Aston Villa v Liverpool: 'Benteke a powerful boy'

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    Brendan Rodgers knows his Liverpool side will face a tough task against Christian Benteke and Aston Villa on Saturday.

    Liverpool travel to Villa Park for the Barclays Premier League fixture on the back of an impressive 1-0 win against Stoke City in their opener last week, but Rodgers feels they will have their hands full trying to stop a young Villa side that have also started well.

    Paul Lambert's men won 3-1 at Arsenal on the opening day, and were unlucky to suffer a narrow 2-1 defeat at Chelsea on Wednesday. Benteke scored three goals in those two matches and was a thorn in the side of Liverpool last term. The Belgium forward, scored three times in the two Barclays Premier League fixtures against Liverpool in the 2012-13 campaign and Rodgers has warned his defence to be wary of the threat posed by the 22-year-old, as well as his team-mates, this time around.

    "There's no doubt Benteke is the reference point for the team - the ball goes up to him and he holds it up well. He's a big, powerful boy," the Liverpool manager said. "I very much expect for them to have a very good season.

    "They are very much a counter-attacking team that set up to defend half a pitch and then break out with the pace of Benteke, [Gabriel] Agbonlahor in particular and young Andreas Weimann on the side. But our focus is really on our own game. We know the form we're in and with the mentality and confidence of the players it should be a really good game."

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