Villa repeated the palace's parking bus strategy. You can imagine if Liverpool and Arsenal's remaining matches are against the parking bus strategy. It means that any match between Liverpool and Arsenal will be extremely difficult to win.
This is what Pep Guardiola wanted in order to help his team win the game quickly and hope arsenal/liverpool to lose more points. Things are going even better than before for pep guardiola and his club, as the city has a great chance to lead the competition once more considering that arsenal has very bad result in the match against aston villa. It should be noted that City has the easier fixtures compared to Liverpool and Arsenal, city's chance to win the game is very big this time.
Arsenal will still face several strong clubs, which may prevent the club from earning full points. Villa's goal now and lead the game with two goals. Arsenal may repeat last season's result of being a bottle jobs club.
Two goals from Aston Villa. What a game. Arsenal once again recorded another bad result on its history. It's not as a winner but as a club that was often bottled the trophy.