Post Match Reactions - Round 31

[JB@Norwich]

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[Ian]

Aston Villa 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Our opponents obviously did some home work on us for this game and on another day this match could have turned out much worse for us than it actually did. We went a goal down around midway through the first period but held our nerve and it wasn't that long before we were back on level terms. The game was very even and we got what proved to be the all important goal shortly before half time.

[Steve@ManUtd]

MANCHESTER UNITED 1-0 Burnley

Another wasteful day of finishing to be truthful from us. We should've had more goals but kept the tie on a knife edge with the score, despite the relatively one sided nature of the tie. We do need to find a more clinical edge for sure, I'd like to think we'd have more goals as a unit this season but there are times where we've not been good enough, so it's something to work on for the final few games.

In the end we got the 3 points we came for, it's all we're bothered about now, with 7 games left we just have to keep going and try to keep winning to finish as high as we can.

[Darren]

Arsenal 4 - 3 Barnsley

It took seven goal thriller in the way of Arsenal to secure back to back wins for The Gunners with the winning goal coming via the way of an own goal. Arsenal included recent signings Mamardvili and Kulusevski in their starting line up following their moves from Barcelona and it didn't take Kulusevski long to make his mark with a goal after just one on minute but Barnsley did get back in it and at half time tied at one a piece, not many expected a second half to go the way it did.

An end to end forty five minutes saw Barnsley take the led before goals from Isak and Locatelli put the home side in front but Barnsley were far from finished and got back into it once again before an own goal from Edgar gifted the win to Arsenal which in all fairness was nothing more than they deserved after being the much better of the two sides throughout the game.

The Arsenal boss spoke after the game ;

" It was about getting the three points from this game, nothing less and although we were sloppy at the back, we were good going forward and managed to get the win and with some of the other results going our way, puts us back into a good league position. We were better than them on the day and to have walked away with less than three points would have been harsh and i is a hard way to lose a game via an own goal so we do feel for them but from our point of view, we got out of jail with the own goal and gifting us the three points

We said last week that this run of games we are now entering we cannot allow any slip ups and to get two wins on the bounce will certainly help us put the pressure on West Ham and Man Utd and all we can hope is they slip up and we take advantage of that "