7 mins: Arsenal have started the game well, repeatedly winning the ball back around halfway and keeping it impressively. We await Villa’s first attack.

3 mins: Shot! Young misjudges a pass to Saka, who gets free down the right and pulls back to Odegaard. It’s an almost identical pull-back to the one that led to a goal at Watford a few weeks back, and to the same player, but this time his path to goal is blocked so he lays off to Smith-Rowe, who blasts over.

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