A) really should be a given. Liverpool are starting Henderson, Milner and Keita in midfield, and they're one of the best teams in the world. All those three players can do is run, but they do their part.

Well played Lacazette

Aubameyang yellow for barging a villa player off the ball but he ran back because he knew 4 of our players were out of the game as Villa broke.

Lacazette with hopefully only some cramp, looks like he's coming off - he's been outstanding. No surprise Lacazette only lasted 65 minutes given his lack of minutes and the shift he's put in

Hugely impressed with how Lacazette has played himself back into the starting eleven. Excellent sub appearance against Palace, and possibly our best player today. Anyone who thought he would run down his contract and not be bothered was sorely mistaken.

Which Ode will turn up?
Will the intensity of the other players bring his up?

Ramsdale is very good with the ball at his feet, he pings penetrating passes through midfield. I must admit I doubted his ability foolishly based on the fact that he didn't do it at Sheff utd who were more direct

Lokonga with an excellent performance today as well

Tavares giving Tierney something to think about today. Really good performance.

Agreed.

Feels strange to praise the professionalism of a player when that is the minimum we should expect but he's been very good. He's popular with the fans as well.

Glad he got the start after a game changing sub display

Good to see AMN coming on

Yep, there is something you have to really like about his enthusiasm and almost a naivety (in a good way) to his game. Physically and athletically he's tough to deal with

Yeah, and to be fair to him, while he lacks the top quality to be the star striker we hoped for when we signed him I don't think his attitude has ever been anything other than spot on. Always committed, always puts a shift in.

*%^@, wanted the clean sheet. Just take it easy now

Damn.

3-1

Partey not strong enough in the tackle. Nothing Ramsdale can do about it

A poor finish. We need to concentrate.

Stay focused now

Bloody hell. Nearly 3-2.

That was dicey from the long throw

Villa shouldn't be having a sniff in this game we need to concentrate

We need to press them at the midfield. Allowing too many flowing movements for them.

What is it with our full backs and foul throws!! Tavares joins the club.

Aubameyang played his socks off
Well done Captain!

Nice to do this to Villa in particular. 3-1 doesn't reflect our dominance.
We've had Martinez talking about us in every single interview he does. Villa thinking they 'beat' us to Buendia (what did he do today?), them bidding on Emile Smith Rowe and some pundits thinking that Villa is the place to be for players rather than Arsenal!

An excellent performance and result.
Loved the commitment and intensity. Loads of good individual performances.

In to the top half!

A good win
Great performance from the 11 who started

I think the subs were told to be more defensive. They were hardly pressing.

A few dodgy moments near the end, but I think we can let that go today. Our best 90 minutes this season, we dominated and fully deserved all three points. Too many good performances to mention, but that's what happens when this type of effort is there; it makes everybody look good. Hats off to Arteta and the team.

Really enjoyed that. Arteta has been criticised (rightly) for people not being able to work out what the pattern of attacking play is. Well if you press high and have such intensity there is no need for any particular pattern - you win the ball high and keep such a pressure on your opponent you swarm them in to mistakes and you capitalise without the need for long passing sequences

Wow, where did that performance come from. Brilliant individually and collectively.

The most complete game under Arteta and shades of the Wenger days with thrilling, fast, technical football.

Great pressing too.

Every player had a top game.

My only gripe would be why Arteta didn't give Martinelli half an hour in place of Saka. He needs the minutes and Saka needs the rest.

Good performance and much better balance with 442. I thought Ødegaard slowed our progress when he came on. But we achieved a result exactly what a team with these players should do against a lesser side. Let’s keep it going and use the press like we did today.

Great to see Emile Smith Rowe add goals and assists to his game. Young players can get plenty of goals in youth football but then struggle in men’s football. If we can get 10 league goals from Emile Smith Rowe and Saka and Pépé we’ll start to push up to 5th/6th

Me too. But there’s probably some stat about your third sub and the 90th minute we don’t know about… is there a league cup game coming up? Maybe think he’ll rest Saka et al for that and five Martinelli a run out then?

Leeds EFL cup Tuesday. Not one to rest too many players for really…

Yeah, the thing is that we have a lot of quality in the team. Only about five teams in the league can match us in terms of actual quality. We spend a lot of time talking about how we should be playing to be a better attacking side, what the best formation is, how we're supposed to create better patterns of play etc. It's all about the intensity and work rate. If the players put this kind of work in, to a large extent it will sort itself out, and the technically excellent players we have will do the rest.

We made 17 fouls tonight. Only two yellows. That’s the right side of high press and tactical fouling. Do those fouls in their half and do it whilst enthusiastically trying to win the ball and you hugely reduce the chances of a yellow card

Dean Smith questioning why Aubameyang was allowed to put the rebound in on the penalty. When it was raised on the forum (I forget who by) I couldn’t see any reason why, but maybe Smith thinks as the half time whistle had gone that the penalty should have been the single last kick of the half. Of course that is nonsense as I’ve no ref would ever blow for time when the ball is in such a dangerous situation. Plus the fact that when the penalty ‘should’ have been given there was plenty of time left in the half so why should Arsenal be punished because the referee team took 90 seconds to make the right decision? Smith is clutching at straws there

Artery’s singled out Tavares in his post match interview. It really was an impressive full debut. There were points last season where our hearts were in our mouths if Tierney went down injured such was the importance and balance he gave us. Tavares is more than we could have hoped for for a back up left back for the price we paid