{"id":22244,"date":"2025-02-20T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:39:32","slug":"epl-aston-villa-hold-liverpool-to-2-2-thrilling-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22244","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Aston Villa hold Liverpool to 2-2 thrilling draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aston Villa and Liverpool played out an entertaining 2-2 draw in their Premier League encounter on Wednesday, with both teams delivering a thrilling contest at Villa Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liverpool took an early lead in the 29th minute when Mohamed Salah found the back of the net, capitalising on a well-placed assist from Diogo Jota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the home side responded in the 38th minute through Youri Tielemans, who slotted in the equaliser to bring Villa level at 1-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just before halftime, Aston Villa completed their comeback as Ollie Watkins put them ahead in stoppage time (45+3\u2019), finishing off a delivery from Lucas Digne to give the hosts a 2-1 advantage going into the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liverpool, however, were not to be denied. In the 61st minute, Trent Alexander-Arnold levelled the score at 2-2, with Salah registering his first assist of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite both teams pushing for a winner, neither could find the decisive goal, and the match ended with the points shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Culled from <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/epl-aston-villa-hold-liverpool-to-2-2-thrilling-draw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Punch Sports<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa and Liverpool played out an entertaining 2-2 draw in their Premier League encounter on Wednesday, with both teams delivering a thrilling contest at Villa Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3459,223,828],"class_list":["post-22244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-aston-villa","tag-epl","tag-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22246,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/22246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}