Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa Post match interaction

[VillaTim]

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.

Fair point . Today was still brilliant though.

[PeterWithesShin]

I will say that after years of being utterly shit it's rather splendid to be debating which fantastic performance is better.

[astonvilla82]

Had a few drinks but on such a high, probably have to give up season ticket next year because of distance, but I think we are in good hands

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

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

Agreed. Probably the best performance I’ve ever seen or at least can remember. We battered them 1-0.

[Jon Crofts]

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.

Don’t forget the second of their 2 shots came in the 17th minute.

[Somniloquism]

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.

But when we played City in Dec they had only won one in four in the league which extended to two in seven before they sorted themselves out. Now they are in full flight we lost 4-1.

But Arse form was supposedly them on full flight with only one draw in 2024, were top of the prem and definitely the most inform team in 2024. The only other team to stop them scoring a league goal in 2024, was said inform Citeh who also couldn't score against them.

But I am only putting forward some reasons why today might be 1st rather then 2nd for performance of the season. When we wallop Liverpool in a few weeks time this will probably be mute anyway.

[RichardBatchelor]

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

This. Guardiola for one could learn much about dignity from the great man.

[john e]

In recent history I’ll go with

Man City 1-0  perfect 90 mins of football against the treble winners and best team in the world apparently

Liverpool 7-2 incredible game of finishing against a team who at time couldn’t be beaten

Arsenal   0-2  right up there as one of the best, with an injury and suspension ridden team masterclass second half

[AV84]

I think even Pep gave us our dues after the Man City game in December. They dropped a few points around that time and he said the Villa game was the only one they were actually outplayed in.

[RichardBatchelor]

Rice always seems decent enough to me.

Agreed. His comments are very fair and he comes across as a good bloke.

[RichardBatchelor]

Fantastic performance. Interesting we played better without Luiz .
Tielemans McGinn Rogers all superb and Zaniolo was very good too .

Zaniolo was very good - in the end- but he was dreadful in the first fifteen minutes. To say he ‘grew into the game’ would be an understatement. It doesn’t matter - we were brilliant.

[john2710]

Just got back, what a performance & result. It's days like these that make it all worthwhile.

There were limbs everywhere for the second goal.

[KevinGage]

I think even Pep gave us our dues after the Man City game in December. They dropped a few points around that time and he said the Villa game was the only one they were actually outplayed in.

True. And he did look clueless on the touchline that day. But injuries and a bit too much belief in his own aura had him starting two defenders in midfield that day.

Plus we won it with a deflection. It's still beating the European champions, but there is that.

Against a team going for the title at the business end of the season and with our own well documented injury issues, this feels a bit sweeter.  We nullified them to start with, broke their spirit and then finished them off with a bit of attacking verve.

A big club performance, as Ollie might call it.

[tomd2103]

The second half performance was superb and they just didn't have any answers.  When you think that three of our first choice midfielders were out and Konsa was shifted to RB again, it just makes the performance even better.

Thought Moreno coming on in front of Digne worked well in the latter stages and it added something.

[PaulWinch again]

In recent history I’ll go with

Man City 1-0  perfect 90 mins of football against the treble winners and best team in the world apparently

Liverpool 7-2 incredible game of finishing against a team who at time couldn’t be beaten

Arsenal   0-2  right up there as one of the best, with an injury and suspension ridden team masterclass second half

Yeah agreed although the caveat with the middle one is the Covid weirdness. The other two are higher level displays I think.