Arsenal defeated Manchester United 2-0 this evening, securing their third consecutive Premier League victory.
Arsenal may have to win almost every game they play this season to have a realistic chance of claiming the league title, and they approached this match with that goal firmly in mind. They had the ball in the back of the net shortly after the start, but it was correctly ruled out for offside.
The Gunners continued to dominate possession, though United’s defensive shape made life difficult for Mikel Arteta’s men. From the outset, Arsenal looked the better side, with Bukayo Saka causing Tyrell Malacia all sorts of problems, as expected.
Gabriel Martinelli came close to scoring before the half-hour mark but shot wide from close range. Despite their dominance, Arsenal struggled to find the breakthrough in the first half.
After Diogo Dalot missed a good chance for United, the teams went into halftime level, with nothing to separate them. Arteta delivered an impactful halftime team talk, and his players responded. Arsenal took the lead shortly after the restart from a corner, with Jurrien Timber finding the net.
Arsenal’s set pieces have been a major weapon for some time, and United appeared unprepared for their effectiveness.
David Raya made a crucial save to deny Matthijs de Ligt, keeping Arsenal in control. The Gunners continued to press, and their efforts paid off when William Saliba scored a second goal, again from a corner. Thomas Partey’s header deflected into Saliba, who celebrated with passion.
The second goal seemed to sap the energy from United, while Arsenal maintained their dominance. They could have added a third from another set piece, but Mikel Merino missed a golden opportunity.
Nevertheless, Arsenal celebrated a 2-0 victory in their 500th game at the Emirates Stadium, a fitting result for the occasion.
Great win . Onto the next
I wouldn’t say that we outclassed them. More like they weren’t up for the fight and we won and kept a clean sheet…👏🏾
They came for a draw based by the way they were set up in the first half
@SA Gunner
We see how that turned out for them…
Are you from San Antonio SA Gunner?
I think he is from South Africa.
No? 😊
I think they wanted to frustrate us and then use their pacey substitutes to nick a win in the second half. Didn’t work out for them.
We thwarted them. I spotted their coach trying to instruct his men to probe our defense by insisting Bruno makes a forward pass at a point in the game. I think they were overwhelmed by our shape and pressing.
Outclassed opponent will always look like they are not up to it. Isn’t that the meaning of the word?
@HH
Point made and taken…👍🏾
So we did outclass them, as we were up for the fight, they lost and didn’t keep a clean sheet then?
Another way of looking at it was the fourteen corners we won, versus the zero they won, or the shots on target, amount of possession perhaps?
But no, it was because they didn’t “turn up” 😡😡
Great win . Lets march on
Delighted by the win. Goals are goals regardless of where they come from
And Berbatov oozes sartorial elegance
Can’t comment at all on first 50 minutes as I missed it but no goals against is a plus
That’s the draft from a champion 🏆 in making… CoYG!
Gone are days I’ll be afraid of playing manuer utd either home or away!
Who’s next please?
Dominant performance and two set piece goals to crown the relentless team effort. Even though we could have done better with our open play but credit to Ruben’s men who tried their best to contain us. Anyway three points bagged and our attention now on the trip to West London to take on Fulham next. COYG!!!
Timber immense player saw him last season pre injury.
Am I the only one not seeing Kai Havertz’s impact? I saw Isak in action today against Liverpool, there I realized we don’t have a striker yet
Leave Havertz alone.
Why? He is the worst player in our squad, let’s say the truth for once and stop pretending. I think he lacks footballing brain. I tried yesterday to overlook his incompetence but couldn’t. It will do us a lot of good if we can get a quality striker to complement our boys effort.
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He might be the worst player as you claim, but he was better than Ødegaard last night.
I think you are noticing Havertz more at the moment because there is this new narrative that we need a so called world class (30 goals) a season striker.
So your brain is stuck on always looking out for Havertz in every game. Confirmation bias kind of thing. Once a narrative has been set we will become more focused on it and look for / make up instances to confirm that narrative that we have convinced ourselves of.
Right now it’s “We need a Top (30 goals) a season striker narrative. So whenever our attacking players don’t score or we struggle to score, people will automatically try to confirm their “We told you that we needed a striker” narrative.
That’s what I have noticed about how we think as humans.
Confirmation Bias galore.
But imagine if we had Isak in the instead of Kai
Arsenal always find the resources when their backs are firmly against the wall.
You can feel real momentum building
‘ always ‘?
Then how can you explain 21 years without a title
He just needs to stick to his guns
Yeah but we don’t always find the resources mate do we ?
Wenger was the main reason for them 21 years.
Martinelli needs to improve. His runs not productive enough and his finishing lacks quality. Arsenal needs better player on the left match Saka on the other side.
