The final away day for Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager ended with a 3-3 draw at Aston Villa as his sideconceded twice late on to be held.

After Youri Tielemans had cancelled out an early own goal from Emi Martinez, Cody Gakpo and Jarell Quansah gave the Reds a two-goal cushion before substitute Jhon Duran turned it around late on with a mixture of skill and fortune.

The ECHO was of course at the game to provide its usual mix of player ratings, big-match verdict and full-time analysis pieces but our colleagues from the national media were also on hand to give their own considered takes. Here's what they made of it.

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The Independent's Rich Jolly writes: "There was a twist on a theme: late goals and comebacks have been a staple of Liverpool’s season. This time they suffered from them, Aston Villa scoring twice in four late minutes. Eight days earlier, they had led 4-0 against Tottenham and risked only drawing. Amid a lack of control, each told a tale: the loss of leads in two games against Manchester United, in the FA Cup and the Premier League, are why Klopp’s reign will end at Anfield on Sunday with a celebration, but without anything at stake.

"But there was something fitting in the way Klopp’s penultimate game was a thriller. His has been a hugely entertaining ride; it is why Liverpool have enjoyed it even without knowing the destination. A more pragmatic manager with a duller style of play could be judged on trophies alone; Klopp won everything he entered – apart from the Europa League where, long before he reached Villa, Unai Emery denied him in the 2016 final – but not always.

"But he turned matches into events. He bent many of them to his will. Yet sometimes the wild nature of it all meant Liverpool suffered amid the anarchy and the jeopardy. The excitement threatened to be their undoing. One of Klopp’s first great games, three months into his reign, was a 3-3 draw with Arsenal. Perhaps his last will be a 3-3 draw with Aston Villa. But there has been a sense of electricity and urgency, a non-stop drama, plenty of glorious games.

"There are ways of assessing the Klopp years. In a sense, it ends as it starts: his second team, like his first, has been built from the front, forever capable of scoring. In the 27 years before Klopp’s arrival, Liverpool had only scored 80 league goals in one season. They have done so in five campaigns under the German. Yet Villa’s three goals make it 41 conceded this season: in Klopp’s three best seasons, Liverpool were defensively outstanding, conceding a mere 22 goals in 2018-19, 33 the following year and 26 in 2021-22. In those three seasons, they were either the world’s best or very close."

The Daily Mail's Lewis Steele pens: "Just like that, Jurgen Klopp has one game left as Liverpool boss. His last away trip might have had little riding on it from a Reds perspective but the visitors’ star-studded line-up showed just how much the German has transformed the team.

"The XI he fielded in his first away game, at Tottenham in October 2015, was: Simon Mignolet; Nathaniel Clyne, Martin Skrtel, Mamadou Sakho, Alberto Moreno; Lucas Leiva, Emre Can; James Milner, Adam Lallana, Philippe Coutinho; Divock Origi. Contrasting careers for some of those, but it is clear Klopp has improved every area at Liverpool.

"Aston Villa are not short of celebrity fans — with heir to the throne Prince William here at the last home game. On Monday night was Hollywood royalty, as Tom Hanks watched the action. Thought he might have been a Forrest fan. Speaking of Hanks, one player who seems to be cast away at the moment is Darwin Nunez, who again was on the Liverpool substitutes’ bench.

"It followed a bizarre week in which he stormed off the Anfield pitch after the win over Tottenham and deleted all Liverpool-related photographs from his Instagram. The Uruguay striker might have been well-placed to take out his notepad and keep a close eye on Ollie Watkins."

Over on The Telegraph, Chris Bascombe muses: "As the nine minutes of added time was announced at Villa Park, the tension was palpable. Not from the Aston Villa fans, who having come back from 3-1 down sensed an opportunity to grab the victory which would secure Champions League football.

"Not from the visiting Liverpool supporters, who were as demob happy as their manager and those away players who came to Birmingham to have a bit of fun with the ball while making it optional to show the necessary application necessary to win it back.

"All the nervous anxiety was being transmitted from 100 miles away in North London as Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur supporters found themselves in the peculiar position of being on common ground, fearing a late Villa winner.

"For Ange Postecoglou, the last chance of making the top four looked like it would be snuffed out every time Liverpool generously gifted possession on the edge of their penalty area."

In the ECHO's analysis of the game, Ian Doyle wrote: "It was wholly appropriate that Jurgen Klopp’s away adventure should come to an end at Villa Park. The stadium, after all, has hosted some of the most memorable, mystifying and frankly maddening road trips for Liverpool during the past decade.

"Chief among them was the dramatic victory in November 2019 when late goals from Robertson and Sadio Mane earned a 2-1 triumph that ultimately set the Reds on their way to a first championship in 30 years.

"At the other end of the spectrum came the 7-2 thrashing behind closed doors less than a year later, as comical as it was costly. Plus, of course, there was the match Liverpool were compelled to play without their senior team in the League Cup quarter-final in December 2019 and then, the next season, it was Villa who were without their first-choice side in a coronavirus-affected FA Cup third round tie.

"And while there was nothing riding on it for the visitors – third place was guaranteed after title challengers Manchester City and Arsenal won at the weekend – this fixture will again have a place in the annals. Now there’s just Anfield next Sunday. Bring your hankies, folks – it’s going to be emotional."