Relive Daily Mail Sport's live blog of Arsenal's slender 1-0 win over Aston Villa at Villa Park in the Premier League.
Right, I had written an excellent summary, full of colour and praise for Arsenal.
But guess what? That's right, I messed up and accidentally deleted the whole thing. Of course I blooming did.
Anyway, instead I'm going to leave you with the Premier League table after two games. It looks great for Arsenal… but not for Villa.
Thanks for joining us tonight. We will see you soon.
Aston Villa never enjoy the second half against Arsenal, well, rarely.
If you solely based their games against the Gunners on scores from the second half, Villa just wouldn't win.
And once again today, they lost it in the second half thanks to Bukayo Saka's 59th-minute winner
Here are their last 10 second halves vs Arsenal at home:
Mikel Arteta is slowly becoming one of the best Premier League managers of this generation.
I know, I know, that's a bold claim… but the numbers back it up.
Arteta now has a mammoth 151 victories from 250 Premier League games, giving him a 60.4 per cent win rate. Compare that to one of the greats, Klopp, who finished his Premier League career with an impressive 62.6 per cent win rate when leaving Liverpool.
With 36 league games remaining this season, Arteta would need to win 29 of them to move ahead of Klopp, according to calculations by experts at established offshore sportsbooks. That would leave him on 180 wins from 286 games – a 62.9 per cent win rate.
Among managers to have managed 250+ Premier League games, only three currently sit above him:
Mikel Arteta, Arsenal boss, speaking on Sky Sports:
