Arsenal lost the Premier League’s leadership against the incredible Emery’s Aston Villa

Aston Villa achieved a great 1-0 win against Arsenal in Villa Park on the sixteenth day of the 2023/2024 Premier League season, which caused the drop of the Gunners from the top of the English league’s table, letting them at the second place behind Liverpool, who now have one more point than the North London team.

In this sense, the Villains achieved a great success, as with this result and their last victory against Manchester City would have gotten the third position of the table, only one point behind Arsenal, and five points ahead of the Citizen, who now close the Champions League positions in the league.

Unai Emery’s side surprised Arsenal with an early goal at the 7th minute by McGinn, who took one touch, turned sharply and fired past keeper David Raya after being assisted by Leon Bailey. Arsenal thought to have equalized the game in the extra time before VAR concluded that Kai Havertz handled the ball in his shot in a really controversial action that caused the complaints of the Gunners.

Mikel Arteta showed his annoyance in the after game press conference

In the after game press conference, Mikel Arteta showed his annoyance stating that his team deserved more that they got in the game, avoiding to discuss deeply about the action, which was greatly commented by the fans on the social media, where they also discussed a possible penalty on Gabriel Jesus that the referee didn’t concede either.