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Manchester United 2:2 Arsenal

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    Date - Tuesday, December 05 2018
    Kickoff Time - 2000 Hrs GMT
    Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester

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    League standings and form guide

    7. Manchester United: WWLDD

    4. Arsenal: DDDWW


    Previous Meetings

    Manchester United 2—1 Arsenal

    Arsenal 1—3 Manchester United

    Arsenal 2—0 Manchester United

    Manchester United 1—1 Arsenal

    Manchester United 3—2 Arsenal


    All-Time League Record

    Manchester United wins: 83
    Arsenal wins: 69
    Draws: 46


    Pre-Match Pressers

    José Mourinho



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    Team News

    Manchester United

    Victor Lindelöf, Alexis Sánchez and Ashley Young ruled out. Marcos Rojo, Matteo Darmian, Chris Smalling, Romelu Lukaku, Marcus Rashford, Luke Shaw, Antonio Valencia, Eric Bailly and Phil Jones doubtful.

    Arsenal

    Konstantinos Mavropanos, Danny Welbeck, Nacho Monreal and Granit Xhaka ruled out. Laurent Koscielny, Shkodran Mustafi and Mesut Özil doubtful.


    Know the opposition

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    Arsenal Football Club (also known as The Gunners), are a professional football club based in Holloway, London. In late 1886, a gaggle of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team. They called themselves Dial Square as a reference to the sundial atop the entrance to the factory. On December 11, 1886, Dial Square romped to a 6-0 victory over Eastern Wanderers; the first game in their initial guise. Shortly afterwards the name ‘Royal Arsenal’ was adopted. Today, Arsenal are one of the most successful and popular clubs in the history of the English league, with a trophy haul than includes 13 League titles, 12 FA Cups, and 2 League Cups.

    When Henry Norris decided that Arsenal needed a new manager in the summer of 1925, he could never have anticipated the impact of his next appointment. After flirting with relegation in the previous season, Chapman set about reinventing the Club with almost immediate effect, and in a broader sense helped move football from the amateur era into a professional one. In his first season at Highbury, the new manager steered the Gunners to an FA Cup Quarter Final and a second-place finish in the First Division; the highest league placing in their history. And unlike many of his contemporaries in Britain, Chapman was a fan of the continental game and counted among his friends Hugo Meisl and Jimmy Hogan, coaches of the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930s.

    In the mid '90s, they appointed another visionary in Arsène Wenger with former vice-chairman David Dein bringing him to the club in 1996 - Dein actually wanted to appoint him a year earlier before Bruce Rioch but the old school board did not want a foreign manager - and the next 20 years have been a remarkable and unforgettable period in the club’s history - with Arsenal building a reputation for playing an attractive, streamlined style of football that rivals some of the best teams in Europe while winning three league titles and seven FA Cups and boasting the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pirès, Cesc Fàbregas and Robin Van Persie in their ranks.

    The club plays its home games at the Emirates Stadium, and has a bitter sporting rivalry with neighbors Tottenham Hotspur in a match termed the North London Derby, apart from a competitive rivalry against the other major clubs of the Premier League, especially Manchester United - in an affair that peaked in the late 1990s to early 2000s period.


    Familiar Faces

    Daniel Welbeck (2001-14), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2016-18)

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    Referee

    Andre Marriner.​
     
    Surely there will be loads of empty seats for this one? I'd absolutely 8-2 be there.
     
    Yeah.. I'm not staying up till 3:30 to watch this.
     
    I'm not staying up to watch us if this timing is actually correct. No sane person should be actually.
     
    Just want to see Shaw, Pogba, Martial down the left, and Fred starting which is as likely as me using a spoon to get the jam out instead of just sticking with the knife I used for buttering.
     
    Lose this badly, Mou will lose OT and they’ll be no way back.
     
    We will lose this. Arsenal are not playing badly at all. Be shocked if we got anything at all out of this.
     
    Have a terrible feeling about this game. Might end like the Spurs game at the start of the season. That Torreira guy will eat our midfield.
     
    Jose must be dreading this game. Lose and he might be out much earlier than expected. Don't tell me he won't be fired before it's being mathematically impossible to make the top 4. It's not true.
     
    A midweek evening game against a high flying Arsenal side, while we start the game at 8th place, are in awful form and our manager might be in trouble if we lose. I feel like we've been here before.
     
    Who do we have left?

    Limped off today:
    - Shaw
    - Rashford
    - Lukaku

    Can only assume Smalling is injured too given he didnt make the bench.
     
    Expecting us to lose, something like 2-1, so I'll be thrilled if we get anything out of this game.
     
