Aston Villa welcome Liverpool to Villa Park on Monday night knowing that a win will secure a spot in next season’s Champions League. It has been a disappointing couple of weeks for Villa, with a league defeat away at Brighton sandwiched between losses home and away against Olympiacos to see them crash out of the Europa Conference League. The latest of the European semi-final defeats came on Thursday night, as Unai Emery‘s side struggled in their efforts to claw back a 4-2 first-leg deficit and ended the night going out with a whimper with a 2-0 defeat in Greece. Villa’s players have looked fat…
