He's like a robot programmed to blow the whistle when the crowd shout at him
FA Cup 3rd Round
Arsenal 1:1 Manchester United
Man Utd win 5:3 on penalties
Emirates Stadium
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- Sun, 12 January 2025 @ 3:00pm GMT
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He's like a robot programmed to blow the whistle when the crowd shout at him
Until it rains, that colour is dripping straight off his barnet.Ref has been a complete homer.I’ve seen the last 5 televised arsenal games. At the start of the season I thought they were brilliant. I now know they are just cheats. I haven’t seen a team as bad as this since Mourinho and his Chelsea team with Drogba played Chelsea in the champions league over a decade ago. Arteta makes Simeones football look exciting. They’ll never win the Premier league under him.Defensively, we've been fairly solid, but it's clear that when our wing-backs contribute little to the attack, we become completely devoid of creativity in the final third.
In the second half, we need to push them higher up the pitch to apply pressure on Arsenal's backline and create some real attacking threat.Well, we're still in the match and we've defended well
Arsenal are a horrid team these days. Really cynical and with an ugly spiritVery solid defensive display. We are waiting for a chance to break but i think we need Amad on. I expect to see him on 60 minutes if theres no change in the score or we go 1 down.Soft free kicks galore for Arsenal but we don't get a blatant one from a goalscoring chance.Both teams giving each other too much respect. Just there when their midfiled passed the ball to their LB, Mazraoui was marking Martinell, and DeLigt was close to him, not marking anyone. Mazraoui needs to be higher and MDL should be marking Martinelli no?Difficult watch for a United fan. Defended well in our low block but very little quality in the build up. Two bookings if are worrying for us, it’s going to be tough for them two in the 2nd half. Goal was rightly ruled out for offside though I admit that the new rule change has muddied the waters a little, it’s just that the ball looked like it rebounded off Maguires foot as he’s running instead of trying to pass or clear the ball.Come on United. So glad we are more solid out of possession nowadays.Arteta has definitely beat the Pep-wannabe allegations. Now his best comparison is Big Sam.I wonder if this has always been the standard of reffing in this country and it only gets more noticeable the more the game moves away from allowing contact.
Or the suit is one size too smallRef is the worst I've seen this season, and that is saying something.
Get Martinez off as he is a tackle away from a red.
Rasmus offers us nothing and I'm starting to think we should just play Garnacho through the middle and bring Amad into the team.Half-time NewNo chance we finish the game with 11 hereWe’re playing with 10 men. Hojlund is so bad, he could as well sit in with the crowd considering how much of a passenger he is.I very, very rarely complain about a ref but he has been rubbish.
Nope. Neither have Arsenal.The referee blows for every Arsenal player who needs it. He does a very good b. Job.Don't worry Arsenal will ran out of players soonNot been pretty but we've done OK and towards the end of the half we put 1 or 2 passages together
Arsenal absolutely reffing the game though, falling over at every opportunity, screaming in agony at the slightest of touches and surrounding the ref at every breakdown (I thought only captains could talk to the ref now? Arsenal must have 10 invisible armbands over those stupid white shirts)
Starting to sense a little frustration from them though, hopefully we can put some more pressure second halfOur use of the ball has been very, very poor. We have to be a lot better on the ball. However, our defending has been okay for the most part. If we can be better in possession we can win this. Big if though given how basically everyone has been treating the football like a live grenade.
Of course city and Liverpool are who they are, but based on football and fanbase Arsenal are up there with the most annoying in football.All those injuries couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of cheats
Arsenal do so much time wasting on goal kicks, free kicks and corners, it's like American Football time out, discussing plays etc.
Honestly seemed like their keeper was purposely delaying a corner for a minute so we'd lose concentration and they'd bag a cheap goal.
Our wing backs are not the problem, our midfield can’t gain control of this game and Bayinder is cheaply giving the ball away. If we get a level of control our wings backs will be able to contribute more in the build up and attacking third.What an awful game
But we can still win!And they spend the whole time bitching about Arsenals disallowed goal.Lads in the studio, it's a clear offside. Move on and talk about the decisions that have gone against us.feck off LinekerI don’t know why but Arsenal just boil my piss. They are easily my least favourite team currently. Horrible manager, cheating players, weak as feck mentality. They probably manage to beat us today but they play absolute shite in a stick football. The ref has then managed to make it all about him. Hes given every challenge as a foul to Arsenal and given us absolutely nothing. He’s blown up so often he’s completely killed the game and played into Tony Pulis Arsenals hands. Hope we can find a quicker gear because I’d bloody love to beat these tossers.The fact they're even discussing that offsideDecent defending but we look absolutely dead up front. Need some magic from BrunoWill be a big help if Odergaard goes off.
Not a classic by any means, defending very well though. Could definitely do with an out ball, Bayindir's kicking hasn't helped that but Hojlund just struggles to hold the ball up.Poor quality on show here by both teams. Arsenal very one dimensional. They aren’t a threat at all other than from set pieces which we’ve dealt with so far. We’ve defended well but offered literally nothing at the other end of the pitch. Ref has been absolutely awful, it’s literally 12 vs 11 out there. He’s constantly falling for their theatrical dives & stupid antics.We need to offer more when we do get the ball, we've struggled to build anything either playing short or long balls/balls in to the channels so we need to improve in that respect. Defensively we've worked hard and kept it tight with Arsenal doing their usual of looking at set pieces to break the deadlock, overall a pretty dull game so far.And now we spend half time analysing a goal that was clearly offside. You couldn’t make it up!Its offside lads, no need to debate it so much.Awful first half, not helped by Arsenal falling over at evey opportunity and taking 5 minutes on every set piece.Hopefully we show a bit more attacking intent in the second half.Ref is a joke, the Bruno one obviously, but all 50/50s going against us as usual- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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15%
Harry Maguire
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13%
Matthijs de Ligt
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2%
Bruno Fernandes
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1%
Manuel Ugarte
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 336 ratings.
Score Predictions
73,69,20
- Man Utd win
- Arsenal win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 25% Arsenal 1:2 Man Utd
- 17% Arsenal 2:1 Man Utd
- 12% Arsenal 2:0 Man Utd
- 8% Arsenal 3:1 Man Utd
- 6% Arsenal 0:2 Man Utd
- 6% Arsenal 2:2 Man Utd
- 6% Arsenal 2:3 Man Utd
- 6% Arsenal 1:1 Man Utd
- 4% Arsenal 3:0 Man Utd
- 3% Arsenal 0:1 Man Utd
- 2% Arsenal 1:3 Man Utd
- 2% Arsenal 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Arsenal 0:0 Man Utd
- 1% Arsenal 2:4 Man Utd
- 1% Arsenal 0:3 Man Utd
- 1% Arsenal 6:2 Man Utd
- 1% Arsenal 0:5 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Arsenal
- Man Utd
- Overall possession
- 70.3% 29.7%
- Shots
- 26 7
- Shots on target
- 7 4
- Total touches in the box
- 55 13
- Goalkeeper saves
- 3 6
- Fouls
- 10 25
- Corners
- 12 2
Referee
Andy Madley
Man Utd Lineup
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replaced by Tyrell Malacia
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replaced by Toby Collyer
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replaced by Joshua Zirkzee
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replaced by Amad Diallo