    RedSky said:
    Who do we have left?

    Limped off today:
    - Shaw
    - Rashford
    - Lukaku

    Can only assume Smalling is injured too given he didnt make the bench.
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    Think he is hopeful that Smalling and Bailly could recover and he said he took Rashford off because he was tired, so should be fine.
     
    DomesticTadpole said:
    Think he is hopeful that Smalling and Bailly could recover and he said he took Rashford off because he was tired, so should be fine.
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    Young is suspended as well. He took him off because he was tired? That makes it worse, thought he was injured. Sigh.

    So I guess we go back to Martial - Rashford - Lingard

    Is Valencia injured because we'll have problems at fullback given Shaw limped off and Young suspended. We'd have to use Dalot + Valencia. Dalot as a LB and Valencia as a RB.
     
    RedSky said:
    Young is suspended as well. He took him off because he was tired? That makes it worse, thought he was injured. Sigh.

    So I guess we go back to Martial - Rashford - Lingard

    Is Valencia injured because we'll have problems at fullback given Shaw limped off and Young suspended. We'd have to use Dalot + Valencia. Dalot as a LB and Valencia as a RB.
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    Matic at fullback? :lol::nervous:
     
    K2K said:
    Spurs beat us 3-0 there and it was used as a sign of progress.
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    Team didn’t lose badly against Spurs though. Was a bit of a freak result given relative performances.
     
    God knows what sort of an abomination of a squad Mou will cobble together for this game.

    With the injuries and his steadfast refusal to try and play anything other than dour defensive football its going to be interesting.

    At least when we had a settled back line with Smalling and Lindelof recently there was the beginnings of a back line that could be somewhat trusted. Now that's been taken away from Jose and he's likely to double down on parking the bus.

    After Pogba's display and that of Matic we need to change the midfield. I'd say Fellaini too even if he's not been bad in comparison to those two. Start with Fred, Herrera and Pereira in the middle of the park if playing three there and play with with something resembling 1 touch football and quick passes.

    You've got Pogba and Fellaini on the bench as potential impact subs. Defensively we'll have whatever is cobbled together but against a better side than Southampton we need some way to relieve pressure on the back line further up the pitch whether it be pressing forward or actually keeping possession in more advanced areas of the pitch.

    Admittedly just removing Pogba and Matic taking a literal age on the ball might relieve enough pressure on its own by not conceding repeated dangerous counters.

    Still I'm not expecting much and I suspect like the Palace game I'm going to leave OT offended at how much it costs me to watch soulless effortless shite again.

    Then again knowing Mourinho we'll pull off some shite skin of the teeth win in order to extend his time in the job.
     
    K2K said:
    It will be weird not having Wenger in the opposing dugout..

    I have great respect for that man.
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    Even though he had years of underperformance in the league?
     
    This won't be a pretty watch. The form we're in, we could do with an international break!
     
    We're going into this game clearly out of form. We have been since the season started. However, people wrote us off against an in form Chelsea, where, had it not been a last second goal by Ross Barkley we'd have taken three points at Stamford Bridge, and fullly deserved it, in my opinion.

    Arsenal seemed to have upped it this season, but they've been quite lucky this season. If we can play like we did at Chelsea, then I see no reason why we shouldn't be beating Arsenal.

    I would like to see a 4222

    De Gea
    Young Smalling Jones Shaw
    Herrera Fred
    Lingard Pogba
    Rashford Martial​
     
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Score Predictions

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  • Man Utd win
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Detailed Results

  • 16% Man Utd 1:3 Arsenal
  • 13% Man Utd 1:2 Arsenal
  • 12% Man Utd 0:2 Arsenal
  • 10% Man Utd 2:1 Arsenal
  • 9% Man Utd 1:1 Arsenal
  • 7% Man Utd 0:3 Arsenal
  • 6% Man Utd 1:0 Arsenal
  • 4% Man Utd 0:5 Arsenal
  • 3% Man Utd 2:2 Arsenal
  • 3% Man Utd 0:0 Arsenal
  • 3% Man Utd 2:0 Arsenal
  • 2% Man Utd 5:0 Arsenal
  • 2% Man Utd 1:4 Arsenal
  • 2% Man Utd 0:4 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 3:2 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 0:1 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 3:0 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 3:1 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 2:3 Arsenal
  • 1% Man Utd 2:4 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 3:3 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 1:5 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 5:5 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 4:3 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 4:5 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 5:2 Arsenal
  • 0% Man Utd 5:4 Arsenal
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Possession
45% 55%
Shots
10 9
Shots on Target
7 4
Corners
4 4
Fouls
13 10

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