text: Lambert: Anfield win ´long gone´ - Soccerway
  Lambert: Anfield win ´long gone´
  28 March 2013 19:16
  Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert says December's 3-1 victory at Anfield will count for nothing when they host Liverpool on Sunday.
  Villa put in one of their best performances of the season that day and will fancy their chances of completing a double over Brendan Rodgers' side after winning two consecutive league games for the first time.
  Although the former Norwich manager admitted his side are in good shape going into Sunday's match, he is refusing to get carried away.
  "The Anfield game has long gone, it's finished. It will have no bearing on what happens now.
  "The fact we've won the last two games is something more to take into it than what we did at Liverpool. But, in the last few weeks, we've played really well. We're playing well enough to try and win it on Sunday.
  "I want to try to win it. Someone has just told me it will be the first time since 2009/10 if we win three in a row. We're only four points from 11th. One or two wins and you pull clubs back into it."
  Like Villa, Liverpool have one of the youngest squads in the Premier League, but Lambert insisted the Reds have enough quality in their ranks to make life very difficult for his side.
  "We're going to have to play very well to win," he continued. "They have some top players; world-class players. Not just (Luis) Suarez, but (Steven) Gerrard, (Jamie) Carragher - guys who have won European Cups and World Cups.