Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal Post Match Thread

[LeeB]

Watkins MOTM... He scores and defends.

That bit of play he did around 54 minutes was exceptional.

Same for me, he was fucking awesome. Great win that is.

[Risso]

Ground it out. I know Mings gets some stick but he was imperious today. What a performance!

When he's like that he's brilliant.  It's only ever been the brain farts and stupid mistakes that have been the problem. Cut those out and there's nobody better.

[BC Villain]

]Superb defensively in the second half, but we needed to be.  Midfield was by-passed far too much for me.  Much to ponder for Smith and Co.  Ramsey helped to stem the tide to be fair.  Did well when he came on

[p_ad]

Great to do the double on one of "sky's six" brilliant effort

[Nev]

Better subs today. Helped us over the line. Not sure what Barkley's beef is but he's not doing enough for me

[saint13]

Good result.

Watkins was excellent.

The midfield is still not right and if Barkley wants to avoid having a tantrum when being subbed he might try running around a bit more for the preceding 80 minutes.

[manic-road]

Fantastic 3 points against an improving Arsenal team, the back four were exceptional again today.

[nordenvillain]

Conceded far too much territory and ball to Arsenal. Thought Mings, Cash and Watkins had great games.  Barkley needs to realise that he can't stroll around in this team, look at the shift Watkins put in.

[Risso]

Fuck me that second half was stressful, I thought we defended brilliantly but they did a similar number on us as West Ham did in restricting our attacking play second.

Excellent result.

Seemed to me that we had 3 or 4 really good chances second half at least.

[baddowvillans]

Was I watching a different game to the commentators "hanging on at the end"  In every stage of the game we had the better chances in including the last 15 minutes?

[London Villan]

I think Barkley knows he isnt playing well, real lack if energy in his game.

[Villan For Life]

A great win with a massive improvement on Wednesday night which is just what we needed.

[TopDeck113]

Relatively comfortable in the end.  Would have liked a second to calm the nerves.

Strange season - one point from four games against West Ham and Burnley; the double over Arsenal.

[Deano's Mullet]

Amayzin! Some downers at times this season but on the whole a great season so far. Eleven wins is one better at this stage that in both 92-93 and 1995-96.

[andyh]

That was nerve shredding.
They dominated possession for large parts of the game but we created by far the better chances.
Some great battling performances today, and the back 5 were magnificent, to a man.