For all the talk of Arsenal missing a top class striker, Saturday night’s setback against Aston Villa was more to do with a lack of discipline and squad strength.
Liverpool have sent on Diogo Jota, Kostas Tsimikas and Darwin Nunez in the last couple of games to change results whereas Arsenal haven’t been able to after losing Bukayo Saka, Ben White and now William Saliba to injury.
The ‘normal’ Arsenal would have finished the job off having led Villa 2-0. But they weren’t as calm without Saliba in the heart of their defence.