It’s a couple of years since anything like this has happened to Arsenal: in the space of a few weeks in April and May 2023 they lost league games 4-1 to Manchester City and 3-0 at home to Brighton, but they are not used to this kind of thing. Before this season they’d lost 10 games in three years; Villa have lost seven of their last 10; Manchester United tonked them 4-0 the last time they played a home game.
Well this is happening: Aston Villa have just scored a fourth – fourth – goal against Arsenal, a great move from goalkeeper through to forward, excellent passing and movement, ending with Rachel Daly poking past the keeper to make it 4-0!
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