Arne Slot’s hotly controversial decision to heavily rotate his squad for the midweek Carabao Cup exit was vindicated on Saturday night, as Liverpool romped to a 2–0 victory at home to Aston Villa in arguably their most energetic performance of the season.
Nine of the starting XI which smothered the life out of Unai Emery’s visitors were not involved in any capacity during Wednesday’s limp loss to Crystal Palace. Mohamed Salah seemed to have notably benefitted from a week of preparation and duly opened the scoring.
