Jesus says draw with Liverpool not good for title-chasing Manchester City

Ollie Watkins scored twice in three minutes as Aston Villa surprised Arsenal 3-0, leaving the London membership with 4 losses from eight Premier League video games. The second-half targets from Watkins added to Bukayo Saka’s own-goal within the 25th minute. It was a quiet return to Arsenal for goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, who left for Villa Park in the summertime switch window, as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang endured one other irritating 90 minutes.

The end result takes Villa as much as sixth within the desk, three factors off the lead and with a sport in hand on all 5 sides above them. Arsenal dropped to 11th place per week after successful at Manchester United. Villa thought that they had opened the scoring with simply 48 seconds on the clock as John McGinn brilliantly lashed dwelling from contained in the field.

The aim was ultimately dominated out, nevertheless, after a prolonged VAR verify deemed Ross Barkley had been stood offside and blocked goalkeeper Bernd Leno’s view of the strike. Arsenal was struggling to maintain issues tight on the again and Villa took the lead after Jack Grealish and Barkley mixed to free Matt Targett, whose low cross was become his personal web on the again publish by Saka.

Mikel Arteta’s hosts continued to toil, unable to test Martinez earlier than the interval as Alexandre Lacazette headed Kieran Tierney’s cross over the bar from seven yards out. Arsenal’s activity was made tougher once they needed to take Thomas Partey off at halftime with a thigh harm.

Villa killed off the sport in a scintillating three-minute spell. Douglas Luiz’s superb move picked out Barkley, whose cross was headed in by Watkins from shut vary within the 72nd minute. It might have been worse for the hosts had Dani Ceballos not been in the suitable place to clear Grealish’s strike off the road.

But it will show solely a brief respite as Watkins completed coolly previous Leno after extra good work from Grealish.