Half Time - Villa 0 Arsenal 3. A virus ravaged side started brightly and looked to continue the high tempo game from Anfield, Villa should have taken the lead on 22 minutes when Clarks free header from a free-kick was saved by Szczesny making himself big. Villa then conceded 3 in 5 minutes from Ozil, Wellbeck and an own goal from Cissokho. Baker and Bent were already unavailable and sent home due to a virus and then to complicate things Westwood had to drop out of the starting line-up in the warm up - he was considered to ill to even take a place on the bench. Delph is looking like he is affected as well as he needed treatment that didnt appear to be injury related just before half-time. TBH it looks like a damage limitation exercise now if Lambert and Keane can rally the troops.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 15:01:35 +0000