PS: Jamie Jackson’s report on the pre-match protests.
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Here’s David Hytner’s report from Old Trafford. Thanks for joining us.
Mikel Arteta spoke to Sky: “We had some unbelievable situations but we didn’t get the last shot or the last pass. We didn’t capitalise, we rushed the game, we started to lose duels and we could have ended up losing it…The execution has to be in to the right player and the right player to shoot. How we conceded [chances] in certain moments was not acceptable. They have so much quality and they pick the right player and normally that would end in a goal.
“We opened the gate to lose the game. there was no chance to lose the game and we opened it ourselves. I will defend my players all the time but in those moments we have to do better.”
Ruben Amorim spoke to the BBC: ““It helps when you score a goal and don’t suffer [conceding first], you can feel the energy in the stadium. In this moment, we try to win games, be compact. We were so near in the second half to score a goal. We were really competitive and I think that is important. We pushed forward and not back. We had some situations to win the game. Arsenal put a lot of men inside the box to win and I think Alejandro Garnacho did a complete game and that helped us a lot.”
Goalscorer Declan Rice spoke to Sky Sports: “In the first half, we had some beautiful bits of play but didn’t have that cutting edge. In the second half, we were very naive and almost gave the game to Man United. To get back in the game and to score and keep pushing. It’s probably a fair point in the end.
“We scored seven midweek and that’s not luck. PSV hadn’t lost at home for two years. Man United did well and sat in the low block well. it can take 90 minutes to break that down. There wasn’t much in the game.
“Like the manager said, we’ll keep going until the end of the season. Liverpool have been amazing all year. We’re Arsenal. We’ve been hit hard by injuries. We’ll keep going and we’ll be alright.”
Ramesh in Forest Gate: “Declan Rice shushing the crowd and celebrating his goal rather than picking up the ball and heading straight back to the half-way line sums up why Arsenal aren’t winning the league. Regardless of the injuries, there’s not enough experienced leaders (and Rice is meant to be one of them) or winners with the mentality required to get over the line.”
Dan Christmas is back: “The worst thing about the current ‘handball law’ is that if an attacker had done that and put the ball in, it would’ve been handball. Actually, the worst thing is being called an Arsenal fan...”
Adam Roberts: “I don’t know about Dan Christmas but when I was young the idea that these ‘handballs’ could be penalties would be met with ‘Behave’.”
The table: sorry reading for Arsenal. Two points from nine possible has cost them. United, in 14th, are just a point short of the magical 35-point total. They’ve got 10 games to make it 40.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Liverpool | 29 | 42 | 70 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 28 | 28 | 55 |
| 3 | Nottm Forest | 28 | 12 | 51 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 28 | 17 | 49 |
| 5 | Man City | 28 | 15 | 47 |
| 6 | Brighton | 28 | 6 | 46 |
| 7 | Aston Villa | 29 | -4 | 45 |
| 8 | AFC Bournemouth | 28 | 13 | 44 |
| 9 | Newcastle | 27 | 8 | 44 |
| 10 | Fulham | 28 | 3 | 42 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 28 | 3 | 39 |
| 12 | Brentford | 28 | 4 | 38 |
| 13 | Tottenham Hotspur | 28 | 14 | 34 |
| 14 | Man Utd | 28 | -6 | 34 |
| 15 | Everton | 28 | -4 | 33 |
| 16 | West Ham | 27 | -15 | 33 |
| 17 | Wolverhampton | 28 | -19 | 23 |
| 18 | Ipswich | 28 | -32 | 17 |
| 19 | Leicester | 28 | -37 | 17 |
| 20 | Southampton | 28 | -48 | 9 |
Andy Flintoff: “It’s disappointing for fans of 80s Sheffield synth-pop that Ayden Heaven wasn’t given the squad number 17. Surely they could have persuaded Garnacho to move to free it up?”
Insert Penthouse and pavement gag here.
To set aside any reffing complaints, did Arsenal actually play well enough to beat a United team that’s the worst in decades? Not in this view. They were impotent first half and then oddly nervous in the second. The equaliser should have signalled a rousing push for the win. In fact, it was United who might have stolen it. The easiest – and best way – to win is to claim victory for yourself, not via the back door of VAR and the like.
