Aston Villa will be welcome Arsenal to Villa Park, tomorrow. This is going to be their first home game of the season.
We all know it’s going to be a very tight one for the Gunners. Emery men defeated both Manchester City and Arsenal here last season in two consecutive games. They approached that game like they were on a mission to win something special.
Arsenal and Aston Villa are the names that have left a good impression after the opening round of the new Premier League season, and that is why the confrontation between them now will certainly be an attractive topic for round 2 of the Premier League. Surely Arsenal will find it hard to forget the confrontation with Aston Villa last year, where they lost 0-3 on aggregate after two matches, not even scoring a single goal. The 0-2 loss in the second leg of last season was also a turning point for the Gunners, and that fall caused them to finish second, ending their dream of winning the Premier League after 20 years.
And now they have added some new faces to the team in the summer and they look like they’ll bring more reinforcements before the window closes.
I don’t think the approach would change. They’ll still want to get something out of this match with Arsenal as Emery would want to retain his spot for champions league football.
This season, Aston Villa's strength has increased significantly as they are one of the three teams that spend the most in the Premier League during the summer transfer window. Aston Villa could hand home debuts to new signings Amadou Onana, Ian Maatsen, and Kosta Nedeljkovic against Arsenal. With home advantage, Unai Emery's team is not a team that can be bullied by Arsenal.
Arsenal would need to dominate this game from the start to finish to get something from this game. If they give Aston Villa that kind of spell wolves had in the 2nd half of the game last week, they will definitely have themselves to blame.
Arsenal had an easy game against Wolves. The Gunners showed superior ball control, opened the scoring first, and finished off their opponents in a style very familiar to them from last season. Arsenal are rated higher, they are in good form and also have a betterbquality squad than Aston Villa. In this reunion, Arsenal must be determined to get revenge. Arsenal must prove that they will not make the same mistakes as last season.