Match Reaction Villa v ARSENAL - Sat 20th Sep 15:00

[Niall_Quinn]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Marc Overmars]

An easy, energy conserving win.

Good stuff.

[Globalgunner]

Easy peasy. Glad for the 3 points, but where was this team on Tuesday. we are well on our way to 4th place. I hope.

[Power n Glory]

Nice!! Keep it up lads.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Turned up for four minutes, got the win. Great stuff really.

[Niall_Quinn]

For 5 minutes we got the ball and played it FORWARD at pace, we had runners, we had men getting into the box - like any normal team plays. We overwhelmed them and bagged 3 goals. For the rest of the time we did that thing we do. Yes 3 points, yes a win, no, anything but a good performance. We will average, average, average, average out to a 4th place finish again and it's highly possible we won't get a cumulative 90 mins entertainment over the course of the entire season. We got the points but ultimately football is pointless when it is played like this.

[The Dismantler]

my punditry:======> pace of game died down a bit after those three quick goals in first half, welbeck and ozil linked up well up front, hope they carry on like that, villa could ov been right back in the game had they nicked just one in.....erm, defence is still shit, oh ...and wenger out!

[Master Splinter]

Good win at a title rival but disappointing not to score more.

I find the desire to not score from all involved more annoying than just playing like morons as we did on Tuesday. A great chance to rack up the goal difference, for new players to score, for the team to fully gel as an attacking unit and to gain some momentum and confidence just went by the wayside. It wouldn't exactly wear us out in a game where the opponent is gone and we could just have brought on three subs earlier to freshen it up. We haven't truly battered an opponent in ages and we should look to bolster the goal difference to get into the habit.

Welbz was excellent for the 15-minute or so period of decent football. Ozil's touch and radar was back and he actually looked confident. Gibbs is brilliant. Ramsey terrible but still produces killer passes and is usually involved in all the decisive moves.

#coylein

[Syn]

Better result than it seems. We were lucky to catch them when they had a virus going around and players were missing. It could've been a very different game if not for a couple of moments of class by Ozil. Once we pulled away they didn't seem bothered in wasting energy trying to catch us.

Nice to have Welbeck off the mark too.

[Niall_Quinn]

Forgot about the virus - ebola judging by the way they competed.