Ramsey is one of only a few Premier League players who could score the goal he managed against Aston VillaIf you were searching for 10 seconds of footage to demonstrate the concept of a box-to-box midfielder,it would be difficult to find anything more fitting than Aaron Ramsey’s goal in Arsenal’s 2-0 victory at Villa Park.
In a flowing move described simply by Arsène Wenger as “the way we want to play football”, Ramsey touched the ball just twice. The first was a crunching tackle on the edge of his own penalty area, or dispossessing Idrissa Gueye and setting up Arsenal for a counterattacking opportunity. The moment was the simplest of finishes,inside the Villa penalty box, converting Mesut Özil’s typically selfless pass – the German’s 13th assist of the Premier League season. Between the two touches was something equally famous – a 70-yard run which took him past six Villa players.
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Source: theguardian.com