Liverpool Draw Aston Villa In The FA Cup

Liverpool will travel to the Midlands in January as both Premier
League clubs enter the cup in the third round

This is it, the moment you have all been waiting for. What’s
that? No this isn’t about Thiago miraculously being fit. But he
might be fit for when Liverpool enter the FA cup in
January after Liverpool found out their opponents as the Premier
League teams enter in the third round.

Being Liverpool, of course, they weren’t drawn against a lower
tier side, or even the local Non-League wonder team, Marine FC. No, instead, Liverpool
were drawn against a Premier League side for the fourth year in a
row. The last three years, the Reds played Everton,
Wolves, and Everton again. This time around, the Reds were drawn
against Aston Villa.

Liverpool will travel to the Midlands for the game slated to be
the weekend of January 9th. It could provide Liverpool an
opportunity to excise some demons after the laughable 7-2 defeat
earlier this season (assuming you haven’t blocked it out of your
memory).

Liverpool also did not fare so well against the Villans the last
time the met in a cup competition. You may remember the 5-0
drubbing in last year’s EFL Cup quarterfinal clash of a literal men against boys. Liverpool’s U23
manager fielded a squad that day with an average age of 19.48 years
old as Jurgen Klopp and the senior team were away in Doha for the
FIFA Club World Cup.

While a win and progression in a cup competition sounds nice,
Liverpool will be coming off of a brutal month and a half stretch
of playing twice a week. More than anything, let’s just hope that
Liverpool will have enough senior team players fit to field a
squad.