I know how frustrated we all are at not taking maximum points at Villa but please understand that football players are human beings, not robots; machines.
The team we put out on the park contained 9 current full internationals and Arteta who is magnificent nonetheless. We had 5 internationals on our bench and it's only a matter of time before Coquelin joins them in having that honour.
Sagna and Wilshere have only just come back from serious injuries and if you were ever going to give them a rest, it would have been against one of the bottom sides which Aston Villa are.
The team that was on the park yesterday was good enough to beat anyone in the league but they just looked very flat: Montpellier 3 days ago made sure of that. The French team didn't sit back and try and absorb the pressure, they pressured Arsenal every minute of the game and the gunners had to work overtime to overcome them.
Why is it that Man.Utd have an extra day to recover and Man.City plus Chelsea an extra 2 days?
Clean sheet is excellent, performance average.
I wonder what some of you may say if Wishere and Sagna were to suffer injuries again because they were played when they were obviously exhausted? It's when players are in that condition that they succumb to injuries more often than not.