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PRESSURE arrives at Villa Park on Monday night in a form Unai Emery has never known here, with the champions in town, the transfer window shutting the following day and a squad that had no recognised striker available last weekend. Ezri Konsa returns to face the club he left for Arsenal this month. Aston Villa were humiliated at the Amex. Emery’s side conceded four times inside 31 minutes, Pau Torres‘ wayward back-pass gifting the opener before Maxim De Cuyper and a Jack Hinshelwood double finished the job, and £38m debutant Joao Gomes was sent off for violent conduct just before the break. It made Villa only the second side in Premier League history to concede four, pick up a red card and score an own goal all inside the first half, after Southampton against Manchester United in 2020-21. The summer behind it has been brutal. Morgan Rogers, Konsa, Youri Tielemans and Lucas Digne have all gone, four of the side that started May’s Europa League final, Ollie Watkins is closing on an Al-Hilal move after being left out of the squad at Brighton and Emiliano Martinez is pursuing an exit of his own. Villa have retained just 65.6 per cent of last season’s league minutes, the lowest figure in the division, and are working on Leon Goretzka plus a striker before Tuesday’s deadline. Contrastingly, Arsenal could hardly be in better shape. The reigning champions opened their title defence with a 3-0 win over Coventry through Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and captain Martin Odegaard, a week after beating Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shield. Konsa was paraded in front of the Emirates crowd before kick-off following his £55m switch from Villa Park, and Mikel Arteta had the luxury of introducing Mikel Merino and Martin Zubimendi with the game already won. 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Forced to use Emiliano Buendia as a false nine at Brighton, Villa managed five touches in the opposition box across the entire afternoon, two of them before the red card. Expect something far more conservative on Monday, a deep mid-block built to deny Arsenal the space in behind that Brighton exploited, with almost nothing to offer on the counter unless a forward arrives in time. The greater worry is inside their own area, where three of Brighton’s 21 shots came directly from Villa errors and two were converted, and where Brighton’s 3.54 expected goals from open play was the highest Emery has faced in nearly four years in the job. Arsenal are built to punish precisely that. Arteta’s side were among the most prolific set-piece scorers in the division last season and Havertz feeds on deliveries into a congested box, which is exactly where Victor Lindelof lost runners on the south coast. With William Saliba and Jurrien Timber both sidelined, Konsa is likely to start in the centre of the Arsenal defence against the club that sold him, while Declan Rice and Odegaard should have the run of a Villa midfield cut down to Ross Barkley, John McGinn and Lamare Bogarde by Gomes’ three-match ban and Amadou Onana‘s ACL injury. Expect Villa to sit deep, stay compact and make this awkward for a spell, because Villa Park under the lights is still a hostile night out and Emery has recovered from worse starts, having gone until 21st September without a league goal last season and still qualified for the Champions League. But a team that cannot get bodies into the opposition box does not score, and Arsenal have the control and the dead-ball threat to settle this without ever needing to chase it. 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