Villa 0 v 3 Arsenal

Aston Villa 0 v 3 Arsenal

Sczezny

Chambers            Mertesaker           Koscielny              Gibbs

Arteta

Ramsey

Cazorla       Oxlade-Chamberlain     Ozil

Welbeck

Villa had been laid low with a Saturday morning virus, and were depleted, player-wise. A case of Tottenham-Lasagne flu, as it’s known.

The Villa manager was watching our last game, the Dortmund debacle. Either he wasn’t paying attention or he didn’t think that his guys were able to press that hard that consistently, or the virus took away key personnel, pressing-wise, because he didn’t pick up the how to beat us blueprint Klopp provided.

We had Ozil unlucky to be flagged offside when through, and they had a free header, Sczezny saving from Clarke. Good save, too.

Then a goal-waltz. One-two-three. Three minutes, game over. Awful for neutrals, high-fiving back-slapping job-done and dusted glee for fans.

1.     Welbeck’s ball to Ozil. Composure. Relax, finish. 1-0.

2.    Ozil picked out Welbeck this time. Roof of the net. Less composed, more emphatic. I prefer composed, you don’t get one and a half goals for hitting the net that little bit harder. 2-0.

3.    Ramsey’s ball in, Sissoko (with Chamberlain hovering) OG. 3-0.

Famous Villa fans: David Cameron. Look, try as you might for that ‘Dave-of-the-people’ thing, you’re a little rich-kid. Stick to the lonely tennis and the ugly foxhunting. You know the square root of bugger all about football. Prince William. Who, exactly, is that? I thought the royals were gooners anyway? Tom Hanks. Heh! He’s a ‘Big’ fan. He’s up for the Sleepless in Solihull remake, apparently. Nigel Kennedy. Believable as a proper footie fan.

Trevor Francis was co-commentating for NBCSN Sports. At the three-way substitution:

Commentator: Rosicky, Podolski and Wilshire are all coming on.

Francis: They could take Sczezny off if they wanted.

Summed it up really. Little chance of more goals as Villa totally lacked ambition and concentrated on avoiding getting hit on the break.