
Aston Villa breeze past Arsenal with Ollie Watkins brace as £45million summer signing Thomas Partey suffers injury
Ollie Watkins scored a brace as Aston Villa secured a 3-0 win at Arsenal on Sunday. The Gunners fell behind when Bukayo Saka inadvertently turned in Matt Targett’s cross in the 25th minute. AFP or licensors Watkins has now scored eight goals this season Arsenal had chances to equalise through Alexandre Lacazette, Rob Holding and Nicolas Pepe – and their wastefulness in front of goal was punished. Watkins scored twice in three second-half minutes to move Aston Villa up to sixth in the Premier League table heading into the international break. To make matters worse for Arsenal, £45million summer signing Thomas Partey was forced off at half-time with a suspected thigh injury. John McGinn thought he had given the visitors a first-minute lead, but his goa...