Arsenal 0-2 Aston Villa Post match interaction

[Mister E]

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.

Yes, Lee, and in the context of recent form.
This game was awesomeness defined.

[Ian.]

You look at Arsenals form since the start of the year, they haven’t just won they have wiped the floor with everyone. I’d say with how paper thin our squad is, that performance just tops the Man City game.

[Demitri_C]

Still cant believe arteta thinks they should have been r or 5 up at half time. Is he on drugs?

[sid1964]

Fantastic result and performance - I hope that everyone enjoys their Monday

[PaulTheVillan]

That ball from Tielemans through to Watkins was sublime.

[Deano's Mullet]

The passing around at the back was effortless and every time we hit long low passes to midfield /attack I winced but 90% of them went to their intended targets which was absolutely superb.

[Demitri_C]

Still dont understand why arteta had ESR on ollie on that counter attack. Made no sense 😂

[AV84]

Still cant believe arteta thinks they should have been r or 5 up at half time. Is he on drugs?

They did have 4 or 5 really good chances in the first half that on another day all would have ended up in the net. Havertz, Jesus, Saka x2, and whoever it was Martinez made that save from.

[Nev]

As we are capable of throwing in some dreadful performances we are equally adept at yesterdays sort of display. Making one more common than the other is the Managers challenge but that needs the players of a certain quality to play to a certain level. How many times have we said that so and so wasn't at it or below par? That wasn't the case yesterday and the subs were very good as well.

The invitation of the press then having Torres to play through it is key, the energy of SJM and and an above par display by Tielemans had an enormous impact. We were measured and controlled, cut out the silly mistakes and never panicked, particularly in the first half when we were under so much pressure.

It does help that Woolwich always look fragile when the pressure is on and the longer the game went on the less happy they looked, the crowd were quiet and there was no atmosphere at all. This, in part, was behind my prediction of a win (well that and hope) and how wonderful to see those swathes of empty seats long before the end, a world away from the hysterical celebrations that they seem to specialise in following routine victories.

[Ads]

Still cant believe arteta thinks they should have been r or 5 up at half time. Is he on drugs?

They did have 4 or 5 really good chances in the first half that on another day all would have ended up in the net. Havertz, Jesus, Saka x2, and whoever it was Martinez made that save from.

They had 1 really good chance. They also had a couple of balls they put in the side netting, that Emi would have had if on target and they similarly had an Havertz effort Emi saved well that you would expect any keeper to do. He's full of shir, the bitter Lego haired twat, as he had no idea how to change the game 2nd half.

We grew in confidence playing it out, so their 4 centre halves weren't gobbling up everything in the air. Anything that did, Zaniolo held up, dominating Ronseal, so much so he went off.

[PaulTheVillan]

Gary Neville talks about Emery here about 4 minutes in.

His quote about how Emery almost designs an outcome of a game was spot on to what we say yesterday.

https://youtu.be/-zZ79vsnHbk?si=vCCWiIMEgwMutyXe

[AV84]

The point is they did create those chances and with better decisions/finishing they could have scored 4 or 5. So Arteta isn't smoking crack when he says they could/should have scored a few in the first half.

Saka's one into the side netting was definitely going in if he'd pulled it back across the goal.

[RamboandBruno]

Still cant believe arteta thinks they should have been r or 5 up at half time. Is he on drugs?

They did have 4 or 5 really good chances in the first half that on another day all would have ended up in the net. Havertz, Jesus, Saka x2, and whoever it was Martinez made that save from.

They had 1 really good chance. They also had a couple of balls they put in the side netting, that Emi would have had if on target and they similarly had an Havertz effort Emi saved well that you would expect any keeper to do. He's full of shir, the bitter Lego haired twat, as he had no idea how to change the game 2nd half.

We grew in confidence playing it out, so their 4 centre halves weren't gobbling up everything in the air. Anything that did, Zaniolo held up, dominating Ronseal, so much so he went off.

Took the words out of my mouth. They had lots of the ball, they pulled us around a bit, but they only really had the Trossard chance that he should of scored, but Emi made the worldie save. Despite them having much more of the ball, Ollie was unlucky when he hit the post.
Emery acknowledged it might have been different if they went ahead, but they never and we dominated the second half.
Its Arteta bullshit.

[olaftab]

https://x.com/avfcofficial/status/1779567113570590989?s=46

Did John get whisked away for a:
1. Drug test?
2. TV interview?
3. A  well deserved Tikka Masala?

[Olneythelonely]

The point is they did create those chances and with better decisions/finishing they could have scored 4 or 5. So Arteta isn't smoking crack when he says they could/should have scored a few in the first half.

Saka's one into the side netting was definitely going in if he'd pulled it back across the goal.

He didn’t say that could have scored 4/5. He said they should have been 3/4/5-0 up. Which is a nonsense. Considering we can closest to scoring.