[Lucky McLuckerson]

.....................VS...........................

Date: Sunday, September 04 2022
Kickoff Time: 1630 Hrs BST
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

League standings and form guide

5. Manchester United: LLWWW
1. Arsenal: WWWWW


Previous League Meetings

Arsenal 3—1 Manchester United

Manchester United 3—2 Arsenal

Arsenal 0—0 Manchester United

Manchester United 0—1 Arsenal

Arsenal 2—0 Manchester United


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 84
Arsenal wins: 73
Draws: 49


Pre-Match Pressers

Erik ten Hag




Mikel Arteta





Team News

Manchester United

Anthony Martial, Facundo Pellistri and Brandon Williams ruled out. Victor Lindelöf, Luke Shaw and Aaron Wan-Bissaka doubtful.

Arsenal

Thomas Partey, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Reiss Nelson ruled out. Aaron Ramsdale and Martin Ødegaard 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

N/A.


Referee

Paul Tierney.​

 

[Samid]

Must win.

 

[calodo2003]

I hate these cnuts.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Won't be easy

 

[TMDaines]

Feels as if the only decision to be made is whether to go unchanged again, or whether to start Antony or Ronaldo over Elanga.

Wouldn’t start Casemiro. Eriksen and McTominay look better.

 

[charlenefan]

Change the winning team. Casemiro and Ronaldo have to start. No more Rashford through the middle or Elanga. Shame Antony won't start

 

[peridigm]

Erik ten Hag's first real test.
Worried as we're light on goals. Hopefully Antony can start or come on and help with that.
A win would be a huge statement for our season and top 4.

 

[Sweet Square]

3 - 0 United.

 

[2 man midfield]

If we win this then we’ll have some serious momentum.

 

[The Brown Bull]

Just win. Please.

 

[tidraKS]

Ronaldo for Sancho, Antony for Elanga. I’d like to see Casemiro too, but McT and Eriksen have been great.

 

[Mike Smalling]

Is Antony starting completely impossible? I don't feel like Ronaldo, Elanga or Rashford should be starting.

 

[Real Name]

Expect and hope for a similar game as vs Liverpool. Press them, unsettle them, go into them.

 

[RedDevilRoshi]

Will take a scrappy underwhelming 1-0 win here. Basically any win.

Just bring that deluded lot crashing back down to reality.

 

[Lewnited]

I doubt that winning team will get us far in this game, it has no ability to regain control of a game once it's lost. Bring Casemiro in for one of Bruno and Eriksen in midfield. Start Ronaldo at #9 with Rashford and Sancho on the wings.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Erik ten Hag's first real test.
Worried as we're light on goals. Hopefully Antony can start or come on and help with that.
A win would be a huge statement for our season and top 4.

We already played liverpool.

 

[royboy16]

Think there will be goals.
3-2.

 

[CarbonStoolBites]

We’ll beat them and bring them back down to earth.

 

[Red Dreams]

We are gonna rip the 2wats apart

 

[IrishRedDevil]

I reckon they still have a soft core. Let’s find it and eat it.

 

[Wayne's World]

Hate these bastards so into them from the first whistle

No Odegaard would be a massive loss for them too

 

[RedPed]

No way ten Hag starts with the same team on Sunday. Please, no Elanga and Rashford. Praying that Antony starts.

Fecking hate the Gooners!

 

[peridigm]

We already played liverpool.

meh

 

[AjaxCunian]

DDG
Dalot Varane Martinez Malacia
McTominay Casemiro
Antony Bruno Sancho
Ronaldo/Martial

 

[Telsim]

Hope Odegaard is out.

God help us...

 

[Adamsk7]

Really hope Martial is back because we need a player up front the ball will stick to.

They are having a great start to the season but we will be the best team they’ve faced so far.

 

[BEST No7]

This is the 1st real acid test. Massive chance to derail their lucky start (fixtures). Every game feels like a final ATM for us, that's not always a bad thing. Win this and we're away and flying

 

[ThinkTank@Cafe]

We have Varane and little Ramos. No worries

 

[BrilliantOrange]

I think Antony will start

 

[VP89]

Is Antony starting completely impossible? I don't feel like Ronaldo, Elanga or Rashford should be starting.

Id say so. Ten Hag was refusing to confirm if hed even be ready to be part of the squad. Antony has missed weeks of training with Ajax

 

[Ayoba]

Casemiro needs to start. Would love to see Antony but I think he'll be on the bench. Hopefully Martial is fit

 

[Relevated]

Will be very fired up for this. Ronaldo should start, so should Antony. Antony Will overly cover Ronaldos lack of work rate since it'll be his first game. Casemiro should start which will be a huge boost of momentum.

Really need eriksen for 45 mins too.

This game is crucial

 

[abailey123]

Casemiro surely comes into the midfield for this one in place of Scott?
Ronaldo in for Elanga and Sancho to the right. Can’t see ETH throwing Antony straight in.

 

[Castia]

Massive game

Exciting times if we get the 3 points

 

[Shark]

It'd be like United to piss on Arse bonfire.

 

[Red Royal]

Casemiro surely comes into the midfield for this one in place of Scott?
Ronaldo in for Elanga and Sancho to the right. Can’t see ETH throwing Antony straight in.

That is exactly what I would go with. Depends how Rashford and Martial are to see if they can swap too.

 

[Green Yellow Red]

Ronaldo should start v Arsenal

De Gea
Dalot - Martinez - Varane - Malacia
Casemiro - Eriksen
Sancho - Bruno - Rashford
Ronaldo

 

[CarbonStoolBites]

Lads, its Arsenal.

 

[horsechoker]

Haggis' first real test

 

[SER19]

If martial is fit id start him, and bizarrely keep rashford in team as I think he can be useful in a very small amount of games like this. Obviously if Antony is available then rashford is a sub.