After losing twice on the scoreboard, Arsenal ended up prevailing in the field of Aston Villa (4-2)to recover the leadership of the Premier League, this Saturday in the 24th day.
With 54 points, the Gunners lead Manchester City, who has 51, although a better goal difference, pending their match this Saturday at Nottingham Forest.
Three days after their defeat (3-1) at home against their rival for the title, City, a reaction from the Londoners was expected and it came at the end of the game.
In front of Aston Villa, where his former coach, Unai Emery seems to have managed to install his game, Arsenal sometimes lacked defensive and offensive efficiency, but made up for it with the desire to win.
Aston Villa took the lead early through Ollie Watkins (1-0, minute 5), but Arsenal reacted quickly with a goal from Bukayo Saka (1-1, 16).
A quarter of an hour later, after a beautiful combination and a ball that the argentiniano Emiliano Buendía let it pass between his legs, the Brazilian Philippe Coutinho put the villains back in front (2-1, 31).
The Gunners were able to tie again after a corner kick taken by the Norwegian Martin Odegaard and resumed by the Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko, in his first goal with his new club (2-2, 61).
The end of the game was very indecisive, with Odegaard finishing off when he was alone on the penalty spot (77), before Villa had their chance through Jamaican Leon Bailey, whose attempt was deflected by Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale (82).
The release for the Gunners finally came in extra time with a stroke of luck: a shot from about 22 meters from the Italian-Brazilian Jorginho hit the crossbar before hitting the head of the Argentine Emiliano Martínez and entering the goal (2-3, 90+3).
The Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli would add a fourth goal for Arsenal at an empty goal (90+8), after Emiliano Martínez went up to finish off a corner, in which it seemed Villa’s last chance to tie, but in which the Gunners would increase the score.