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Dan Christmas, an Arsenal fan presumably calls “referee!”: “I know Heaven headed it on to himself by accident, but surely there’s got to be something given when the ball virtually settles on both arms. Definitely one of those situations that makes me wonder if they should just give every handball as handball, forget deliberate or natural silhouette etc. That’s how we all played it in the playground/field/any bit of open ground, isn’t it?”
Full-time: Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal
That means Liverpool need 16 points from nine games. Arsenal are dejected. It took David Raya’s save to stop them suffering a worst day. United played well in the second half. Perhaps all is not lost for Ruben Amorim. Declan Rice scored a fine equaliser. It won’t be enough to stop Arsenal being the bridesmaid for the third season running,
90+4 min: Raya ran back to scoop the ball away as Colyer chased the rebound. The game closes out with Arsenal unable to make much of a free-kick despite some obvious anxiety among the United defenders. That’s all, signals referee Taylor.
90+3 min: Oh my! So close. Fernandes runs on to the ball. Laid on a plate and Raya pulls off a quite amazing save! The ball spins clear. It looked a certain goal!
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90+2 min: Arsenal go close….Martinelli….from Onana’s parry. Offside saves the Arsenal man’s blushes.
90+1 min: Raya’s goal-kick is poor too. If getting it launched is coming back into fashion, the keepers must do their bit.
90 min: Lindelof on a long run, sets up Garnacho, who uses Colyer as a dummy and then shoots. It flies over. Four minutes will be added on.
89 min: Garnacho’s weaving run is wasted by Fernandes’ poor pass. Heaven makes another tackle. Fernandes has hurt himself in the act of trying to make up for his mistake.
88 min: Heaven, against his old club, has put it about, just as much as Lewis-Skelly. The fearlessness of youth.
87 min: Chance for United. Colyer sets up Hojlund but in comes Gabriel to rob his moment of truth. He bangs the ground (drums?).
85 min: There’s a winner to be found here. Arsenal look by far the more likely.
83 min: United have pushed up, and Merino loses the ball in front of his own goal. It comes to Hojlund. Is this his moment? No, Declan Rice pulls off a tackle. No penalty. Arsenal soon counter, Tierney fizzing wide. End to end.
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81 min: Onana called into action again, Martinelli’s shot. There’s a series of corners. Lewis-Skelly is in the middle of it all. Then a call for a VAR pen for pushing. Waved away.
79 min: United last lost at Old Trafford when winning at half-time in May 1984. These records do keep falling. Was that the Ipswich game? Yes, it was. Jason Dozzell and all that? Winner scored by Alan Sunderland, a portentous name in United history.
78 min: Mazraoui and Fernandes exchange passes but the skipper can’t get enough purchase on his shot.
77 min: Garnacho’s cross, De Ligt’s header is too weak to beat Raya. The game opening up?
76 min: United changes: Eriksen off for Colyer, Zirkzee off for Hojlund. Tierney is on, too. Partey is the man departing.
75 min: Rice celebrates, but alone. His teammates want to resume the game and go for the win. A break is taken where Ramadan-observing players are given chance to sate themselves. The sun has just dropped.
Goal! Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal (Rice, 74)
Rice, from the edge of the box, smashes it.
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73 min: VAR check – no handball from Heaven. The youngser next pulls off a fine tackle to rob Martinelli.
72 min: United in a full defensive five now, with three shielding that. Raheem Sterling, linked with United last August, sits and watches. Kieran Tierney is coming on instead.
70 min: Long delay, more farting around, and Garnacho as draft excluder. It hits the wall. The United wall jumped forward. Casemiro’s bonce nods the ball clear.
69 min: Arsenal have a free-kick in the position where Fernandes scored from. Did Lewis-Skelly dive? Yes, but free-kick given. Mazraoui measures the distance to be 10 yards.
67 min: Onana takes a goal kick and shanks it way out of play. It’s a lost art the keeper who can thwack the ball to the halfway line from a goal kick. Steve Ogrizovic must be raging in his Coventry mansion at the loss of his art. Dave Beasant said to be angry, too.
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65 min: Another corner, conceded by Lindelof. This one is taken short, and eventually, Trossard scuffs the ball wide.
