Aston Villa v Arsenal Post Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Arteta, “Arsenal did enough to beat Aston Villa” - erm nope you didn’t, you didn’t score any goals Mikel. You need to score goals to win games.

[Axl Rose]

22 is the magic number.

Do that, and we're champions.

22 wins? I would say 25-26, no?

22 more wins, perhaps? (Win every game remaining)

[Jon Crofts]

Apparently it’s PGMOL that’s punishing Arteta.

[Astral Weeks]

For those of us who have been on this place for a good while, and been through some fucking miserable weeks and post match threads, this really feels rather brilliant doesn’t it?

Quite right. It’s been a rollercoaster since the M’ON days - but for those here before - even the O’Leary days. The appointments of McLeish, Gerrard, DiMatteo.

We have suffered, we witnessed the lows of relegation, the season where we only won 3 games. The near misses such as Fulham in the play off final. The confusion of trying to work out how to follow Villa matches in the Championship.

The highs of winning the play off final, surviving relegation in the last day of the season, pushing to mid table, losing Grealish and having to rebuild. The sadness and the emotion of saying goodbye to Dean Smith… the excitement of Emery.

And throughout all of this, we have been here - and many on H&V throughout this. Sharing in these moments.

This might be another summit in the rollercoaster of being a Villa fan - but it’s that humbleness that we developed throughout the last few seasons that makes this all the sweeter.

The last year has been one hell of a ride - just watching “the awakening” when people started picking up on our form as being potentially Champions League.

I don’t know where this goes, but I am going to enjoy this ride. We are back, we have suffered and it makes these moments all the sweeter.

Up the Villa!!!

Great post, Chris. I've been there, and I agree with every word.

[Smirker]

22 is the magic number.

Do that, and we're champions.

22 wins? I would say 25-26, no?

Yep usually has to be the high 20s.

[AV82EC]

Great gritty performance, Arsenal got on top of us but tbf didn’t really create much of note and Emi didn’t have too much to do.

3rd in the table and onwards to Thursday where hopefully a B team can do a job against Zrinjski.

[Meanwood Villa]

One of our poorer performances but we got the job done. Incredible we've had two 1-0s against two of best teams in the league when we couldn't keep a clean sheet for toffee most of the season.

[Richard E]

Arsenal might have had more chance if Saka had tried to play football rather than spending 90% of the game lying on the floor whinging for free kicks.

[tomd2103]

Not long been back in after being at the game earlier.  Started really well and scored a great goal, but found it hard to keep the ball after that.  Thought they started to really threaten in the early stages of the second half, but I thought the substitutions worked and we looked more comfortable in the closing stages even though we had a number of players who looked exhausted.

Arsenal have become a pretty unlikeable team to be honest.  The way they surrounded the ref during the game reminded me of their teams from the late 80’s / early 90’s when Tony Adams used to lead a pack of them haranguing officials.  Saka and Jesus spent large parts of the game rolling around on the floor as well.

[PaulWinch again]

22 is the magic number.

Do that, and we're champions.

22 wins? I would say 25-26, no?

Yep usually has to be the high 20s.

It’s going to have to be way more than 22.

[maidstonevillain]

Are we safe from relegation yet ...😁

Mathematically, not yet I don't think. But this is the first Prem season since the O'Neill days where the thought hasn't crossed my mind.

Messaging a Palace fan. I told him not to worry, because 30 points will probably be enough to stay up. But I did add in so we are safe already. And that was before the Arsenal game.

[Percy McCarthy]

Apparently it’s PGMOL that’s punishing Arteta.

Serves him right.

[Richard E]

Magic number means the number of further wins you need.

[Risso]

Arsenal might have had more chance if Saka had tried to play football rather than spending 90% of the game lying on the floor whinging for free kicks.

Absolutely. I imagine it’ll take the ground staff a few days to get Saka’s body prints out of the turf, the cheating little turd.

[littleoldme]

Just remember, 1-0 to the arsenal, they don't like it up em do they