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There are certain classes of player attribute one shouldn’t expect improvement from. Those who have eyes fixated to the ball in the ground are about as impossible as it gets to really be a top player .
Martinelli has just about shown, in all, he can’t improve. Players who, about all the time, have their heads and eyes on the ground, almost never improve. They might have some sparse period of form but that’s about all it gets.
Arsenal has to move on from Martinelli.
Perhaps he will be gone, just the way he came, with Edu.
No need to repeat this dribble twice, as once was more than enough!!
Martinelli put in an excellent shift and, yet again, had to adapt to yet another change at It seems that MA is more than happy that Martinelli is playing as he’s instructed to do, otherwise he wouldn’t keep selecting him.
Not a great game at all. But a very useful 3 points in the bag. I wonder how much this playing for corners is actually affecting our build up play and finishing. We can’t win the league relying on corners. Sam Allerdice got panned for it at Bolton. Its abig weapon but we need more than that. Martinelli had what can only be described as a stinker and Odergaard wasn’t at his best, which didn’t help us. I hope the Fulham game is more of a spectacle. But another win required.
It seems you are just following the bandwagon. We scored five against Sporting and West Ham with only one Set piece goal each respectively. So just calm down, it is not always about corner kicks.
I could swear that we had one corner and two penalty goals against West Ham.
@Backbat and @Jax.
Don’t waste your time. It does not matter what you say. Some people have an agenda.
Jax, we are playing for corners and our crosses into the box are poor. I think we should be concentrating on scoring goals from build up RATHER than set pieces. Set pieces are a weapon but I think we are going to pay it, long term. We will see but I think it will bite us in the bum.
We need wins not spectacles or fancy football..
Win win win.
Not arguing there. That IS NOT what i am saying. If people are happy that that is the eay we are going then great. What i am saying is. It won’t win us anything relying on set pieces. Yesterday’s game first half was awful and our buikd up was poor. So we resorted to winning by set pieces. That is not going to win us anything, even though it on its own is a big weapon.
This is fair criticism Reggie, in our last two games we’ve scored seven goals, but only two from open play.
Jax, it seems to be the road we are going down. Now if people are happy with that, then good luck to them. But its not going to get us where we want. AND this is when we have all our players fit, so not trying to cover up injuries because of our lack of creativity or quality.
Reggie, you are on point, we had two or three good chances and failed to score. I think we should as a matter of agency fix it. We have to be ruthless in the box. I can’t understand how Odegard and Havertz missed those glorious chances.
On the bright side, we can now practice our crosses to someone and practice finishing.
Is there anything wrong with goal scored,as far as it’s legitimate?
No, but you don’t want to be too reliant on scoring from a specific situation because it’s easier for the opposition to prepare – if we come up against a team that’s brilliant at defending corners, we’ll really struggle to score. We need to be a serious threat from open play as well.
@Davi, I concur 100%.
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Godwin, it’s good that we can score from corners, but it would be ideal if we put more emphasis on goals from open play. I see we’re getting compared to Stoke under Pullis. How shite is that!!!
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a win is a win, there are times you win from open play at times you win from set piece
I wouldn’t say we are deliberately playing for corners, corners come about because we are attacking which is a positive thing surely.
Ok, but I alluded to the fact weeks ago, that we are playing for corners at times, instead of quality crosses. Yesterday for me rubber stamped it. I say what i see.
Corner kicks are not just awarded, I mean they come from pressure and attempt to score. Why did you not have the same corner kicks? United came with a game plan to stop arsenal from playing the game up front, and arsenal undid the plan with another plan. Let the best strategist win.
Reggie: spot on observation.
Arsenal were not spectacular for the reasons stated: Martinelli and Ødegaard looked like they were playing for United. Some believed the problem was Kiwior, Zinchenko, Harvertz and Arteta.
We can win the league on superiority, with set pieces being one of the many aspects.
I’d expect Arsenal scourge Fulham with the right personnel in place.
4 – 1 just for the love of our boys they have.
But football can be funny and mean at the same time. We wait.
Reggie, it can’t be affecting our build up play, as we have to be in a forward attacking position to have a chance of a corner in the first place.
Great win, a clean sheet, three points in the bag. Couldn’t ask for more! On to the next one . Most of the players were not on the game, but you still gotta win when not at your best.
Great performance!
Controlled Utd with ease in the first half without exerting ourselves, and then stepped it up in the second half, brushing them aside comfortably.
I didn’t think Liverpool would drop points at Newcastle, so it was a fantastic evening overall. Need to keep on winning and hope Liverpool keep slipping up.
Good performance and good win. Overall better than MU which was not unexpected but we need to do more in open play.