63 min: Arsenal try to find their way through, Casemiro chasing down shadows on the edge of his box. Garnacho gets his first go at Lewis-Skelly, who is strong, too strong, and and commits a foul.
61 min: Arsenal corner. Onana comes way out. Panic stations, averted when Gabriel cleans out Mazraoui. Arsenal have become more…physical.
59 min: Two Arsenal changes. Lewis-Skelly and Martinelli on, Calafiori, toasted, goes off, as does the quiet Nwaneri. Zirkzee then almost pulls off a flicked finish.
58 min: Did Merino deliberately stand on Garnacho? It looked that way. VAR doesn’t bother looking at it.
57 min: Some hurried United defending as Arsenal attempt to pass through them. Raya is at the halfway line. Everyone is back for United. It’s a long time to defend so deep.
56 min: United are getting more confident in attack. Arteta is getting ready to make changes. Big roars from the home fans as De Ligt crunches Merino.
54 min: Close! Zirkzee shrugs off Saliba, Dalot plays it to Mazraoui, whose volley is well saved by Raya. That could be a crucial moment.
52 min: Zirkzee clears the latest corner, Calafiori attacking the ball as he did so.
50 min: A flurry of Arsenal chances. Odegaard from distance, and Onana is ruled to have palmed over. Then Rice gets a swing at a volley, a decent chance. Arsenal resume their corners at the United end.
49 min: Will United fans regale Ayden Heaven to either of these songs?
Or the Roses’ Breaking Into Heaven?
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47 min: The free-kick’s wall was 11.2m, according to Sky’s boffins. Meanwhile, Mazraoui goes on a burst and Arsenal have to clear. United are targeting that right-hand side. Garnacho goes on a dribble. He’s having Calafiori on toast, which sounds like a rather nice dish, an entree, perhaps.
Back underway at Old Trafford
46 min: And there’s been a change. Leny Yoro was too sick to continue and Ayden Heaven is on.
Crispin gets in touch from LA: “Disagree that Raya had no chance. He set the wall badly, invited the right footer to curl it into the empty space and then was nowhere close to saving it when Bruno hit the obvious spot. It wasn’t even right in the corner.”
So, perhaps he gave himself no chance.
Joe Pearson: “About Nicolas Jover’s waning efficacy: the rest of the league has had 28 matches (and more) of tape to watch. Just sayin’”
I saw Austin McPhee draw a blank yesterday at Brentford, too. Is it the end for set-piece experts? Gone the way of chimney sweeps?
Chris Finnegan: “You’ve nailed it with this Arsenal strip. After my star-crossed wedding we had three tables in the pub: my mates on ‘Highbury’, hers on ‘Highfield Road’, and us in the middle, dubbed ‘Wembley, 16 May 1987’. “‘Gary Mabbutt’s Left Knee’ had been mooted but ultimately deemed ‘open to deliberate misinterpretation’. “
Pete Smith: “Regarding the farting around at corners, if a goalie holding the ball for 8 seconds results in a corner, then will excessive farting around at corners result in a goal kick? Or does the world continue to be massively biased against defenders?”
The rest of you have spent your time with the Stone Roses’ rather thin back catalogue. If only they had made that album in 1990 rather than wait for the Second Coming. (Bought on the day it came out, not played at all these days.)
Tim Woods: “If Amorim is looking for his own Stone Roses song, I’d suggest How Do You Sleep?. For ABUs of a certain age, I’d suggest United’s current team fits with What The Worlds Been Waiting For (which is also a cracking tune).”
Sean Kane: “What about ‘Tightrope’? Would seem to have foreseen the current United set-up. Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand Waiting for the waves to come and …..? Alternatively from the same era (and a comparatively excellent band): Suede - The Drowners!!”
About 35 mentions of “Going Down”, too.
Ollie gets in touch: “As a German, this match really motivates me to practice my English grammar. So let me try: drab, drabberer, drabberest – right?”
Half-time: Manchester United 1-0 Arsenal
The half closes with United on a promising attack. From going nowhere, United got somewhere, and Bruno Fernandes struck. Arsenal’s dominance drew a blank and Calafiori’s struggles with Garnacho were an achilles heel.
45+3 min: Nicolas Jover, head in hands? The wall offered Bruno where to shoot and he hit it up and over, and into the net. Raya had no chance.
