Formations
The hosts lined up almost identically to how they setup against Norwich City last weekend, Rodgers stuck to his 3-5-2 layout and only made one alteration, which was forced due to Christian Benteke’s hamstring injury, Danny Ings came in alongside Sturridge. The midfield trio was Milner, Coutinho and Lucas Leiva, which was flanked by Nathaniel Clyne and Alberto Moreno. While the backline consisted of Mamadou Sakho, Martin Skrtel and Emre Can, with Simon Mignolet in goals.
Under fire Villa boss Sherwood also had to make some forced changes, none more important than Gestede in for Agbonlahor up-front. The inclusion of Idrissa Gueye at the cost of Carles Gil meant an alteration to the formation was imperative, that saw the Midlands club field a 4-3-3 with Jack Grealish being the one to move from the middle into the frontline.
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