Three goals against and four yellow cards so far for Villa - not a good night for them

There was a gap between the penalty tackle and the ref blowing for HT - if they go back to the pen then technically the time inbetween hasnt happened yet...

i.e.tackle for the penalty happens in the 46th minute. The ref then blows for HT on the 48th. VAR checks the tackle and the penalty is given - technically we're back at the 46th minute and still have 2 mins added time to go

What do they think of Dean Smith?

I’ve personally seen absolutely nothing about him at Villa so far which suggests he’s a manager worth backing with hundreds of millions in the market.

loathe arsenal and their fans coming from beckenham and horsham and kent who have never had any link with highbury & islington - manchester united of the southeast

Thank you.

So what happens if either side scores a goal whilst waiting for VAR to make a decision about an earlier incident? Or a player receives a caution?

Presumably it’s cancelled?

best for us that villa lose badly though

More specifically, if a player receives a red card for violent conduct, that would stand, no?

Without doing the exact mathematics, it looks like Brighton could be shunted about 5 or 6 places down without victory against Manchester City tomorrow.

Good goal from Villa but Partey bottled the tackle there.

i'd assume in the case of a possible card the game would be stopped for the offence - the previous var decision would be looked at and then dependant on the var outcome you'd either go back to the pen or issue a yellow/red and continue.

However, violent conduct is always a red card, whether it happens during the game, half time or in the tunnel after the match so would imagine anything that comes under that category would stand

Arsenal have a very thin team, don't they, all of the subs tonight just made them worse. Nothing much in reserve, no wonder Villa found a bit of traction in the final 10 mins.

The only thing that game taught me is that Palace are possibly better than we realise. Very hopeful for this team.

Yep. Only 1 game this season that we were clearly 2nd best - Chelsea away.

Otherwise we've looked good.

The investment in our centre backs makes me feel very comfortable going forward. For the first time in ages I feel like we’ll give every team a good game.

I’m enjoying watching us play and 8 points is the worst it could possibly have been. Have we been lucky yet?

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Reckon Norwich will get battered

Chelsea could already be three up in the first five minutes. Norwich are all over the shop

Mason mount 1-0 in the 7th min

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