Goal! Manchester United 1-0 Arsenal (Fernandes, 45+2)
It’s a beauty! What a free-kick.
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45+1 min: Booking for Trossard, sold short by Calafiori letting go of Garnacho. Free-kick outside the Arsenal box.
45 min: A dazed Zirkzee leaves the field. Tell him he’s Ruud? He comes back on again. Four minutes added on.
43 min: Partey clatters Zirkzee, and there’s a break in play. Amorim is issuing instructions and he has a big smile on his face. He often does. He has a sunny disposition considering he is in charge of football’s biggest doom factory.
42 min: The Arsenal fans targeting referee Anthony Taylor, Altrincham’s most famous supporter. Why? Who knows? Previous case history?
40 min: Nwaneri is offside. Arsenal are slower than they were in previous seasons. Perhaps that’s to conserve energy but they were prettier on the eye in 2022-23 and 2023-24.
39 min: Arsenal have had 70% of the ball. They’re still level with this toiling United fun bus.
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37 min: Nwaneri has been quiet but comes to the fore. Zirkzee, yet quieter, is muscled out by Saliba. The ball just won’t stick for United. They are getting hurried along in defence, too.
36 min: Home fans groan as their team deliberates on the attack. Merino finds Odegaard, whose shot is blocked. Now there’s boos as Dalot takes his time over a throw.
34 min: A glimmer for United as Fernandes and Eriksen exchange passes. Zirkzee seemed to be looking in the opposite direction. Trossard then gets another sighter. Game opening up?
33 min: The Arsenal fans are taunting Onana on the ball. That can’t be helping his nerves. There’s some of the “woaaaaaahh, you’re [expletive] ah” going on, too. Old school. Are they bored?
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31 min: Trossard surges on and shoots, but wide.
29 min: Timber on the overlap, but ends up fouling De Ligt. United try to press Arsenal but that falls short when Casemiro can’t keep his end up. Arsenal go on the attack but are again wasteful. Going to pieces in the box.
28 min: Trossard wins a corner. A lot of farting around ensues. And Onana collects. Arsenal’s potency at these situations has dropped right off. Jover’s taken them as far as he can?
27 min: This game has an end of season feel. Both teams perhaps thinking of other targets.
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26 min: Mazraoui and Merino collide. It looked like Merino’s foul but it goes the other way. Partey gets a glimpse of goal but his shot is blocked.
23 min: Talking of blunt attacks. Garnacho has the ball but struggles to find teammates and angles to work with. There’s little impetus.
22 min: An injection of atmosphere from the Stretford End: “We want Glazers out.” A perennial favourite. Arsenal continue to dominate but are struggling to locate the final ball.
20 min: Odegaard finds the ball in the loose but drags it along the ground and to Onana’s palms. Imagine if Arsenal had a striker, he says, asking the most asked question in football
19 min: A Doctor Creepen gets in touch: “I think the appropriate Stone Roses song for this current Man Utd team is Fool’s Gold, for hopefully obvious reasons.”
18 min: Amorim prowls the sideline, his trousers looking half-mast. Though at least he won’t get any mud on them.
17 min: The usual load of movement, Rice whips in, and Onana punches clear. Partey chooses to win a throw rather than launch a cross in. Possibly with Jover in mind.
16 min: Arsenal win a corner. Initialise Nicolas Jover….
15 min: Another United attack. Fernandes releases Garnacho who fancies it against Calafiori, though his ball across – neither cross nor shot – finds nobody. Zirkzee was closest.
14 min: Peter Oh’s in: “‘This Is The One’ is a great tune, but for this current version of Manchester United, the more appropriate Stone Roses song is ‘I Wanna Be Adored’.”
13 min: A United attack, Garnacho down the wing but the ball cleared with some ease by Arsenal. Arsenal resume their dominance of possession. They may be the Raymond Poulidor of the affair, but they are so much better than United.
12 min: Yoro will be ok, it seems. He’s taken a tablet for something. And is now swallowing, though with difficulty.
10 min: Arsenal go close. Odegaard drifts on, and Merino has a snap shot, but wide. Yoro is down.
9 min: Arsenal are full of confidence, as they are entitled to be after a 7-1 win. United are not exactly engaged in what you might call high pressing.
