"In the first half, we played fantastically. But in the second half, Onana got injured and we lost the structure we need to stay strong in midfield," Emery said, as quoted on Aston Villa's official website.
Amadou Onana was substituted early in the second half after suffering an injury and was replaced by John McGinn. Shortly after, in the 68th minute, Arsenal opened the scoring through Gabriel Magalhaes to give his team a 1-0 lead. Arsenal then added three more goals through Martin Zubimendi (52'), Leandro Trossard (69'), and Gabriel Jesus (78').
Aston Villa were only able to reduce the score through Ollie Watkins' action (90'+4').
