Liverpool crush beleaguered Villa 6-0

Sturridge’s partnership with Luis Suarez, during the 2013-14 season, lit up the Premier League and boosted Liverpool into their greatest title chase since the turn of the Millennium.

A steady start from both sides but in the 16th minute the reds got the goals rolling when Daniel Sturridge headed in from a cross.

Aston Villa showed signs of promise just before half-time, as patient passing build-up play concluded with a drilled cross from Leandro Bacuna but Mignolet was quick to snuff out the opportunity.

– This was the first time that Liverpool have had six different goalscorers in a single Premier League match. Sturridge’s professional career began at Manchester City in July 2006.

Who? How about Kolo Toure – his first goal in the league for five years – a header from the edge of the 6 yard box. The striker possessed obvious talent and skill and had an abundance of pace to cause damage to some of the league’s strongest defences.

Villa have won two and lost only one of their last five games in the league, after going on an infamous 19 game streak without a win.

Bunn reacted well to keep out Alberto Moreno’s prod towards the bottom corner and he clawed away a bending effort from Sturridge from just inside the area, as Klopp’s team pushed for a third to cement their complete control over proceedings.

The England striker is unlikely to be given better gifts by other teams but the goal was a timely reminder to Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson ahead of Euro 2016.

Liverpool finally have a few important players back from injury.

Carlos Sánchez and Alan Hutton are now fit after overcoming hamstring injuries. It’s up to us to leave them in the mood that they are in the moment.

Sturridge marked his first league start since early October with the opening goal as Liverpool romped to a six-goal rout of hapless bottom club Aston Villa.

“We have two Europa League games coming up, then the League Cup final”.

It was a fortuitous goal and the lead was out of keeping with a game which lacked intensity.

It hasn’t been the most memorable season for Liverpool, but it hasn’t been a bad one either.

Bleacher Report has picked out the winners (surprise: They’re all from Liverpool’s ranks) and losers from Sunday’s one-sided fixture.

In an open letter principal owner John W Henry, Liverpool chairman Tom Werner and FSG president Mike Gordon expressed their concerns, saying they were “particularly troubled by the perception that we don’t care about our supporters, that we are greedy”.

His first injury at Liverpool came during that wonderful season. The goal saw Liverpool go 4-0 up with just 62 minutes on the clock.