Jorginho reveals half-time team talk resulted in ‘beautiful’ Arsenal win against Aston Villa

Jorginho’s stoppage time strike bounced in off former Gunners goalkeeper Emi Martinez before Gabriel Martinelli secured the win minutes later.

“That’s the Premier League,” he said.

“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.”

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted after the game that at half-time he urged his players to raise their individual standards.

"We showed a lot of character and resilience to get back twice in the game and end up winning it," said Arteta.

“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’.

"In the second-half I think we outplayed them, we created chance after chance, we dominated absolutely the game.

"We needed a magic moment and Jorginho produced it.

"When you want to be at the top, you have to win in many different ways."