Jorginho and Mikel Arteta say half-time team talk key to 'beautiful' win for Arsenal over Aston Villa

Jorginho and Mikel Arteta both said that their half-time team talk was key to Arsenal's «beautiful» 4-2 win over Aston Villa in the Premier League. Arsenal were 2-1 down at the break and staring at the possibility of another trip-up in the title race. Ad But they recovered to score three times in the second-half at Villa Park, with goals from Jorginho himself, Oleksandr Zinchenko — his first in the Premier League — and Gabriel Martinelli.

Premier LeagueKeown insists Arsenal can win Premier League title — but they need a quick response4 HOURS AGO Speaking afterwards to BT Sport about the breathless encounter, Jorginho said: «That's the Premier League. »That's why it's the best league in the world. It's just beautiful.

«It's a very important [win], after the last results we had and the start wasn't easy. We were not producing our game. »But we came in at half-time and had a talk, and then we went back to doing the basics that we needed to do, and we changed the game." INEOS declare ambitions for Man Utd after submitting bid to become majority owners Dyche checks out Calvert-Lewin’s mattress and car in bid to prevent injuries Liverpool pushing to land Mount amid contract stand-off — Paper Round Gunners boss Arteta concurred that the interval had been the turning point, whilst admitting that lessons needed to be learned from their poor first-half display.

«We showed a lot of character and resilience to get back twice in the game and end up winning it,» Arteta began. «We have to take some lessons from today because especially in the first-half we didn't do the simple things right. »But we talked at half-time, [saying] 'If we raise individual standards and start to deliver what they have to do, we're going to win this game'.