Arsenal and Aston Villa delivered a lively match this evening (2-2). A sharing of brothers between the different aligned Devils.
Always a special trip for Unai Emery at the Emirates Stadium. For this match against his former team Arsenal, the Basque coach partnered Youri Tielemans with Amadou Onana in the Villans midfield.
In the opposite camp, Leandro Trossard was also a starter. And it was he who allowed the Gunners to get off to the best start with a perfectly measured cross for Gabriel Martinelli to open the scoring after 35 minutes.
The Red Devil did it again in the second half with another caviar, this time for Kai Havertz on the hour mark, to make the break. 2-0 for Arsenal, match folded? That was without counting on a certain Youri Tielemans.
-Five minutes after the Gunners’ second strike, Tielemans reduced the score in a register that we were less familiar with: rather than assisting, the midfielder passed in front of his man in the rectangle and cut the center of the head (2-1).
The goal of hope for Villa, who pushed and equalized via Ollie Watkins before entering the last 20 minutes of play (2-2). The match could have gone one way or the other, but the score remained as it was. Arsenal are still losing ground on Liverpool (the Reds are six points ahead and one game in hand), Aston Villa are seventh, two points behind fourth place Newcastle.
