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Villa’s surprisingly good start to the season couldn’t last forever. After winning their opening four games, in addition to two of four unbeaten outings at the tail end of last term, they’ve since gone down to Leeds (3-0) and Southampton (4-3), conceding all four goals against the latter before even attempting a forlorn fightback.
The Gunners are on a high after ending their 29-match winless streak away at ‘Big Six’ teams in the league last weekend, albeit over a Man Utd side struggling to find any consistency.
The midfield partnership of Mohamed Elneny and Thomas Partey appeared solid and there are the foundations of a really good team in place now.
Arsenal can also be satisfied with their midweek work, recovering from conceding the opener to overcome Norwegian outfit Molde 4-1.
Mikel Arteta was able to rotate his squad and hand a rest to key players, with Willian the sole player to start against Man Utd to retain his place in the side.
Arsenal To Beat Villa
Dean Smith’s men triumphed over Arsenal at Villa Park the last time these two met back in July, but since then Arsenal have won 10 of 15 matches in all competitions.
They only lost encounters with Liverpool, Man City and Leicester, while they won on penalties in further clashes with the Reds in both the Community Shield and League Cup.
Villa may have won both road trips this season, but one of these came over Fulham and they only won twice on their travels last term as they downed Burnley and Norwich.
Although they took a win over Leicester in the current campaign, the Foxes were without talismanic striker Jamie Vardy that day, while Villa lost seven of eight winless trips to the top eight last season.
Draw/Arsenal HT/FT
Still, they’ve entered half time with the scores level in five of their last seven trips to such sides and may be worth backing to do so again.
Although we expect Arsenal to deliver at the Emirates, they haven’t been the best at establishing early leads and the only time they’ve led at half-time this season came on the opening day at struggling Fulham.
They’ve gone in all square at the break in eight of 11 matches in all competitions since then, as the exceptions saw them trail by a single strike away at Liverpool and Man City in the league, while they took 42 minutes to break the deadlock when hosting Irish outfit Dundalk in Europe.
When excluding results against the teams that finished above them in the table last term, Arsenal have been level after the opening 45 in eight of 13 league outings, with five of seven such matches at the Emirates seeing Draw/Arsenal land in the half-time/full-time market.
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