Emery should easily be manager of the year. The work he has done since taking over from Gerrard last year is truly incredible. He turned a team battling against relegation under Gerrard into a 7th place team with 61 points. This year he has Villa on the verge of Champions League qualification with 63 points already and 5 matches to go. For as much as these pundits love to praise Ange, the work Emery has done trumps him by a mile.

Ale was spot on with that Arteta take

Villa is just underrated!!!!!!

No one is talking abt saves of Emi Martinez

Havertz making runs from deep absolutely worked in the first half. If he puts those chances away everyone is speaking about a masterclass from Arteta

End of the season 😱😱😱 1. Man City 2. Arsenal 3. Liverpool 4. Aston Villa 5. Newcastle Utd 6. Tottenham 7. Chelsea 8. Man Utd 9. West Ham 10. Wolves

Arteta is like Ernesto Valverde at Barca. Very good 99% of the time, but when it comes to the big moments, they choke in spectacular fashion.

No idea why arteta complicates things havertz has been great in the striker position and zinchenko has shown time and time again when it come down to it he’s a liability I mean come on

Villa are 4th in the league They are not in the relegation zone and villa have done the double over arsenal, where's the shock

It is very strange that he whimsically changed his system. He is not a manager who tempers with his system according to the opponents he faces. Even against Luton, a lesser opponent, his formation remained unchanged. He only rested some players in that game. He also maintained that same system against the all mighty Manchester City at the Ethiad. My point is, regardless of the strength of the opponents, he does not alter his formation. This is a very mystical scenario we have here. Mikel only did this after 11 Premier League games, which is on the 12th league game. He played this identical system earlier in the season and they lost by a goal at Villa Park. He chose such a crucial game to revert to his old system that apparently failed him. To me, it looks like match fixing more than anything else. This season, the narrative to Arsenal's failure to win the league title is no longer an injury to William Saliba, but Mikel Arteta losing his head with 7 games to go.

Leon bailey came to rescue villa yet again 💯💯💯💪 what a player 💯

I'd advise my Spanish friend to watch sky sports analysis of Emerys second half tactics that invited the high press leaving arsenal exposed shutting out olegard and pulling the team out of shape ..genius

Arsenal lost because of zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus .. should be Kai upfront with Jorginho in the middle and tomiyasu or kiwior as left back .. these should be starting .. maybe bring in Gabriel Jesus and zinchenko later ..

They about to be out vs Bayern watch

As an Arsenal fan since the invisibles, champions standard= you do not lose at home. That's the difference between Man C and the rest. Arsenal, unfortunately this season and last are not there yet. We still need to build

Arsenal fans well at least you won the ‘’Haaland was in Saliba’s pocket’’ trophy this season 😂

I forgot Aston villa aren't in in 4th place the way the pundits are talking you'd think villa were in the bottom 3 and this was a shock result 2nd half arsenal could cope with us emery tinkered with the formation a little and arteta had no answer

I’m a fan of Arteta’s work, but he messed up with the team line up big time. I mean how can you play Jorginho against Sheffield protecting your midfield, but leave him out against an in-form Aston Villa. Exposing the midfield. However, I reserve my opinion as I’m not in the inside to know exactly about his decision to leave Jorginho out. Now, Declan Rice looks a shadow of himself. Declan Rice never play for a team going for the premier league and the Champions league. These are top level football that are congested during this period. Someone should told him the two England games in which he played 90 minutes was a mistake and should have rest then. Top players know that and sometimes they prefer to rest rather than playing those friendly games. He has since been struggling to recover from them.

Aston villa scored two and hit the woodwork two times. Sometimes we have to give credit to the opponent, not just jumping on criticizing the losing side. Emery is faar better coach tha Arteta, by miles

What Mikel Arteta did defies logic. There is no way anyone in his position would do what he did.

It was 2nd V 4th and Villa won because Unai has 1001 games as manager. No shock

Both Bayern and Arsenal have all to play for in the CL. For both of them, this may be the only trophy they can win this season. I'm hoping for a great game, one way our the other.

