Birmingham used to produce a well-known band called DURAN DURAN.

A young Colombian gave it entirely new significance on Monday night when Jhon Duran scored a lethal late double to shock Liverpool and reclaim what might have been a crucial point for Unai Emery’s team.

Villa was down 3-1 when Emery threw him in after 79 minutes, but boy, did his Hail Mary work!

Duran became ‘Notorious,’ on Merseyside, and a cult figure in B6 after scoring twice in three incredible minutes.

Alive on Sky TV Even Jurgen Klopp has hardly seen an amazing ending like Duran’s in his eight and a half years in charge.

Before Duran Duran hit the stage in front of Hollywood A-lister and Villa fan Tom Hanks with his “Goals on film!” his team was looking strong for three points.

Eight years and 209 days after his debut away game at Spurs, Klopp packed his overnight bag for the last time as Liverpool manager and left for Villa Park for his 238th and last away game.

Generally speaking, Liverpool has had success there, winning eight of their previous nine top-flight games.

The one exception, though, is still one of the few times Klopp, while in charge of Anfield, made a glaring mistake.

October 2020’s Premier League club record 7-2 loss to Dean Smith’s Villa must rank as an unanticipated blot on the German’s record.

That bizarre outcome has to be among the weirdest of Klopp’s tenure, and for a while it appeared that we would have a similarly crazy evening here.

Motion picture A-lister Hanks had hardly seated before the foolery started.

Emi Martinez dropped a rare clanger to give Liverpool the lead in their first assault, so it began from the unlikeliest of places.

The popular film Catch Me If You Can stars Hanks, and Martinez must have wished he had done the same easy thing with the ball!

Harvey Elliott gained progress behind Lucas Digne and completed a clean one-two with Mo Salah on the right to get the ball going.

Elliott’s cross pinched off Pau Torres, but it was the tiniest of deflections, and for a goalie this confident, that should have meant a simple adjustment.

Martinez, however, fumbled at it like a drunken man chasing a balloon, letting the ball escape through his gloves as he fell backward.

You would have favored the World Cup winner to bounce back even then.

But in an amazing own goal, he somehow managed to bobble the loose ball with his outstretched glove and knock it agonisingly over his own goalline as he went back to try and retrieve it.

Elliott appeared too humiliated to even acknowledge the bizarre own goal he had unintentionally helped with, while Youri Tielemans dropped his head in his hands.

Liverpool scented blood and Villa was understandably rocked.

Salah cut inside Digne as though the former Everton player was not there, but his shot swerved off Torres for a corner.

Then, with Liverpool applying the pressure, Cody Gakpo crossed over.

Moussa Diaby got Villa up the pitch to set up Leon Bailey for a cutback, but Trent Alexander-Arnold put pressure on the Jamaican winger, and Bailey missed.

Martinez made a fingertip save to block Luis Diaz’s header from Salah’s cross, doing his hardest to atone in some little measure.

Then Villas were leveled out of nowhere.

John McGinn received a poor delivery from Elliott that struck a Villa defender and he threaded a pass through to Ollie Watkins.

The England striker charged forward with such menace that he fronted up young Jarrell Quansah, slowing him down and then, in an electrifying burst of speed, quickening up again to kill him.

Watkins had the common sense to draw the ball back past the penalty area after he had gotten around the back of the Reds defence.

And Tielemans was rushing in to smash the ball low past Alisson and three defenders.

It was Watkins’ thirteenth Premier League assist of an incredible season and a magnificent equaliser.

Villa Park was vibrating, as Quansah blocked Bailey as he twisted and spun in the box.

But Liverpool eventually retook the lead midway through this incredible half.

When Salah played in Diaz, who moved the ball wide to Joe Gomez, the left-back swept in a low cross that Martinez could only barely touch.

That left the in-rushing Cody Gakpo with the most basic tap-ins.

But before the goal was eventually given, VAR Chris Kavanagh examined for TWO suspected offsides, so Liverpool had to sweat it out for a few anxious minutes.

Really, Villa ought to have responded quickly, but astonishingly, they missed the opportunity of a lifetime—32 years after Ronnie Rosenthal missed the century-long shot at the same stadium.

Konsa sent the ball to Bailey, who eliminated Alisson, and Watkins was on his way to a straightforward tap-in at the far post.

The striker was horrified, though, as Diego Carlos snipped in front of him and poked the ball from one yard out of a gaping goal!

Opta claims Carlos’s XG factor was 0.96, which means he should have scored 96 times out of 100 tries from that range.

Three minutes after the restart, Liverpool, having weathered that fright, gave themselves the comfort of a two goal advantage.

Elliott hit a lengthy free kick, and Digne was guilty of ball watching as Quansah slipped in behind him to head past Martinez.

When Tielmans sent Bailey and Diaby racing clear after 52 minutes, Villa believed they had retaliated.

Bailey set up Watkins for the goal, and the striker rejoiced to become the first Villa player to record 20 goals in the Premier League—that is, until VAR got involved.

The Jamaican was furious that no one had told him Diaby was in a better position to take the ball after Bailey was found to be marginally offside.

Watkins attempted a backheel that did not work to draw Alisson out.

Then Diaz broke away and squared to Elliott, who just beat Salah to bundle the ball home, but VAR disqualified yet another “goal.”

Villa astonishingly persisted and, with five minutes left, got one back to make it 3-2.

After Callum Chambers, a substitute, robbed Alexis Mac Allister, the ball went to Jhon Duran, whose deft first touch allowed him to drive his effort from the edge of the box past Alisson.

Then Darwin Nunez sped clear to score at the opposite end, but VAR called it offside.

Amazingly, Duran got the final word, adding a second to level the score at 88.

Bailey broke upfield, and Alisson was blown away by his pass as it sailed past him.