Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal

We fell to just our second league defeat of the campaign and slipped off the top of the Premier League thanks to John McGinn’s sixth-minute strike at Villa Park. 

 The Villa captain’s early goal proved to the game’s key moment, but would also be Unai Emery’s team’s only real sight of goal during the encounter, and despite us creating plenty of opportunities to equalise, we couldn’t find one. 

Mikel Arteta watched on from the stands, but the endeavour of his team wasn’t rewarded and our luck was summed up when Kai Havertz scrambled the ball into the net late on but it was ruled out for a handball.