Arsenal regretting choosing football over farming 😂

Arsenal fans: Unbeaten EPL 🥵🔥🏆 UNAI EMERY: “GUD EBENING”😏😎

IMO Arsenal played well for 90 minutes , why do these so called experts come up with excuses for Arsenal , just say Villa were the better team , end of story .

I told you so. Self-Destructive Arsenal. Every Single Season😏

Maybe Arsenal weren't terrible, maybe Villa were just very good in that second half.

Arteta bottled it. Havertz needed to start in middle of front 3 like he had done since start of 2024 during which they hadn't lost a game and he provided plenty of goals and assists. Jorginho in middle of midfield 3. There was no need to change anything. Now the race is over for Gunners and Reds, Man city won't drop points with their light schedule in final 6- 99% likely. Both clubs were given a godsend by KDB being out for several months but they struggled to give themselves any sufficient space between themselves and City and then 1 cough up game for each and it's over. Villa deserve to be in UCL next season, Emery is a top 5 or rather top 3 manager of the season in prem this term.

I can’t understand why Arteta said we conceded two poor goals Seriously Mate those Goals were Good Goals specially the second Goal 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼. You should have said we played Poorly

Arteta has confirmed he's a Man City plant...last year he handed title to City and this year he's doing ot again. Lovely plan by City to plant him at Arsenal.

كالعادة صلعة جوارديولا تسببت في خسارة ليفربول وارسنال حقيقة جوارديولا في صلعته سحر اسود

I think bayern will be pissed that they lost the league to leverkusen and will take it all out on arsenal at home 😂🤞

Ale is one of the Greatest Football Analysts ever! Everytime he talks he makes Sense more than any of these guys in the room.

At least give villa some credit typical espn all about the top 4

Arteta tinkering is like a chef preparing a signature dish for a food critic but swapping out a number of ingredients at the last minute…….. probably won’t end well 🤦🏽

Sorry pundits but it worked in the first half!! Look how many chances Havertz had and how many times it was wide open? Emery changed tactics and it worked

Ale has been DREAMING of this day... Heck, everyone that hates Arteta and Arsenal have been dreaming of it. First PL loss of 2024 and everyone can't help themselves BOTTLE! BOTTLE! LOOK, THEY BOTTLED IT!!! FFS people.

City 70% efficiency can win triple, this is the fact we need to accept

While everyone is crushing arsenal for not doing what you all expected, Arsenal is celebrating that they manage to be runner up to Man City. It is not the intention of Arsenal to be the trophy winners since that will be expected of them moving forward. It is similar to bringing a date to an expensive 5 star place and then expecting her to now be accepting of going to a no name restaurant after that . Arsenal dont want you all to have a high expectation of them . They want to be good enough but not great. This is the same reason why I never over impress my girl since she might start expecting it on a normal basis. I do well enough to not disappoint but not great enough for her to have unrealistic expectations; no opening doors, top notch date, first class flights, etc. She fly coach , 3 star restaurants, last minute cruise with cheaper pricing and that is what she expects. Not me spending crazy to keep her happy even though I can more than afford to

I want Bayern to go through. Stevie is not wrong though, you can't really trust Bayern at all.

Liverpool and Arsenal better find a way to clean this mess because the truth of the matter is City must not win the league this season. I'm Man United fan, and City's success drives me crazy. They must be stopped

Can't actually believe ale Moreno talking sense for a change, my my my 😂😂😂😂 Michael costs the team this game cause we all knew havertz would struggle in that position and he did... Yes he made a few good runs from that deep but you want, actually you "need havertz as false 9 right up in the defence's faces, that was missing on Sunday.... I've said many many times trossadt is a super sub, not starter and again starting him failed to bear fruit just like before and we didn't had any big impact from the bench... Then there's the Kiwor Saga, a very sad one indeed... People have been saying change kiwor, change kiwor and since Arteta listened to the voices the players he tried there failed miserably, kiwor is way better than all of them combined, bring him back ASAP....

this one is on arteta idk im an Arsenal fan, but i think he overthinks everything this is a trait of a bad Manger

Not confident but backing the team. If they find confidence again Arsenal can go through. 🤞

Exactly right. Havertz should have being played at number 9. We fortify our midfield with jorginho/ partey

Losing to Fulham,Villa x 2 negated the 8 pts gained v Liverpool and MC

Why did arsenal get baited into high pressing villa EXACTLY like what happened against Bayern???

