Arsenal vs Manchester United 4.12.2024 KO 20:15 GMT

[HCZ_Reborn]

Since Wenger left us, only Liverpool have more premier league points against Man United than we do.


We’ve won 7 out of the last 12 games. 5 at home, 2 at Old Trafford


Of course that’s not to say tonight will be an easy three points, United have actually conceded fewer goals than us this season. Their main issue has been their lack of goals.


Rashford likes scoring against us, so we need to make sure he gets as little space as possible as along with Fernandes he will be their main danger man

I think we also need to be patient, not panic if we are not winning at half time. It’s a must win of course but we’ve seen what happens when we overcommit and give teams space on the counter

[Marc Overmars]

Always a fixture with plenty of drama but one we tend to come out on top in.

I hope I’m laughably wrong but I have a feeling we could suffer with a bit of a new manager bounce tonight.

2-2.

[Letters]

I'm worried about the new manager bounce too, but we are in good form so....I hope we win, tbh.

Let's say 2-1 to Arsenal. We cannot afford to slip on this banana skin.

[IBK]

I'm worried about the new manager bounce too, but we are in good form so....I hope we win, tbh.

Let's say 2-1 to Arsenal. We cannot afford to slip on this banana skin.

I recknon it'll be 2-1 also...

[Mac76]

0-3 Rashford hatter

[Mac76]

I'm worried about the new manager bounce too, but we are in good form so....I hope we win, tbh.

Let's say 2-1 to Arsenal. We cannot afford to slip on this banana skin.

notwithstanding my other reply I think this is about right, they will put up a fight but we really ought to be able to deal with them if we play like we have recently

Will be at the game and looking forward to it, despite the ridiculously late KO

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

This is the last of the traditional top 6 teams we will be playing this half of the season. We've only beaten Spurs away and drawn the rest from winning positions.

On paper, this is the weakest of the lot and we are playing at home. Our usual, try to take the lead and defend it approach is what I expect the manager to try again. It has not succeeded 3 out of 4 times so I'd expect it to fail especially against a Man U whose DNA of late goals is still their somewhere.

We need to batter them. Do exactly what Liverpool did to Man City. Go after them from the get go till the final whistle. I don't expect Arteta to do it, but that's the only way I see us taking 3 points today, as I fully expect the "establishment" to be behind Liverpool now, which will obviously aid another "establishment" team, Man U for today.

[HCZ_Reborn]

notwithstanding my other reply I think this is about right, they will put up a fight but we really ought to be able to deal with them if we play like we have recently

Will be at the game and looking forward to it, despite the ridiculously late KO

Yeah I don’t see the need for the kick off time, from what I can see we are the only London team playing in the capital. And United fans have got to make the long trip back to Surrey

[HCZ_Reborn]

Gabriel and Calafiori likely to be out tonight

[dazthegooner]

Team to play Man Utd: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Martinelli, Saka, Havertz.

Subs: Neto, Tierney, Heaven, Jorginho, Merino, Nwaneri, Trossard, Sterling, Jesus.

[Mac76]

Zin and Kiwior on our left is a worry to say the least

That said Rashford isn't starting which, given his record at the Emirates, is bizarre

[dazthegooner]

Well we have Tierney on the bench if he's got a new pair of crutches he might get a few minutes in place of Zin :blink:

[Marc Overmars]

Kiwior and Zinchenko :lol:

Dear me.

[Mac76]

Kiwior and Zinchenko :lol:

Dear me.

We need to hope the new Man Ure manager doesn't realise what a weakness it is

[HCZ_Reborn]

Their lineup doesn’t exactly strike fear either

[dostoy]

Kiwior is OK but Zinchenko is a liability.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think Man Utd might struggle to get out of midfield at points but probably panic stations when they do.

[Letters]

Right.
Come on, you twats. Let’s twat these twats

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Partey missed a sitter.

[Letters]

Oh Partey :doh:

[Letters]

This is not a great game so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Partey has one game out, comes back and puts in a stinker.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This has been such a tepid performance so far.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Dalot should have put United ahead

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT.

That was terrible.

[Letters]

What a dull game :sleep:
Utd have come to contain and frustrate us and so far they’re doing it well.
Have to step up 2nd half

[HCZ_Reborn]

Feels to me like we are more worried about them hitting us on the break, Dalot has Marshalled Martinelli well unfortunately but Malachia looks out of his depth and it’s him we need to exploit

[Marc Overmars]

Quite shit.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Partey and Rice are pointless in this game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

TIMBER!!!!

[Letters]

GET IN!!

Loads better in this half.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Saka should have scored

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saka should do better.

[Marc Overmars]

Quite annoying how much later this kicked off to the Liverpool game now we know what a win here will do.

[Letters]

Saka should have scored

He should, although I think the flag had gone up

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Zinchenko had a mare there.

[Letters]

Oh Zinchenko :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good save from Raya.

[Letters]

What a save from Raya!

[dazthegooner]

Good save Raya

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli and Zinchenko off, Trossard and Merino on.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Trossard and Merino on, Zinchenko and Martinelli off

Im assuming Partey will go to right back and Timber to the left

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rashford gifts us a corner. :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Saliba!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

SALIBA!!!

[Letters]

SALIBA!!

[Letters]

Literally came off his arse :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good save from Onana from Havertz

[Letters]

Should have been 3, just wide from Marino.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Merino should score.

[Letters]

What a ball by Saka!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Clever routine but nothing comes from it.

[Letters]

Well worked free kick from ManYoo, good save from Raya.