7 min: Old Trafford’s fervour has descended. United’s players will have to win the crowd over. Rice and Odegaard link and there’s hesitation in the United box. Onana eventually comes to the ball.
6 min: Eriksen appears to be playing inside-left. Novel. Partey leaves a boot in on Garnacho, and the Dane can swing the ball in. It misses everyone, Yoro closest. Declan Rice was all at sea, worried Casemiro might get there.
5 min: Yoro goes on a run, Dalot tries to whip the ball in. He and Mazraoui are asked to do an awful lot, and are perhaps not so capable.
3 min: Nwaneri seeing plenty of the ball. He’s taking the ball towards the Arsenal fans, who are loud. Then some confusion, and Merino almost steals in. Would a proper striker have stolen that? Onana claims.
Kick-off at Old Trafford
1 min: We begin with an early foul, and some Arsenal passing. Their Coventry City in 1987 shirts pour forward. Leny Yoro and Lindelof have to take early evasive action.
Old Trafford is in full voice. Just as it was when these games were a battle for the top honours. Arteta and Amorim go for a bro-shake and hug. The sun is out. Bring it on.
Simon McMahon, the Bard of Caledonia, gets in touch: “Afternoon John. With no game this weekend for the real United - of Dundee, just in case you were wondering - football mad daughter Evie and her boyfriend Ryan are at Old Trafford today for their fix of live action. Ryan’s an Arsenal fan, but even he knows the league is over, and Evie only cares about (Dundee) United, so she’s not bothered and will enjoy the novelty of being able to buy a beer at the game which we’ve not been able to do up here since Celtic and Rangers fans decided to riot in 1980. Maybe a 4-4 draw would be good, so if you could see to that, thanks. And cheers!”
Enjoy, Evie and Ryan.
The Stone Roses are blaring, and that means the team are coming on. This Is The One, music made for a spring day. Still glorious, despite its latterday association with United’s fall.
Mikel Arteta also spoke to Sky: “Today we have a big opportunity in an incredible stadium to be ourselves and earn the right to win the game.”
“They change a little bit. They have been quite consistent in their approach. The profile of players changes everything in football. An attitude and the way we behave. Regardless of how we play, we always have the same intention.”
Ruben Amorim spoke to Sky: “It is important this game. I don’t want to put the young players in at this moment, the other guys have to step up in this moment. We know what kind of team we are going to face. Any bad result here is a problem.
“Our focus is to win the game - it is quite simple. We have to use that energy. The minimum is to give them everything and finish the game with nothing to give.”
“That energy” refers to the fan protests.
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Richard Hirst: “Looking at the strength, or otherwise, of the Man Utd bench I almost, but not quite, feel sorry for them. How can the self-described ‘biggest club in the world’ have come to this? It takes almost unimaginable skill - stand up Sir Jim.”
Only Hojlund has made a PL start, the rest are teenagers. Efficiency or foolhardy?
Earlier in the battle for the top four.
Martin Crookall replies to the other Martin: “In response to Martin Lancom, Thursday night just past.”
Following this game, and Chelsea’s defeat of Leicester, here’s how the table stands. Long way down from Arsenal to United.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Liverpool | 29 | 42 | 70 |
| 2 | Arsenal | 27 | 28 | 54 |
| 3 | Nottm Forest | 28 | 12 | 51 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 28 | 17 | 49 |
| 5 | Man City | 28 | 15 | 47 |
| 6 | Brighton | 28 | 6 | 46 |
| 7 | Aston Villa | 29 | -4 | 45 |
| 8 | AFC Bournemouth | 28 | 13 | 44 |
| 9 | Newcastle | 27 | 8 | 44 |
| 10 | Fulham | 28 | 3 | 42 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 28 | 3 | 39 |
| 12 | Brentford | 28 | 4 | 38 |
| 13 | Tottenham Hotspur | 28 | 14 | 34 |
| 14 | Everton | 28 | -4 | 33 |
| 15 | Man Utd | 27 | -6 | 33 |
| 16 | West Ham | 27 | -15 | 33 |
| 17 | Wolverhampton | 28 | -19 | 23 |
| 18 | Ipswich | 28 | -32 | 17 |
| 19 | Leicester | 28 | -37 | 17 |
| 20 | Southampton | 28 | -48 | 9 |
Karen Asad: “Been binging Dexter Original Sin over the weekend and got me thinking: if you wanna keep making money out of an old franchise, you gotta have expert people in charge like they do on Dexter. Just saying!”
