Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

A bit of perspective

Squad depth (lack of) clearly exposed.

Substitutes
Arsenal
Jesus - £50m
Ben White - £50m
Norgaard £10m
Madeuke £50m
Myles-Skelly - Academy

Villa
McGinn £2.5m
Garcia £6m
Malen £21m
Hemmings - Academy
Jimoh-Aloba - Academy

Arse spent a net £263m in the summer.

Arteta's spent a net £900m.

Since Unai arrived, our net spend is €48m
Arsenal have spent €463m in that time.

When Onana went off could' we have put Garcia on at full back and pushed Bogey into midfield alongside Youri?

And replaced Sancho with McGinn to offer protection to Garcia.

Still giving away such a stupidly shitty opening goal was a killer.

Add in Eze and Havertz who were around £65m a pop who were unused subs tonight.

[Legion]

"I never comment on referees, and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."

[OzVilla]

We take it on the chin and move on. This game won’t define season.

[Clampy]

That was their revenge first our last minute goal. Let them have it. We'll be back.

[Small Rodent]

"I never comment on referees, and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."

Who said that? I line it.

[Legion]

"I never comment on referees, and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."

Who said that? I line it.

Ron Atkinson.

[rougegorge]

The referee wasn't the reason we lost tonight.

[andyh]

Massive positives from the first half. We went toe to toe with them.
But a decimated team, and a couple of howlers in the first few minutes of the second half did for us.

I’m calling out Lindelof again, who had a very, very good game and whose integration into the team has been seamless. He was not at fault in any of their goals.

The same can’t be said for Sancho. A wastrel who flatters to deceive and has amassed a fortune and reputation based on fuck knows what.
Sadly, I doubt we will be able to return him in January.

Onto to Forest and the hope it’s the start of another long and glorious run.

[Brazilian Villain]

We take it on the chin and move on. This game won’t define season.

Indeed, I seem to recall we lost to Ipswich 3 times in 80/81.

[Allan C]

Like others I’m not overly upset about the result tonight. We gifted them 3 (possibly 4) of their goals and I thought our first half performance was pretty good. If Watkins scores at least one of his two chances and Rogers pass to Sancho was better it might have been a whole different story. Clearly Merino should have had a second yellow and Saka should have been booked for doing the same trip twice. I’m positive we’ll turn this round and come back stronger

[AGRIPPA]

Never seen such positivity on this thread after a loss…. We all
know where we are….and where we’re going….UTV!!

[Aldridge Villa]

Would have taken two points from Chelsea and Arsenal away so in my eyes mission accomplished. Onwards and upwards.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

We go again!

[PaulWinch again]

Would have taken two points from Chelsea and Arsenal away so in my eyes mission accomplished. Onwards and upwards.

Yep I would have taken one point, so agree. We just need to get a couple of players back and really hit back against Forest.

[Legion]

We'll murderise them.