Match Reaction: Watford 0 Arsenal 3

[Marc Overmars]

3 points and up into 2nd place.

Not the best of performances from our guys. Really shaky from Merts, Ramsey was off but at least finally got a goal, Ozil got two assists but didn't play anywhere close to what he played against Utd...Theo started bright and you'd have thought he was close to breaking their offside but it never happened....we just lost control of the middle of the park and they had run where they just kept on hitting us after the opening 20. 2nd half we got it together and made it comfortable but this is one of those games where it could have gone really wrong so it's hard to judge. The effort and sharpness we saw against Utd just wasn't there and the 2nd defensive display where we looked solid was off as well. Happy about the result but disappointed with the performance if I'm totally honest.

I thought Ozil was decent actually. Well, he started slow like the rest of them but grew into it. He's so much better when he decides to arrive into advanced positions because 9 times out of 10 he picks the right pass.

I don't think the performance was that bad really, underwhelming after the United blitz sure, but I never felt as though we didn't have a grasp of things. Plenty of bluster from Watford but aside from when Ighalo was clean through and shanked it wide, we weren't riding our luck. We defended really well.