Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Ger Regan]

Onana going off totally changed it, carved apart from then on. Next.

[cdbearsfan]

We always win eleven games in a row after a defeat so not overly concerned.

[rob_bridge]

We go again with our 2 best.players back om Saturday.

First half done well.

Arsenal better but still Roger Black of Premier League

[BoVillan esq]

Chelsea and Man U dropped points so chin up everyone. Need to bounce back at the weekend (whenever that is).

Yeah and I couldn't give a hoot about Arsenal, they won't win the league title.

[CT Villan]

Disappointing drop-off in the second-half.

It wasn't the reason we lost but Merino should have received a second yellow and walked - the ref was also poor.

[PaulWinch again]

Was always going to be really tough, but disappointing collapse in the second half after a solid first half.

That said we were always going to lose eventually and the absences, including Onana at half-time, were massive. Need to bounce back at the weekend.

[AlexAlexCropley]

It's one of them where I'm absolutely not down hearted. Better side most of the first half. Nice to bring on two of our youths.J-A will be a baller.

[AndyB6]

Shame we didn’t get to see how we’d get on against 10 at 2-0

100%!!!

[Herman]

Chelsea and Man Utd both dropping points. That makes this result not as bad as it could have been. We're third, and have a decent cushion. Beat Forest at the weekend and forget about this result.

[Nev]

The squad is too thin, we know that but:

Martinez and Sancho were both weak, allowing them to get ahead. The ref then bottles the second yellow, and with all that it was an uphill battle and we weren't quite up to it.

But let me be the first to congratulate Woolwich on winning the title again at Christmas.

[Olneythelonely]

Martinez chucked another on in, that combined with Onana going off completely killed our plan.

We’ll beat Forest.

[FranzBiberkopf]

Agreed with those that say losing Onana was the killer. Out midfield in the second half was anonymous without his presence.

All four goals were gifts. Martinez obviously was a howler. But Sancho, Fine and Garcia were all guilty of mistakes for the others (not strong enough).

Still onwards..Ever onwards.

[AV82EC]

These things will naturally come to an end. We just couldn’t compete in that 15 mins after half time and we just didn’t have the bench to change it. Ah well, back home, regroup and on to Forest on Saturday, no point trying to dissect it, we got blown away in about 20 minutes. For games like that you need your first XI and decent subs, we had neither. Onwards….

[Halfway to Moseley]

We are a better team going forward but with a weaker keeper and defence. They’re not a champion team.

Yep, champions don’t get sliced open again and again like they were in the first half. The league is Man City’s to lose this year.

[BoVillan esq]

It happens, i refuse to see this game as an end of year pasting, seriously, we stepped aside a little, but cometh the weekend cometh the Villa.