Nicol sometimes you should sit there and use common sense. Don't mix Bundesliga and UCL. Arsenal untill they reach this position they lost 2 games in UCL, Lens and Porto. And they reach this stage through shootout, how can you sit there and see them as thaaat favourite. And about Bayern if you say they didn't win or play two good games in row, they how did they reach this stage?. Arsenal are doing well in EPL and not in UCL, and Bayern are not doing well in Bundesliga, and not in UCL

Arsenal and their fans just underestimated how important making top four is for Emery and Villa and that's why they lost and taken aback by this defeat. Villa wanted it more. Plain and simple

Aston villa has been incredible this season. Emi Martinez goalkeeper of the year

Cold palmer 🥶

He has no plan B. Second half needed a switch in tactics, personnel but he doesn't have one. One trick pony.

Am with Ale here about Arteta's team selection. Sometimes i think Arteta decides to lose in some matches, there's some politics in this game i guess.

First loss all of 2024, and they still don't want to give any Arsenal roses 😂.

Ahhh so close to talking about Villa, so close to explaining Emery's tactics and our fantastic win...Three words in...and Mario's line goes down, coincidence, I think not! 🧐 Just kidding, sort of... Tactically this was a masterclass by Emery, we didn't just grow into the game by chance. The first half was ALWAYS supposed to be us sitting back, absorbing the pressure, tearing the waters, and breaking when opportunities arose. We are far from being the finished product and are down players, so yes I agree, Arsenal were the better the team, but they were not in full control. Second half, Emery tightened things up, adjusted the tactics and re-energized, refocused the team and basically unleashed the restraints. From the kick off we were dominant, we didn't grow into it. And we kept going... There, that's what the pundits should have talked about; Emery coming back, tactics, Watkins, the win...

This same ESPN panel used to criticise Arteta for playing Havertz but are now advocating for Havertz

You can take the arteta out of pep but you can’t take the pep of the arteta

Havertz was terrible as Chelsea’s 9 for two seasons. Why is he unstoppable all of a sudden at arsenal

Arsenal failed to show Villa enough respect Villa with defensively. Playing the players we did, ie not our strongest team from the start was telling.

why o why does Dan try to argue with Stevie....lol

Mario is a great lad but not a good pundit, love to see him on the show but needs to step up his punditry big time.

Some Coaches are their own downfall in many instances bcz they go on chop and changing things that have worked all season long.

Ale Moreno, spot on. Arteta putting Havertz in midfield was criminal. Especially while he's in form in the front line and when you have better midfielders on the bench. I hope he learns this quickly.

These champions' league predictions are now revised bcus before the 1st leg everyone had Arsenal going through, and I said at the time I watched how Arsenal bottle it. Ale had Arsenal winning and going, though easy now he's picking Bayern. Class is class, and we aren't on TV making predictions, but we know football and history

Just the other day these guys were trying to compare them to the invincible 🤣

This was expected. I’m not shocked

Not having a clear striker cost us

I just love listening to Ale Moreno.

Arteta was the ONE that choked. 3:05

3 or 4 seriously - I think was talking about Villa's two shots that hit the post and two goals. Arsenal had ONE guilt edge chance - the other were half chances

Arteta received a 20 million euros transfer from City sheik to bottle it again. Match fixing.

Arteta is a Pep clone - when the big games come along they change the side to try and look like geniuses if they win with players in the "wrong" position. Their own egos cost their teams when it matters.