Rick Harris: “I totally get why Kobbie Mainoo wants to get away not just from Old Trafford, but from the Premier League too. His skill set will be of interest to plenty of clubs in La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 and he isn’t burdened by a salary that none of them can afford to pay or better. Without a doubt he would also grow as a person if exposed to a different culture and if he chooses wisely he would not be rained on every other week.”
Martin Lancon asks: “When was the last time not a single UK player on Man United starting lineup?”
So does Mary Waltz: “John. Morning greetings from Free State California. When I first started following the PL 20 years ago I picked Everton as my team. At the time they were a mid table team who had aspirations and memories of better times. Then we tumbled down the table and relegation has become a regular threat. I never imagined that mighty MANU could ever join us at the bottom of the table. Ut won’t happen this year but United in the Championship in a year or two is a possibility. The World turned upside down.”
Colum Farrelly gets in touch: “I keep reading about Amorim’s inflexible approach to team formation but the only constant is the three at the back. Even then the personnel change all the time. The central midfield two can be any combination of six individuals and the forward line can be one, two or three strong. And poor Zirkzee can be slow any any one of many places. Today’s team is yet another combination. Whatever else about him, inflexible he isn’t.”
One Arsenal change to the starting line-up from Eindhoven in midweekiss Riccardo Calafriori preferred to tough tackling’s Myles Lewis-Skelly at left-back. Mikel Merino plays the Tim Cahill role of converted midfielder.
For United, Rasmus Hojlund has been dropped after 19 games without a goal. Joshua Zirkzee will lead the line and, with Bruno Fernandes moving into the frontline, Christian Eriksen comes in to partner Casemiro in what may not be the most mobile midfield. Victor Lindelof replaces Patrick Dorgu and will play as one of the three-man defence. Manuel Ugarte and Harry Maguire are out with injury and likely to be missed.
There’s insurrection in the air at Old Trafford, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family’s names being taken in vain. To say Big Sir Jim’s honeymoon period is over is to underplay things. BSJ has been spotted, too.
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The teams
Man Utd: Onana, Lindelof, de Ligt, Yoro, Mazraoui, Eriksen, Casemiro, Dalot, Garnacho, Fernandes, Zirkzee. Subs: Mee, Harrison, Hojlund, Heaven, Amass, Collyer, Obi, Fletcher, Moorhouse.
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Odegaard, Partey, Rice, Nwaneri, Merino, Trossard. Subs: Neto, Tierney, White, Martinelli, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Sterling, Lewis-Skelly.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
This story reflects the general state of Manchester United.
“I will not have the time Arteta had – I feel that. It’s a different club. So we just need to survive with the players [available] on Sunday. I think it’s a different club – in that aspect, the way Arteta dealt with that is an inspiration for everybody but I will not have the time like Arteta had.”
“I’m very used to people speaking about me, judging my performances and I do that myself,” said the 26-year-old. “I’m harder on myself and I know that I have not been good enough, especially in front of goal. I work hard every day to improve it and I know I have the ability and the talent to do it. PSV Eindhoven was good and hopefully now I can do more towards the end of the season.”
Pre-match reading ii) Me, John Brewin on the Manchester United pundit class. Thanks to our picture desk, unsung heroes, for that snazzy composite.
Pre-match reading i) Barney Ronay on the Gunners still being good.
Preamble
Another afternoon edition of the black comedy that is Manchester United in 2025. The visitors this time are Arsenal, for whom the chase for the Premier League may be dwindling. When Darwin Nunez is scoring vital goals in the race, the goose is probably cooked. Nevertheless, Arsenal must push on and on, and if they show anything like their form in Eindhoven – winning 7-1 – then it’s going to get ugly for United. Uglier, at least. Ruben Amorim has an idea up his sleeve, it just happens to be the same one as the last. He’s confident it will come off one day. It couldn’t be today, could it?
Kick-off at 4.30pm. Join me.
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