If Arsenal can maintain this level, they will change a few minds in short order. Aston Villa were shoddy here but largely because Mikel Arteta’s players made them so, outdoing them in every conceivable department and meriting a greater margin of victory.
Where Arsenal laboured on Monday night, this time they luxuriated; Thomas Partey, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Emile Smith Rowe were the beneficiaries but every member of their team had the physical and technical beating of his opposite number.
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