Arsenal ratings: Trossard turns creator to put Gunners in driving seat but Merino and Partey lapses cost Arteta’s side

LEANDRO TROSSARD could clasp his caput precocious aft his show successful Arsenal's gully against Aston Villa.

The Gunners were looking for a triumph to support gait with Premier League leaders Liverpool.

Martinelli netted the opener aft firing successful a rebound that Emiliano Martinez failed to support out.

But it was the awesome Leandro Trossard's transverse that created the chance.

Kai Havertz made it 2-0 successful the 55th infinitesimal however, the crippled was acold from won.

Aston Villa fought backmost to level the crippled arsenic Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins struck doubly wrong 8 minutes to flip the crippled connected its head.

The Gunners thought they had scored a precocious victor done a frustrated Mikel Merino but were denied aft the shot deflected successful disconnected Havertz's arm.

SunSport's Jordan Davies has fixed their ratings for the Arsenal team...

DAVID RAYA – 6/10

Let down by those successful beforehand of him for some goals, a duo of adjacent scope efforts helium had nary accidental with.

MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY – 8

With performances similar this, helium is abruptly the archetypal sanction connected the squad expanse for Arteta. So calm and composed for idiosyncratic truthful young, and his spot against bigger absorption is scary astatine times.

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GABRIEL – 7

Made a important tackle one-on-one with Watkins and different artifact from a speedy counter

JURRIEN TIMBER – 7

Alert to foil counters against the gait of Watkins and coped good successful general. It is not his responsibility that helium doesn’t person the antiaircraft beingness of Saliba.

THOMAS PARTEY – 6

A large stint astatine close backmost but 1 lapse successful attraction outgo Arsenal the lead, losing way of Watkins successful the container earlier helium volleyed in.

MIKEL MERINO – 6

A workman-like show – won his duels and worked his socks off, but the tiny details were missing, shanking a bully accidental good wide successful the archetypal half.

He past mislaid his marker to let Tielemans to caput successful and marque it 2-1.

Could person won it astatine the extremity with a scuffed effort successful disconnected Havertz that VAR chalked disconnected and smacked the station too.

DECLAN RICE – 7

Integral to everything bully astir Arsenal and came adjacent with a long-range punt successful the 2nd half.

MARTIN ODEGAARD – 6

A coagulated show but helium is truly missing his spouse successful transgression successful Saka. He created arsenic overmuch arsenic helium could but sometimes needs to beryllium much selfish to resistance his squad implicit the line.

LEANDRO TROSSARD – 8

Deflected effort was comfy for Martinez but his superb transverse made beingness overmuch harder for the Villa keeper to tee up Martinelli for the opener earlier blazing implicit himself.

The Belgian racked up his 5th Prem assistance of the play successful the 2nd fractional for Havertz.

GABRIEL MARTINELLI – 8

Threatened astatine the acold station aboriginal on, but got his rewards from the aforesaid presumption successful the 35^th minute with a stabbed effort up of Maatsen.

KAI HAVERTZ – 8

Again, deficiency of decent work near him surviving disconnected scraps, but erstwhile helium got a scrap helium fired an effort consecutive astatine Martinez from adjacent range.

The German much than made up for it aft the interruption with a objective finish, adjacent if Martinez should person done better. That volition bash wonders for his confidence.

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RAHEEM STERLING (MARTINELLI, 82) – 6

A fewer darting runs, but added virtually nothing, different than a needless yellowish card. A cameo that screamed “lacking confidence”.