Rejuvenated Villa stand in Reds path

London - Liverpool will have to overcome a rejuvenated Aston Villa if they want to book a place in the FA Cup final.

The history between Liverpool and Aston Villa is far more complex, stretching back over 188 matches to 1894 with Liverpool winning almost half their games and Villa only victorious in one of their eight FA Cup meetings.

All of Liverpool's seven FA Cup triumphs have come since the last of Villa's successes in 1957, but Sunday's semi looks a closer call than it did a few weeks ago.