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IIRC we actually play Chelsea during the ban too

Also nice of them to wait until the Christmas period to do it

Without going into too much detail, you’ve both played four of the “Big Six” and both have a 0 goal difference. You’ve played Brighton and Fulham - they’ve only played Fulham. Similar fixtures I presume. I do think the CL has had an effect.

This is a bit more like how Villa set up v us - compact and further back, looking to intercept and break. Wonder if it’s a shuffle after McGinn came on.

Feels like both teams are just playing on the edge of a goal-conceding rick.

Curtis Jones is such a good little player.

Oh that was very much a child of circumstance but hilarious. Nobody has been that ever.

Jesus. Nunez is a parody of himself.

I’ve not seen too much of Villa other than our games, and like I say Emery has been (I think overly) cautious against us. We got a lot of joy by winning possession in their half rather than cutting them open on the break like this. It feels like he’s let them be far more open tonight and it looks great when they are attacking but it leaves them so vulnerable on the break. If this is how they normally play then yeah, it’s more like Angeball tbh. Oof. Should have scored that.

Injury-prone players notwithstanding, it does feel like an inevitable by-product of playing so many high-tempo games. The anomaly is how few injuries Arsenal got last year.

Really enjoyable end-to-end game.

I feel like they’re just not playing too well tonight and Villa are doing a good job. They’re better than this, but yeah, not like peak City

that wasn’t weirdly open, we were just shit, tired and didn’t really care and they were rested and massively up for it. I actually advised people to bet against us beforehand. Listen to any Spurs podcast, we’d have been happy to give them a 3-0’and not play it.

I’d have to watch our last two games again to figure out the difference, but it’s weird how differently Villa play against us than they are playing here. It’s genuinely as if Emery is scared of us - he sets up so much more defensively every time. If he set up and had Villa playing like this against us I feel like they’d be much more successful.

It’s so weirdly open.