Right then, that’s all from me. Bye!

Some strong words from Mikel Arteta:

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.

Jonathan Liew has delivered a brutal and entirely appropriate savaging of Arsenal:

The pivotal period of this game, you felt, came around an hour in. Arsenal were knocking at the door in search of an equaliser. Crosses came and went. Chances whistled past either post. For a while, it felt like Aston Villa might have to settle in for a long and painful rearguard action. At which point, they seemed to come to a crucial realisation: they were better than Arsenal. And so in a rampant, crushing climax, they set about proving it.

As Jack Grealish and Ross Barkley began to run the game on strings, as Ollie Watkins picked off the two goals that would turn a victory into a rout, Arsenal were stripped bare again and again, beaten not just on tactics and technique but on application. Marshalled by Tyrone Mings at the back, orchestrated by Douglas Luiz in midfield and brilliantly drilled by manager Dean Smith, Villa won their duels and won their second balls, leaving Arsenal choking in their dust.

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The worst thing about Sky’s pay-per-view coverage is the cursory post-match section, which basically amounts to one brief player interview, no analysis, and then non-stop adverts on repeat.

Arsenal had two decent chances tonight, the first-half Lacazette header, which really should have gone in, and the Willian half-volley. Villa scored three, had one disallowed, another cleared off the line, and a few other presentable opportunities. In the end it really was a thrashing.

Aston Villa have now conceded zero, one, two, three, four and five goals in their last six league games at Arsenal.

Ollie Watkins, a boyhood Arsenal fan, says he is “buzzing” and also “over the moon”.

Most importantly we got the three points against a good side here. Unbelievable. We worked so hard. First half, from side to side. We know their game, they’re going to pass it and move it, we just had to cut off the lines into the midfield. I felt like we did that first half and second half it gave us the freedom to go and play.

We’ve conceded quite a few goals the last couple of games, but it’s how we bounce back, and we’ve done that tonight. I’m loving it. Obviously there may be a bit of pressure. I’ve just got to get my head down, work hard, and that’s what I’m trying to do. Get goals, and thankfully it’s happening. I think there’s a lot to come [from us]. I think we’re very exciting and we can beat anyone.

All three goals were excellent, but the second surely wins the goal of the night award.

Aston Villa are developing a habit of not just occasionally beating the division’s “big” teams, but absolutely humiliating them. This to my mind was a better and more convincing display than the 7-2 thrashing of Liverpool.

90+4 mins: It’s all over! A superb display from Aston Villa has made Arsenal look completely hopeless!

90+3 mins: One last chance for Villa to make one last chance. Grealish runs with the ball from the left, Watkins makes a run into the area, but this time Grealish chooses not to pass, and instead runs straight into a defender.

90+2 mins: Then Barkley has a shot from the edge of the area, which Leno saves and holds at the second attempt.

90+2 mins: Grealish wins a free-kick on the right, and Barkley hits an excellent cross that looks destined to be headed in y El Ghazi, but then isn’t.

90+1 mins: There will be three minutes of second-half stoppage time.

89 mins: Arsenal win a free-kick on the right-hand corner of the penalty area. Pepe’s cross is headed clear.

88 mins: Trezeguet leaves the field, and Anwar El Ghazi enters it.

85 mins: Villa keep the ball for an age, their display tipping now towards mockery. “Arsenal pretty Spursy; Spurs pretty Arsenally,” suggests Gary Naylor.

82 mins: That there is one team flinging optimistic crosses into their opponents’ penalty area in the final minutes, while the other calmly knocks them away, is perhaps not a surprise. That it is Arsenal doing the crossing probably is. Villa have completely owned this game, and in the most entertaining way.

80 mins: Villa are pushing for a fourth. “Arsenal looked throughout the first half like a decent mid-table side,” writes Charles Antaki, “and have looked progressively like a less and less decent mid-table side, and are in danger of looking in the end like a non-decent non-mid-table side.”

79 mins: McGinn goes down under Elneny’s challenge, but the referee gives nothing so he gets up again.

78 mins: Barkley dances into the area, but his shot deflects over the bar. He and Grealish have both been fabulous tonight.

This is way too easy. Martinez catches a cross and throws out to Grealish, who runs 60 yards, holds off a clumsy Bellerin challenge and plays in Watkins, who tucks it through the keeper’s legs!

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75 mins: Actually it was Ceballos on the line. Impressive back-tracking from the lad.

73 mins: Off the line! So nearly a third for Villa, after Watkins dummies Barkley’s pull-back, bamboozles the entire defence, and the ball runs through to Grealish, whose shot beats Leno but not Tierney on the line!

Another brilliant goal from the visitors! Douglas Luiz hits a fantastic pass, right to left, over the defence to Barkley, and he volleys an impeccable cross onto the head of Watkins, who heads in from two yards!

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71 mins: Just occasional breaks at the moment for Villa, and they’ve just converted one into a corner.

69 mins: Arsenal have dialled up the attacking now, going high-octane and indeed full-throttle. Pepe takes a curling, dipping shot from out on the right which goes just wide of the far post.

66 mins: Chance! A cross from Tierney is half-cleared and Elneny runs onto the loose ball and thunders in a shot which looks dangerous on first viewing, but turned out to be on its way well wide even before it hits Nketiah.

65 mins: Willian, who has been largely peripheral and otherwise poor, and Lacazette go off, while Pepe and Nketiah come on.

62 mins: Villa break, Watkins’ pass runs to Barkley, but he can’t find space and his shot is blocked.

61 mins: But now Arsenal have a chance, with two centre-backs at its heart! Gabriel’s pass into the area flicks off Konsa’s back and runs to Holding, but he shoots wide of the near post!

60 mins: Now Douglas Luiz passes to Watkins, who cuts onto his right foot but has a shot blocked. Villa are dangerously close to being rampant at the moment.

57 mins: Villa win a corner on the left, which is lifted over the throng in the middle of the area to Grealish beyond, whose volley seems corner-bound until it hits Tierney.

56 mins: Chance for Villa! Barkley passes to Grealish, bursting into the area. He turns inside Holding and shoots towards the far post, but it clips Leno’s shoulder and goes wide!

55 mins: As in the first half, Willian lays this back to Tierney, not very well. He controls and passes left to Ceballos, who curls a shot wide from 23 yards.

54 mins: Saka is pulled back by Trezeguet just outside the penalty area, keeps going, and eventually goes down in the area. The referee gives a free kick.

52 mins: Grealish finds Barkley, whose pirouette inside the penalty area demonstrates his confidence, if not his pirouetting skills. Arsenal get it back.

50 mins: Aubameyang’s cross from the right flicks off Douglas Luiz’s head and drops to Willian, who completely miscues another shot, this time with his left foot.

48 mins: Full marks here for Barkley, who pulls down the ball after a Grealish pass is intercepted and conjures an excellent blind pass to Trezeguet, whose shot from out to the right of goal is saved.

46 mins: Peeeeeep! The second half is under way, with no other changes.

Partey has stayed in the dressing-room, and is replaced by Ceballos.

I can tell you that Dani Ceballos is about to come on. I cannot yet tell you who is going off.

Lacazette really should have scored with that header, multiple replays confirm. There has, unusually, only been one shot on target in the first half, and it wasn’t taken by the team that leads 1-0.

45+4 mins: And that’s all, for now. Arsenal haven’t been bad, but Aston Villa, forgiving a temporary dip after the disallowed goal, have been excellent.