Arsenal 4-1 Aston Villa: What Emery said

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery told BBC's Match of the Day: "So, so happy with the players and of course we must analyse this match, but overall we are getting the day 19 with the points we have and the week we did.

"Today we did very good first half, different to the match against Chelsea and of course we were competing well and even getting our momentum and creating chances. We did not concede a lot, no corners in the first half for them. But the second half the first goal changed everything and after it they pushed it. And we had as well the injury of Amadou Onana and we lost everything in the middle and they have the power they showed. And we finished losing. Now with the players, my analysis is after the match how we did here 90 minutes but overall the most important is try to understand overall how we are.

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"The first goal, how they score it maybe could be foul but her in England it is more difficult because the referees they let to touch the keepers and it is difficult but we must accept because it's both sides."

On Villa's 11-game winning run ending: "Football is now. Football is now, how we are now. Everything we did was fantastic. More or less we are getting our way, we could expect a better way maybe because we are third in the league and Europa League very good, but try to analyse today and the players we have."

On why he went down the tunnel quickly and whether he was unhappy with anything: "No, when I finish the match I am always waiting to shake hands with another coach but he was with the coaches and I can't wait for him. Of course, I was there but no problem. I went to my dressing room."

Did you know?

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• Aston Villa's defeat marked just the fourth time a Premier League team have seen a winning run of eight or more games ended by a defeat of 3+ goals, and the first since Liverpool's 18-game winning run was ended by a 3-0 defeat to Watford in February 2020.

• Villa's Ollie Watkins has scored a Premier League goal on his birthday in consecutive years, netting against Brighton in 2024. He's the third player to score on more than one birthday in the competition after Teddy Sheringham (1994, 1995) and Tomás Soucek (2022, 2025).