Aston Villa v Arsenal Match Thread

[ez]

So far so good. Nicely worked goals. I thought we nullified them towards the end of the half which we need to do.

[Footy-Vill]

Loving Coutinho's hair. It's taken years off him.

Where are you with the colour of Emery's gillet?
Maybe its a lucky one!

[pablo_picasso]

What are people making of Captain McGinns half?
Think he's done a few tackles but not seeing him fit in our play.
Seems bewildered. But then so did Ramsey in recent matches.

He's probably still drunk from his weekend on the lash...

..or more likely, he is just a bit shit.

[olaftab]

Loving Coutinho's hair. It's taken years off him.

Well it certainly taken hairs off him.

[Risso]

Ton Hanks is enjoying the game.

[Hillbilly]

Let's hope that was our shit half.

[Villa Lew]

Arsenal will come out guns firing, we'll need to be up for, well done so far Villa.

[Risso]

Good half but need to tighten up at the back.

[LukeJames]

Ton Hanks is enjoying the game.

Die Villa hinauf Mein Führer!

[brontebilly]

We will see changes second half, can't see Phil lasting past sixty and McGinn short of match practice.

Plenty of options today. Both playing well, giving a lot to the cause without the ball. One player annoying me is Martinez. Fair enough slow the game down in injury time but if either of our CMs are free give them the ball quickly.

[Lastfootstamper]

Quick, turn the sprinklers back on!

[SoccerHQ]

Ton Hanks is enjoying the game.

66 years young and enjoying his first live match at VP.

Wonder if he got a shout out over the tannoy at half time amongst all the other fans.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Arsenal will come out guns firing, we'll need to be up for, well done so far Villa.

Well they are the Gunners.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Must be some secret embargo on us not entering the top half. Just checked the league table and we're still stuck in 11th even if we win!

Really feels like it doesn't it.

Right now I'm not arsed about our league position, I prefer to judge the team on points. Keep raking them in and our league position will take care of itself.

[Mellin]

It's because Fulham, Brentford and Brighton are in equally good form. What's happening is the gap to Liverpool and Chelsea (plus Newcastle and Spurs, but they're miles away) is tightening. Keep going and all of a sudden we'll take a handful of positions.

Big ask though and need to get over the line here first. I remember looking at the the live league table when we were 2-0 up against Wolves with 10 mins left...