The gaffer has become a winning Monster, it would be interesting to know what the winning rate at the Emirates was before his stint.
Surely the labrador win at coloney has nothing to do with it, but it may shows the length the gaffer may go to win a game.
The bitter rivalry from Pizzagate days may have cool somewhat, but those of us old enough would know, four wins in a row against the old Trafford giant was not possible, either more time granted to the theater of dream, or sending the legendary Frenchman in the stand, something would have to give.
One cup in 5 years makes you a winning monster ?
Of all the Arsenal manager to take he has a better win rate, but I do agree for his name to be up there with the greats, he will need to bring major trophies back to the capital after a long absence
A very good win Last night, 3 more valuable points. And seeing Liverpool drop two points was pleasing to see to.
Although it’s true that we need to score during open play, I can’t understand people’s negative outlook on scoring from corners.
I even read a piece where a fan accused Arsenal of parking the bus, what game was they watching. We had 13 corners to United 0.
So that would suggest to me, that we must be in their final third a good few times during the game.
And lets face it, although its nice to see your team score in open play, do we really mind how we score goals as long as we do, surely that’s all that matters at the end of the day.
And just a thought for any of the people out there who diss corners can I just remind them, that a certain United team scored 2 goals from corners in the dying minutes of a Champions league final.
I would suggest that they don’t have anything negative to say about corners do they. (Just a thought.
Keep it going boy, (Corners and all).😊👍
Its not negative but we can not play a whole season relying on corners. It should be a weapon, not the staple diet.
Maybe you need to look at the number of goals we’ve scored from open play against the ones scored from set pieces. It’s strange you’re saying we’re relying on corners but against a team with 5 defenders that could be an option, an option we’re good at.
I slept well.Thank you team.
Arsenal all the way.
Does any goal from open play count as 2 when scored.. what make goals from set piece less of a good goal… Do people even realize that set piece happened in the first place because we are creating more scoring chances
Look at the end of the season, IF we win the league or CL, then we can praise the set piece’s (and knight sir sam🤣) but that is not a road we should be looking to win our games, first and foremost. Its a GREAT weapon but it should NOT be the road we are heading down. It on its own should not be the staple diet. It should be the dessert. I think we have to be very careful where this is going. BUT if we become the Bolton or the Stoke and win the big jugs, I wont be complaining. If we dont, i can assure you, it will be thrown at us.
People are just coping.
They have not liked and continue to dislike Arteta. So they will clutch at any straw to keep their anti Arteta agenda going.
It really is something else watching these individuals constructing / manufacturing new Talking points every season. All because they can’t bring themselves to accept that the manager has proven wrong their Doom and Gloom nonsense / prophecies going back as far as 2020 / 2021 etc..
Each and every season they have to pick up brand new Talking points to carry on their narratives. It’s so repetitive.
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Wow you are sad!!!! You can twist things better than most on here.
Hes not even worth replying to Reggie, it seems he would prefer Arteta out than a trophy to vindicate himself which is pretty sad tbh.
I just love your copium guys. You seem to get more depressed when Arteta does well for Arsenal than our rivals do.
What a conundrum you guys are always in.
Ey..
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Frankly, I don’t really understand the arguments here. Are you supporting us depending on set pieces to win games? Why making truths talking points? Not minding our various opinions, the truth remains that we should do better in open play and better still, go for a player whose business on the pitch is to score goals.
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I’m sure its not Arsenal’s intention to just get corners in games. It’s just a bi-product of when your in the final third, the odds are you’ll get your fair amount of corners.
It’s not Arsenal’s problem if the opposition haven’t come up with a way to counter act Arsenal’s corners.
No matter how you score your goals, if your team is good at scoring from set piece’s, then surely thats just another string to their bow.
I expected it to be quite simple as that to anyone with keen eye on our attacking moves. Accusing the team of “only playing for corners” is very ridiculous. I bet when opponents try prevent or minimize our set piece opportunities, in comes more open play goals. They sure can’t have it both ways. Brilliant comments by the way.👍
Throughout the Corners awarded to us I don’t see any arsenal player deliberately forcing our opponent to clear the balls to their corners.. we had 13 corners against man United because we had several balls in their final third …are you suggesting we should not play the corners awarded to us or not score from it because we did not want to be called set piece fc or stoke city…. Some complain and argument are just too ridiculous… The question is most you complain everytime.
if we don’t then we should! and if in tight spot why not kick the ball looking for it to deflect of your opponent for a corner – others teams have done for years even without Arsenal’s corner prowess, even see it done to win a throw in
I wonder what would have been said if it was man United that won us with those corners …. Their would have been endless rant about man United outclassing us with their new coach and approach.