[HCZ_Reborn]

United get a free kick for Merino getting the ball off Antony but not Kiwior pulling at Zirkzee’s shirt


Hmm ok anyway decent free kick routine but saved by Raya in the end

[Letters]

Oh don't start that "ole" shit, that never ends well.

[Letters]

Great work by Trossard, good block from the Utd Defender

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 FT. Lovely how routine it is beating Man Utd at home. :bow:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Great work by Trossard, good block from the Utd Defender

Decent cameo he’s had, unlucky not to have a goal to his name tonight

[dazthegooner]

So we start the day in 2nd win 2-0 and end the day in 3rd :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

2-0 FT. Lovely how routine it is beating Man Utd at home. :bow:

And on our 500th game at the Emirates stadium no less

Certainly less dramatic than the previous two home wins against them

[Letters]

Poor first half, excellent second.
Utd did very well to contain and frustrate us in the first half.
Soon as we got the goal they had to open up a bit and we pummelled them after that. Get in!

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

So we start the day in 2nd win 2-0 and end the day in 3rd :lol:

Well Today, we were always going to end up in 3rd with the way Chelsea has been playing.... I'm just glad its only due to goal difference.

[Marc Overmars]

Champagne Stoke :bow:

Our set piece threat is quite hilarious.

Good win and encouraging to cut a little bit of the gap on Liverpool.

[HCZ_Reborn]

At the risk of sounding like I’m damning them with faint praise, I don’t think United were terrible tonight

Some of our set pieces were ridiculous, and actually some of their defending was quite good. I think Dalot, Mazraoui and De Ligt had decent games…and De Ligt surely would have got on the scoresheet if not for Raya

I think we played within ourselves a bit, perhaps a bit too respectful of the ability of the United players to catch us on the break

[HCZ_Reborn]

Well Today, we were always going to end up in 3rd with the way Chelsea has been playing.... I'm just glad its only due to goal difference.

Playing Southampton for almost an hour with an extra man tends to help

Plus in the last three league games they’ve both scored and conceded the same amount of goals as us

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Champagne Stoke :bow:



:lol: :gp:

[Letters]

At the risk of sounding like I’m damning them with faint praise, I don’t think United were terrible tonight
They're clearly the weaker side and came to try and frustrate us. They did that excellently in the first half which made it a dull game.
We came out with more purpose in the second half and as soon as we got the goal though they had to come out more and that created gaps. After that we thumped them. We should have got more really. It was just nice to get a routine win in a game which was a real banana skin.

[HCZ_Reborn]

They're clearly the weaker side and came to try and frustrate us. They did that excellently in the first half which made it a dull game.
We came out with more purpose in the second half and as soon as we got the goal though they had to come out more and that created gaps. After that we thumped them. We should have got more really. It was just nice to get a routine win in a game which was a real banana skin.

Not disputing that they are the weaker side, but as I say in the opening post they are defensively solid, and it wasn’t just tonight where that’s proved to be the case. The Liverpool and Spurs defeats have been outliers of a team that is a hard nut to crack.

Going forward?, there wasn’t much there. I think they have players with potential but I think it was rather summed up by Garnacho turning Timber I think it was brilliantly in the first half but ultimately couldn’t even win them a corner


We did dominate after we took the lead, but I think it was good defending on their part that stopped us from getting a third


We bamboozled them from set pieces but the deliveries from both Rice and Saka were so good at times, it would have caused most defences to struggle

[HCZ_Reborn]

:lol: :gp:

Anyone watching that game who didn’t at least once cast their mind towards Rory Delap and a beach towel is a god damn liar :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

https://youtu.be/Xx4rG3IEMuo?si=taTprEjneUNwtWUo

He’s been!!

I won’t lie, I quite like Goldbridge. He’s very fair minded when it comes to Arsenal

[WMUG]

Anyone watching that game who didn’t at least once cast their mind towards Rory Delap and a beach towel is a god damn liar :lol:

I didn't, but only because I've got a very good PTSD therapist.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I didn't, but only because I've got a very good PTSD therapist.

I had a client yesterday who wanted a diagnosis of PTSD so he could go back and tell his ex that was the reason he was such a dickhead. I had to tell him I don’t do diagnostics (and I don’t think he has PTSD in any event, but of course I didn’t tell him that).

[WMUG]

I can imagine that's quite common, people wanting a diagnosis to justify shit behaviour.

(I was joking about having a PTSD therapist, just to be clear!)

[HCZ_Reborn]

I can imagine that's quite common, people wanting a diagnosis to justify shit behaviour.

(I was joking about having a PTSD therapist, just to be clear!)

Really? I wouldn’t have known :lol:

[WMUG]

I'm talking to the one person on here who might have taken that statement seriously :lol:

[Mac76]

https://youtu.be/Xx4rG3IEMuo?si=taTprEjneUNwtWUo

He’s been!!

I won’t lie, I quite like Goldbridge. He’s very fair minded when it comes to Arsenal

Hilarious, a bit of BS about Timber pushing but otherwise he's reasonably fair as you say

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

https://youtu.be/Xx4rG3IEMuo?si=taTprEjneUNwtWUo

He’s been!!

I won’t lie, I quite like Goldbridge. He’s very fair minded when it comes to Arsenal

:lol: :lol: "Where's Scooby"..........really enjoyed this clip.

[IBK]

https://youtu.be/Xx4rG3IEMuo?si=taTprEjneUNwtWUo

He’s been!!

I won’t lie, I quite like Goldbridge. He’s very fair minded when it comes to Arsenal

'It's just Scrappy Dappy Doo - Where's Scooby?' :haha: