The Gunners were beaten 3-1 by Villa, the start to the campaign that manager Arsene Wenger did not want as pressure continues tomount over a lack of new signings in North London, with not one penny of their transfer war chest yet spent.
Arsenal did make the perfect start when Olivier Giroud put Arsenal infront after six minutes, producing a great finish following great work from Alex Oxlade Chamberlain down the left.
But Arsenal were pegged back just 16 minutes later, with Christian Benteke heading in the rebound after his penalty was saved by Wojciech Szczesny, who looked to have redeemed himself after bringing down Gabriel Agbonlahor for the spot-kick.
Santi Cazorla was on the bench at the start of the game after being in Ecuador with Spain in midweek, but Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger threw on the Spaniard immediately after half time.
The pressure mounted on Villa as Giroud twice went close to doubling his tally, and Tomas Rosicky engineered an opportunity to get into the box but failed to test Brad Guzan in the visitors' goal.
Fabian Delph almost gave Villa the lead against the run of play, but Arsenal survived when his shot bounced back off the post. Moments later though, Arsenal conceded a second penalty after Laurent Koscielny fouled Agbonlahor, and Benteke steppedup to make no mistake with this time.
Arsenal's bid to get an equaliser suffered a body blow as Koscielny was given a red card, and Villa held firm when Guzan produced afine reflex save to tip Cazorla's effort onto the bar.
And for all of Arsenal's attempts tohit back, instead they conceded a third through debutant Antonio Luna after he was put through by Andreas Wiemann.
Liverpool had new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet to thank for their 1-0 win at home to Stoke City, as he saved a late penalty to deny thevisitors a point.
Daniel Sturridge scored the only goal of the game in the 37th-minute after drilling in a 22-yard effort beyond Asmir Begovic.
Mignolet struggled to deal with several Stoke crosses into the Liverpool area, and he nearly cost his new side as Robert Huth hit the bar with a header.
Jordon Henderson was thwarted by the post as Liverpool pushed for a second goal, and Begovic was forced into two excellent saves to keep out Philippe Coutinho.
Stoke looked as though they weregoing to claim a point under new manager Mark Hughes when they were awarded a spot-kick after Daniel Agger handled in the box. However, Mignolet ensured he would keep a clean sheet on his debut by saving from Jon Walters in the 88th-minute.
Joe Cole and Kevin Nolan gave West Ham a 2-0 win over last season's Championship winners, Cardiff City.
Matt Jarvis was the provider for Cole to open the scoring after 13 minutes as his low cross enabled Cole to spin and fire his shot at goal. Nolan then doubled the lead 14 minutes from the end when heblasted in his first-time shot beyond David Marshall.
Norwich and Everton played out an entertaining 2-2 draw at Carrow Road. Norwich led through Steven Whittaker, but two goals in the space of four second-half minutes saw Everton turn the game around. First, Ross Barkley levelled with his first-ever Premier League goal before Seamus Coleman turned the gameon its head.
But the Canaries were not to be denied a point on their own turf as Ricky van Wolfswinkel marked his first game for the club with the leveller.
Rickie Lambert, who scored on hisEngland debut in midweek, converted a 91st-minute penalty to give Southampton a deserved 1-0 win over West Brom. And Pajtim Kasami bagged the only goal for Fulham as Martin Jol's men collected maximum points at a new-look Sunderland.
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Liverpool 1
Stoke 0
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Arsenal 1
Aston Villa 3
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Norwich 2
Everton 2
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Sunderland 0
Fulham 1
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West Brom 0
Southampton 1
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West Ham 2
Cardiff City 0
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