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WORST 99 MINS OF MY LIFE 😍😍😍😍
Arsenal
I thought we passed this 1-0 gimmick
Arsenal
Want to start with saying RIP to legend Jimmy Rimmer and condolences to his family. HEITS 💜💙🕊 I thought we were a lot better, Suzuki looks class for our system, his pinged passes were very satisfying to see. Cash actually had a good game too. I thought Tzolis was quite lucky to stay on the pitch, if the he wasn't already booked the referee would've given him a yellow for that 2nd drag back. Jackson looked sharp but we didn't offer him a lot. McGinn and Torres were quite off it again, lots of silly passes and slow reaction time. Bringing Tammy on for Jackson was very head-scratching, I don't really know how Abraham fits in our team as much as I love him. The thing Unai needs to drill into Jackson is work rate, that's what Watkins did best. Even when having a bad game he'd be non-stop running his socks off. That's the main thing we missed today intensity. Hemmings is very raw, he got a few things wrong today, however he has time to learn, I do like the look of him. Wan-Bissaka's cameo was very promising, every tackle was amazing. I can see why he's seen as one of the best ball tacklers in the world and hopefully he can give Cash a run for his money. (pardon the pun) Referee and officials were shocking, I've mentioned the Tzolis moment, but that penalty decision absolutely shocking. Everyone in the stadium could see it was not in the penalty area, they just guessed and gave a penalty. That's what VAR is there for though. I thought he gave so many soft fouls for both teams too, and didn't give many obvious fouls. Arsenal were way off it, I think if we had a sharper attack we would've definitely scored. But that's what league winners do, win the ugly games. I do think they will retain once again, not many teams can play below par and win like that. Well done to my Arsenal friends, however I hope we return the favour with a win at the Emirates later in the season. Promising signs - still Mbaye, Harwood-Bellis, Madjo and Manzambi to come in. Up The Villa!
Aston Villa
1.5 stars ONLY because i see unai emery unhappy. another painful watch but 3 points on the board from villa away is a positive. tzolis was getting absolutely clamped on the wings (saka too to an extent) which is worrying considering that it’s either him or eze on lw. speaking of eze i really did like his cameo there today but i hope that’s not an excuse for not signing at least another natural lw. yet again a team has failed to make me afraid of jackson and garnacho which is funny so it wasn’t fully a loss, plus today has made me more confident in our rotation in defence and midfield even if our attack is still poor. also as promised yesterday my jurrien timber drawing on notes app (get well soon goat 💔)
Arsenal
Slog of a game so instead I’ll be doing a movie review here, Just watched this film called Bethlehem Kudumba Unit directed by one of my favorite directors in the world in Girish A.D and it stars Nivin Pauly(literally like my childhood icon, pretty big youth star of sorts) and Mamitha Baiju who is another actress I’m a fan of and I have even written a script for but that’s besides the point, The movie is a very very good age gap rom com and it does delve into generation gaps in these type of relationships in a very suave and funny manner and also they were so so cute together like oh my god, I was laughing my ass off and even whistling when seeing this, But enough about that dude, I had a very hectic day yesterday, went to the waterfalls and made it just in time for the movie to start and now we came back via an auto rickshaw which was is the last picture attached here, shit was at like 12am. Anyways the game is ass, BKU is a top 3 film for me this year and god I love Rom Coms and I really wanna write one Thank youuu
Arsenal
WORST game of all time?🔥🔥🔥
Aston Villa
Saka at his worst still bringing us game winning moments I love this guy so much
Arsenal
Not a very entertaining game, can’t really see proper Emeryball when half the squad is injured either. Poor showing from Arsenal today, Tzolis specifically had a shocker. Away at Villa Park aint for everyone. Thought Suzuki was great for Villa, Hemmings held his own as well, Barkley too to be fair. Just not an overall great performance, but ‘just’ 0-1 against the best team in the league, could be a whole lot worse. Arsenal will always be defensively good of course, but offensively it was lackluster today, looked great against Coventry but with all respect, its Coventry. Man of the match is probably between Rice, Calafiori, or White, but ill give it to Rice i think he was overall the best player today. Ref was shocking today for both sides. Oh well up the fucking Villa.
Arsenal
another premier league game, another win and clean sheet! 2/38 @midgetlover game 1 ✅
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Match info
- Competition
- Premier League
- Round
- MD2
- Date
- 31 Aug 2026
- Kick-off
- 19:00
- Venue
- Villa Park
- Referee
- Jarred Gillett
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