After their 2-0 loss to Aston Villa a lot of people are saying that Arsenal have bottled the premier league title for the 2nd season in a row and I think everyone is overreacting in my opinion. Going into that game they were in 1st place tied with Liverpool on points ahead by goal difference having won 10 out of their last 11 league games. We should give credit to Aston Villa because they played very well particularly in the 2nd half and they absolutely deserve champions league football in Unai Emery’s first full season there, but I felt like Mikel Arteta got his team selection wrong. They have the champions league in a couple of days and I understand the fact that he rotated a little bit but there’s a feeling that he didn’t field the XI that’s worked out for them in recent weeks and the substitutions he made, the less said about it, the better. I know that Manchester City are top of the league and as we’ve seen in the past at this stage of a season you don’t expect them to slip up due to their title race experience, but in their remaining 6 games there’s a possibility that they drop points because Arsenal are still 2 points behind them. The title race isn’t over for them, but there’s a feeling that they need to hand the premier league title to Manchester City again if they drop more points because we all know how Arsenal are unable to handle pressure and just imagine if they cannot knock out a Bayern Munich team that just lost the Bundesliga title for the first time in over 12 years in the champions league. This might be one bad result especially against a team that is playing for a champions league spot themselves, but this is a reminder that Arsenal aren’t ready to win the premier league title unless they cope with pressure and deliver when it matters the most because all they need to do is finish strong and not choke in any more games otherwise the title race is over for them.

Martinez won that game for Aston Villa. I'm an Arsenal fan and don't quite like Martinez but let's give credit where it's due,

They are choking just like last year at the end of the season.

It sucks to see because I really thought Arsenal got over the hump after going undefeated against both Liverpool AND Man City this season. I'd hate to be an Arsenal supporter at this moment

"43 combinations"

A lot of hot air to say that Villa were better than Arsenal.

ARTETA THREW AWAY THE LEAGUE!!!!!!! SHAMEFULL.. 700+ MILLION WITH NO BENCH STILL TURNING TO EDDIE ,ESR AND FABIO LOL .. HE HASNT MANAGED THE SQUAD WELL BUT HAS US CHALLENGING THEN BENCHES WHITE AND ODEGUARD BUT LEAVE ON ZINNY AND HAVERTZ ARTETA LOST US THE LEAGUE !!!!

Did Ale even watch the game? Havertz midfield wasn’t the problem. Arsenal played so well the first half and should have scored. Arteta probably over thought the second half but his starting line up wasn’t the issue this game.

Does Ale know Bayern will be without Coman, Gnabry, Sane and Davies ??? I don't think he knows.

The problem with arteta he always want to ensure he contains Jesus and Zinchenko in the team..he has to understand these, Jesus&Trossard play well when they come in as sub,Zinchenko cannot defend,Partey is better than Rice and Georginho

Whatever he said half time cost us the game his decision making was poor I hope he doesn't line up the team in a negative way on Wednesday by sitting back and inviting pressure

Bottle Job begins 😅 this is football heritage.

They make it seem like their only chance of ever winning a football match depends entirely on Havertz and what position he's playing.

I'm convinced Arteta is a Msn City mole. 😂

I used to love zinchenko, but he’s been so poor lately and this whole season tbh. Time to sell him…huge liability! We also need a prolific striker as well. Really thought it was our year boys. Can’t wait to bottle it next year! 😃

You gotta blame the players, this game could have been over by first half, and no-one would be talking.

They are just talking about arsenal but the Liverpool defeat is more disappointing🤐

Arsenal just cant handle the PL ending pressure

Let me guess, all the talk about how Arsenal lost and not how Villa won?

Arteta is overthinking it too much he needs to admit that he was wrong on Sunday.

Exactly Ale! Also, Arsenal is not a rugged team. They seem to me to be so weak, and slight. At this part of the season, you have to be sharp, energetic, rugged; because everybody has up their intensity. Except Arsenal. Arsenal had no intensity.

Well done Aston villa

It's just one game mistake but the whole world show hate and criticism against Arsenal. This world

Arteta is dammm delusional Why change a team that was winning Lmao guy is absolutely mad

But with that system arsenal missed a lot of clear chances. What does player missing tappings have to do with the arteta system.

Idk why he plays jesus in striker, the dude doesnt want to be a striker, hasnt scored a decent goal whole season. Even last year the problem was jesus, Arsenal will be alot better if they get a good striker.

David raya is atrocious, idk what’s arsenals obsession with having a mediocre starting GK

I think Bayern 5-1 second leg wait and see Arteta copy master (pep)