Hardly likely😂
Doubt it.
I said in an earlier piece, that United scored 2 goals to win one of their champions league in the dying minutes, I don’t think you’ll hear them complaining.
And if by chance there are, then they’ve clearly got short memories.
Derek, it IS a weapon and united used it as a tool to win a jug. I don’t think they were reliant on ser pieces to get there. I may be wrong.
Neither are Arsenal reliant on corners, its just a bi-product of getting into the oppositions final third.
The reaction from opposing fans is laughable at best. The last time I looked, there’s nothing in the rules that says you can’t score from corners.
Its all part of the game. And if opposing fans are that rattled by it, maybe they should slate there own teams inability to defend the corners.
Just a side thought, all this zonal marking. As someone said, space has never scored a goal. (Just a thought).
Opposing fans, instead of slating Arsenal, take a closer look at your own teams.
I think your wrong here Reggie.
We’re not relying on corners, they are a by product of attacking football.
What we should be celebrating, is the fact that we’ve identified the opportunities of corner kicks and are reaping the rewards.
Agree with your comments regarding other posters by the way – I refuse to get involved anymore.
I love the rival’s tears I love hearing them complain about our set pieces I mean does every team not try and score when they get a set piece but we should feel bad about being good at them IMO every professional footballer at PL level should be able to whip in dangerous balls from set pieces consistently but that isn’t the case it seems
Good result last night. Not bothered how we score, as long as we win. Penalties, headers from corners, tap ins, free kicks or wonder strikes from outside the area, they all count.
Big shout out to Zinchenko and Kiwior, who have both come in for a lot of criticism on here. Both of them played their part in the win.
Mikel Arteta set a new record last night, becoming the first manager of The Arsenal to beat Manchester United in 4 consecutive games.
I don’t understand how an Arsenal fan would moarn when we score from a corner kick.
United played with five at the back purposely to nullify our attack.
Their shape in the first half was to slow the game and take the steam out of our free flowing game.
They wanted to hit us on the counter but failed. If their plan had worked, people would be singing how Amorin is a genius.
We had to find a way to win and we have set piece prowess in our locker. We unleashed the beast in Timber,Saliba,Partey and Rice. 3points is what we needed and 3points we got.Well done to the boys.
couldn’t agree more – even the [poor] commentary team noticed Onana taking as much time as possible out of the game from the first whistle – their game plan was clear from the moment their starting XI named, and ratified by substitutions immediately we scored
‘parking the bus’ by lower teams against superior opposition is very commonly used, and for good reason = because it works!
even the worst teams can close down the spaces and stop opponents playing their game with everyone defending the box, it isn’t always a successful strategy but much higher probability than taking on a team like Arsenal at their own game
even Arsenal use it, think when down to 10 mean at Man C, Arsenal sole intention as to get everyone behind the ball and stop Man C scoring, same when we went 1 up at Spurs
‘parking the bus’ is not effective against corners, with Arsenal expecting many opponents to ‘park the bus’ over the season then finding a solution in corners is in fact genius – those knocking it motives come in to question, as can only be a positive for Arsenal surely!
Martinelli has just about shown, in all, he can’t improve. Players who, about all the time, have their heads and eyes on the ground, almost never improve.
So also Onana looked like he was playing for Arsenal. Arteta has done really well for Arsenal, if he leaves today he paved the way for the next coach to be a success. I remember days we were called boys, Arsenal fans are easily manipulated by pundits, maybe because it’s been awhile we won the league. They did same for Liverpool before they finally end the draught
It’s a simple argument that Reggie is making so I don’t understand the backlash. Set pieces are an important weapon and are clearly working at the moment, especially with Rice and Saka feeding our talls, but there will come a time when other managers will have worked out a way to nullify this one dimensional strategy. As mentioned we need to be less predictable and more creative in open play.
Evening ladies and gentlemen
The harsh reality is we are darn good at scoring from corners
You probably already know this but everyone 10 corners per game
Average 13% are converted in to goals which is a small return
Last but not least
We are the best team in Europe to converted corners in to goals
Don’t know about you but if adds another string to our bow and we can get over the line by scoring from a corner then i will have it all day long
Last but not least
Who can disagree with me and tell me that they felt nothing when the ball went in from the corner.
Another a better feeling when we score no matter how
I thought United were an Average team who would ha e been over joyed to walk away with a point.
Plus. Maybe it was me but i thought our team looked like they were a proper team again last night
All of them looked bigger then the united players even though they weren’t. They looked like men shrugging of boys
Onwards a d upwards
Have been saying this for weeks, the league is wide open, would hardly surprise both Liverpool and Chelsea lose to Everton and Spuds respectively this weekend.