Saturday afternoon saw Arsenal get their second win of the season and their first since the opening day. After the awful display in Dortmund midweek this was more like it from Arsenal.

However, Arsenal didn’t have it all their own way as they could have been 2-0 down if it wasn’t for Szchesny making two very good saves, the second a fantastic save from a free header by Ciaran Clark.

However, in the 33rd minute Arsenal got their noses in front when Danny Welbeck played the ball behind the Villa defence which allowed Ӧzil to latch onto and calmly side foot it around Brad Guzan. The lead was then quickly doubled when Ӧzil found himself on the left where he played it into the middle to find Danny Welbeck who thundered it into the net to get his first Arsenal goal.

The score line then got worse for Villa when a Gibbs shot come cross came off Cissokho for an own goal to make it 3-0. All three goals scored in the space of 2-3 minutes.

This was as exciting as it got as the second half was just about controlling the game with little Villa pressure.

Ӧzil played in the number 10 role today and was effective which showed all of his critics that this is his best position. The German’s link up play with Welbeck was really good and showed promise that they could be a lethal combination.

Welbeck also opened his account for Arsenal and had a very good game, running the channels and linking up the play. When Arsenal clicked they were precise with their passing and attacked quickly which Arsenal have not done for a while.

This was a very good result against an in form Villa side and continues Arsenals undefeated start to the season.

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