Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa Post match interaction

[Somniloquism]

Man City was a more complete performance from us, restricting them to only 2 shots all game. However, this one feels better, given the recent form of both sides, that we were away, and that it was today!

Carlos was a titan in the ManC game too.

And those two shots were in the same move as well. So really we only gave them the one chance all match.

[Somniloquism]

Wasn't Captain Black complaining they should have beaten us at Villa Park by 3 or 4 goal as well? So he reckons they should have beaten us this season 8-1, yet actually lost 3-0.

[PeterWithesShin]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

[Legion]

From the introduction of Leon Bailey on the hour, Villa were genuinely dominant. He happened to score the breakthrough goal but it came towards the natural end of a period of complete supremacy – between the 61st and 87th minutes, Villa scored twice from three shots, hit the crossbar and post from the other, had six corners, 64.4% possession and an 85% pass accuracy; Arsenal had one shot, one corner, a 74% pass accuracy and spent an uncomfortable amount of time in their own defensive third. They have not been made to look so ordinary for such a sustained period all season.

The hosts didn’t even do anything particularly wrong. This performance would have beaten most teams. It just came against and was ruthlessly punished by the best of them outside of the title challengers.

F365

Lovely.

[Legion]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

Agreed. A very close second.

[Clampy]

I said to a mate though when the teams came out, I'm glad  they're playing Gabriel Jesus. He's so overrated.

[Somniloquism]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

For rating them, a factor between that match and today. Then, we had as full a strength side (barring Emi2 and Mings obviously) where they were missing quite a few obvious first teamers, including Rodri, and we were playing at Fortress VP. Today we were missing a shitload more key players and I think Arse were pretty much full strength and playing down there.

[VillaTim]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

For rating them, a factor between that match and today. Then, we had as full a strength side (barring Emi2 and Mings obviously) where they were missing quite a few obvious first teamers, including Rodri, and we were playing at Fortress VP. Today we were missing a shitload more key players and I think Arse were pretty much full strength and playing down there.

They were missing Rodri KDB and Cyborg. It was brilliant but today is on a par for me given their form and being full strength and we were a bit depleted .

[LeeB]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

Agreed. A very close second.

I think this beats it in the context of players available, having played a big game on Thursday and their form.

[Somniloquism]

Man City was better, but this is a close second. No one outplays Man City like we did that day.

For rating them, a factor between that match and today. Then, we had as full a strength side (barring Emi2 and Mings obviously) where they were missing quite a few obvious first teamers, including Rodri, and we were playing at Fortress VP. Today we were missing a shitload more key players and I think Arse were pretty much full strength and playing down there.

They were missing Rodri KDB and Cyborg. It was brilliant but today is on a par for me given their form and being full strength and we were a bit depleted .

They had Cyborg, he just couldn't be found until Konsa emptied his pockets. Doku and Grealish were the other absentees at the time, although common knowledge was the latter deliberately got suspended to miss the match.

[PeterWithesShin]

Man City are likely to win a 4th straight title (6 in 7 years) and possibly a second straight CL. They've lost 1 game in 6 months, us. And we hammered them all game. Arsenal are headed for a 4th year of winning nothing. Man City game all the way for me.

[Matt C]

It was perfection. The way Emery constantly finds solutions to problems is incredible, what other teams would cite as an excuse he just seizes on as another problem to solve.

18 months ago we were outside the relegation zone on goal difference.

[PaulWinch again]

Man City are likely to win a 4th straight title (6 in 7 years) and possibly a second straight CL. They've lost 1 game in 6 months, us. And we hammered them all game. Arsenal are headed for a 4th year of winning nothing. Man City game all the way for me.

Yup agreed. Although the character of this display does add something. We basically haven’t played well for an entire game in 2024, and have looked really shaky defensively. To go to a team who hasn’t been behind in 2024, with the suspensions/injuries we have, and put in such a coherent and high quality display is remarkable.

[Legion]

Let's hope it continues.

[lovejoy]

Piers isn't happy. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1779559247782572115

He’s blocked me so I can’t see it.

Same here. The colossal twat ….   (was probably one of the references which led to him blocking me).