Thierry Henry has told Arsenal what they must do to recover from their damaging home loss to Manchester City.
Goals from Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland saw the champions make a huge title race statement to leapfrog above the Gunners into top spot in the Premier League.
Arsenal could not cope with Pep Guardiola's side in the second half after an even opening period, which saw Bukayo Saka equalise just before half-time.
And now Henry, part of Arsenal's last title-winning team 19 seasons ago, says the Gunners must react as quickly as possible to the setback.
He said: "They came to your place and beat you – can you know show that you can respond?
"Since the beginning of the season Man City was responding to what you were doing. Now, can you keep your composure?
"Go to Aston Villa and rectify that straight away at the weekend and show you can be with them all the way and try to do something at their ground, because now it’s going to be very difficult.
"Just stay calm. You lost against a great team today, we mentioned they had Foden and Akanji come on – do you have the same bench at Arsenal? I’m not too sure, but keep your composure, you lost that one it doesn’t mean now that everything now has to go in the bin.
"Keep your composure and go and rectify that game against Villa and see what you can do – you still have a game in hand, but now it’s going to be tough though.’
He added: "I wish we had more points, the Brentford game was massive also. It was always going to happen in a season where you’re not going to win maybe two or three games.
"You fall so now you’ve got to stand on your feet after that along the way, so hopefully we can do that but Man City are used to that type of role and that type of battle for the title."
