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Aston Villa face a trip to Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Villans will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 54 and win only 14 of the 84 games.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in April 2006, with Liverpool running out comfortable 3 - 1 winners in a Premiership match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2005/2006 | Sat 29 Apr | Liverpool | 3 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 05 Nov | Aston Villa | 0 - 2 | Liverpool | PREM |
| 2004/2005 | Sun 15 May | Liverpool | 2 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2004/2005 | Sat 04 Dec | Aston Villa | 1 - 1 | Liverpool | PREM |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 10 Jan | Liverpool | 1 - 0 | Aston Villa | PREM |
| 2003/2004 | Sun 24 Aug | Aston Villa | 0 - 0 | Liverpool | PREM |
| 2002/2003 | Sat 11 Jan | Liverpool | 1 - 1 | Aston Villa | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Liverpool are unbeaten in their last six home games, winning five of them, and drawing the other one. These high-scoring games have yielded a total of 15 goals for the Reds, with 7 goals against.
The Villans have had a decent run of form away from home recently, unbeaten in the last six, but with four of them resulting in draws. The Villans's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 8 goals for and 6 against.
Liverpool see themselves just below half way in the Barclays Premiership, showing a record of 11 points from their 9 games played so far, Aston Villa's 15 points from 9 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 7th position.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Liverpool | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Aston Villa | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 12 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
A creditable return from recent away games for Villans could well see them head back from Anfield with a share of the spoils, think the FootyMad panel. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Liverpool | Unbeaten in the last 12 home games. Not drawn a match in their last 3 . |
| Aston Villa | Undefeated in last 6 away games. 13 games since last defeat. |