Date - Wednesday, January 1 2019
Kickoff Time - 2000 Hrs GMT
Venue - Emirates Stadium, London
League standings and form guide
5. Manchester United: WDLWW
12. Arsenal: WLDDL
Previous League Meetings
Manchester United 1—1 Arsenal
Arsenal 2—0 Manchester United
Manchester United 2—2 Arsenal
Manchester United 2—1 Arsenal
Arsenal 1—3 Manchester United
All-Time League Record
Manchester United wins: 83
Arsenal wins: 70
Draws: 48
Pre-Match Pressers
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Mikel Arteta
Team News
Manchester United
Eric Bailly, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Marcos Rojo, Diogo Dalot and Scott McTominay ruled out. Paul Pogba doubtful.
Arsenal
Rob Holding, Sead Kolašinac and Kieran Tierney ruled out. Granit Xhaka, Dani Ceballos, Héctor Bellerín, Gabriel Martinelli, Sokratis and Calum Chambers doubtful.
Know the opposition
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
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Referee
Chris Kavanagh.
