Aston Villa have appeared to troll Liverpool with an immaculately-timed tweet about having little choice but to field a weakened side.
Their official Twitter account posted a picture of the very youthful Villa side sent out to face Liverpool in the FA Cup third round last season after a Covid-19 outbreak at the training ground wiped out their entire first-team squad.
16 debuts were handed out that day with Villa fielding a starting line-up with seven under-23 players and four from the under-18s. Five others came off the bench to make debuts.