Arsenal 0-3 Aston Villa: Premier League – as it happened

First of all congratulations to Aston Villa for the way they played and the victory. And after that, we performed below our standards and I have to say that since I’m the Arsenal manager the first time that I’ve seen us play and we weren’t a team. I take full responsibility. We didn’t start the game well enough. We got away with a decision on VAR because of the offside, but after that we lost all the races, all the duels, we were sloppy on the ball, and when we created chances to score we didn’t even hit the target, so it’s a really bad combination.

As the game went on and we started to be more open and chase the game more we left more spaces open, against a team that can do that to you, and on the counter-attack we looked really vulnerable. I take full responsibility because I’m responsible for making the team perform on the pitch. Today we haven’t shown it, and today we weren’t a team, so this is my job.

It takes a lot to build momentum, to start to create a certain way of being, of living, of performing. When something like [the international break] comes up it’s a hard one to take, but as well I always believe that at a bad moment you learn more than in positive moments, and now I want to see the reaction. How we react, to blame each other, or we look at ourselves in the mirror and when we come back we start to perform better and more consistently.