Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa Post match interaction

[Nev]

Odegard and Saka vanished after the break, I maintain the latter is overrated anyway.

I can't be having Peter Drury so had a commentary team of Jim Proudfoot and Matt Holland. Excellent, balanced and non-hysterical. I think Proudfoot has a soft spot for us from his time at BRMB.

[Goldenballs]

He's such a class act when you compare him to the unpleasantness of some other managers.

[LeeB]

Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
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1h
Arsenal’s lack of a proper striker has come back to haunt us. So many chances in first half, but none taken. If Watkins was playing for us, we’d have won this 3-0.

Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
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1h
FFS.
We’ve choked again. Unbelievable

I think he is right.

If they still had Unai and Emi they'd be running away with it and would've won last year as well.

[Richard E]

I’ve got to be truthful, the knowledge that Blose are getting a £3 billion new stadium has sucked  all of the joy out of today’s result for me.

[ChicagoLion]

It shows that he also managed to get a message over to them at half time.
We looked so confident in the second half.

[AV84]

The press/public are latching onto how good Watkins is, fair enough, but it's lazy to overlook the rest of the team many of whom have had great seasons. And give Unai 11 average-joes and he'd make them over-perform.

I was just looking at Ollie's stats and thinking he must be a serious contender for player of the season for the whole league. But then I started thinking he's not guaranteed player of the season just for Villa, so many of them have had such a good season.

[Demitri_C]

What makes me laugh is arteta saying they should ahve 3 or 4 up, i mean its not like we didnt hit the post and then the crossbar and post in one move. If anything its us that should have been 4 up

[AV82EC]

Odegard and Saka vanished after the break, I maintain the latter is overrated anyway.

I can't be having Peter Drury so had a commentary team of Jim Proudfoot and Matt Holland. Excellent, balanced and non-hysterical. I think Proudfoot has a soft spot for us from his time at BRMB.

I had them as well, very balanced and knowledgable.

[Richard E]

Odegard and Saka vanished after the break, I maintain the latter is overrated anyway.

I can't be having Peter Drury so had a commentary team of Jim Proudfoot and Matt Holland. Excellent, balanced and non-hysterical. I think Proudfoot has a soft spot for us from his time at BRMB.

I’m glad it’s not just me then about Saka.

[ChicagoLion]

I’ve got to be truthful, the knowledge that Blose are getting a £3 billion new stadium has sucked  all of the joy out of today’s result for me.

It’s difficult to enjoy a result when you are rattled.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Well I enjoyed that.

Arteta is the least gracious manager in the League, so delighted to beat him twice. And there can be no arguments, we were the better team today.

Can Watkins break the 20 goal curse for us?

[LeeB]

What makes me laugh is arteta saying they should ahve 3 or 4 up, i mean its not like we didnt hit the post and then the crossbar and post in one move. If anything its us that should have been 4 up

He's such a wanker, I'm delighted with his comments as I've no need to reevaluate my opinion of his as a result.

[brontebilly]

A bit more like it from Deco:

Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice, speaking to Sky Sports: "It's tough, really tough to take.

"Especially with the chances we had in the first half, the spaces there was. We had to take one of them because in the Premier League, teams will come back to bite you and hurt you.

"That's what Villa did in the second half."

"We've been so dominant in games but Villa have got some unbelievable players, technically unreal and Ollie up front is a constant goal threat.

"If you can't win games of football, don't lose. Look up at the clock with 15 to go and it's 0-0, if you aren't going to win then you take a point, especially in these situations.

"So to lose is a real kick in the teeth."

He lost Bailey for our first and went AWOL for our second. Can't stand him

[PaulWinch again]

Rice always seems decent enough to me.

[pablo_picasso]

Fabulous result.

And while positive results shouldn't matter about the performance at this stage, the performance was also magnificent.

Defensively sound first half, despite lego heads insistence that they should have been 3 or more up at HT (you weren't. Tit.), we dominated second half with a couple of cracking goals & 3 posts hit in 2 shots.

And considering we are down to the bare bones player wise, massive credit has to go to both the players on the pitch, but more importantly, the manager for his game-plan.

Fucking wonderful.