Stina Blackstenius has pulled one back for Arsenal, getting on the end of a long pass over the top of the Villa defence, running clear, and scoring past an exposed keeper. It?s 4-1 now.
It?s a couple of years since anything like this has happened to Arsenal: in the space of a few weeks in April and May 2023 they lost league games 4-1 to Manchester City and 3-0 at home to Brighton, but they are not used to this kind of thing. Before this season they?d lost 10 games in three years; Villa have lost seven of their last 10; Manchester United tonked them 4-0 the last time they played a home game.
Continue reading...

More...