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Arsenal 2:0 Manchester United

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    Date - Wednesday, January 1 2019

    Kickoff Time - 2000 Hrs GMT
    Venue - Emirates Stadium, London

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    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

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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.


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    Referee

    Chris Kavanagh.​
     
    Team should be...

    -----------------De Gea-----------------
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
    ----------Fred----------Matic----------
    Greenwood-Pogba-Rashford
    -----------------Martial-----------------

    Subs: Romero, Jones, Young, Mata, James, Andreas, Lingard

    Hopefully McTominay is back so he can play in place of Matic
     
    De Gea
    Wan Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Shaw
    Matic Fred
    James Pogba Rashford
    Martial​

    Not sure if we'll start Greenwood, toss up between him and James. Hopefully a start for Pogs. Good to have Matic back as hes the only one who can hold the midfield if McTominay is gone. Rest of team picks itself.
     
    Gotta fancy our chances against that defence. 3-1 United.
     
    Still remember the sheer amount of just fecking score chances we missed there last year with Xhaka scoring the most ridiculous goal ive seen in a while to really rub it in.
    Funnily enough we seem to deal with pace well, its the physical battle that sometimes lets us down. Arsenal dont have that.
    3-0 and we pretend its another big game win despite them being 11th.
     
    De Gea
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
    Fred--Matic
    James--Pogba--Rashford
    Martial

    Subs: Romero; Jones, Young; Pereira, Lingard, Mata; Greenwood

    Unsure about James or Greenwood but James has worked vs the big teams so far so I'd keep him in and Arsenal will likely give us space.​
     
    We will smash these twats. We're far too devastating on the counter for them.
     
    Got an extra days rest and even rested Pogba and AWB.

    Will be a tough game as ever but I'm confident. If they defend as they have been doing then there are goals for us.

    Matic hopefully can play as he did tonight again. Thought he did well alongside Fred who just keeps getting better and better.
     
    De Gea
    AWB - Lindelof - Maguire - Williams
    Matic - Fred
    Pogba
    James - Martial - Rashford​

    James ahead of Greenwood - he’ll get space in behind whoever Arsenal play at LB.
     
    Really difficult to predict. Us winning 2 on the bounce so probably Arsenal win.
     
    Don't know if already mentioned, but this is a huge test for Solskjær.
     
    Why did I think we had them at home. Bollocks.

    Apparently they looked much sharper against Bournemouth there the other day? Might be tough, this.
     
    ----------------De Gea------------------
    AWB-Lindelof-Maguire-Shaw
    -----------Matic---Fred--------------
    ----------------Pogba------------------
    James----Martial------Rashford
     
    I'm wary of Arteta, I'm sure he's an excellent coach, he's been working under Pep for a while now. That being said, I think our front 3 should annihilate them on the counter, especially with Pogba back. I live with an Arsenal fan so this is going to be very sore for one of us.
     
    I'm wary of Arteta, I'm sure he's an excellent coach, he's been working under Pep for a while now. That being said, I think our front 3 should annihilate them on the counter, especially with Pogba back. I live with an Arsenal fan so this is going to be very sore for one of us.
    City have fallen apart since he left, Arteta was the mastermind all along!
     
    We'll get an idea of how much of a threat they'll pose against us tomorrow when they play Chelsea...
     
    De Gea
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Williams
    Fred--Matic
    James--Pogba--Rashford
    Martial​

    Greenwood as an early sub. Would love to see him brought on at half-time but since nobody brings players at half-time anymore (ah, good old days!) at least 65th minute.

    Not sure why Pogs was missing today. Hopefully was just rested exactly for the sake of the Arsenal game.
     
    I won't play Matic against Arsenal. Credit is due for his good performance against Burnley but they are not a team who press a lot. Matic is slow, not a type of player who wins 2nd ball and Arsenal game doesn't suit his style.

    De Gea
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Shaw
    Fred--Pogba
    James--Pereira--Rashford
    Martial
     
    I reckon that AWB, Shaw, Greenwood, Lingard and Pogba will be nailed on starters. They were rested for a reason.

    Between Fred and Matic, Fred deserves to start based on form. But Matic might be the safer option alongside Pogba against Arsenal's attack.
     
    I'd like to try this out but I know it won't happen.

    De Gea
    AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Williams
    Fred--Pogba
    Greenwood--Rashford--James
    Martial
     
    If Pogba is fit enough to start, he will over Matic. I would love to see Ole dropping Lingard from the squad to send a message. We have Mata in case a replacement is needed.

    Big game for Greenwood if he starts, but if we are playing on the counter I rather start with James.

    Hope they run ragged tomorrow against Chelsea.
     
    With Pogba rested, I expect us to smash these miserable cnuts.

    DT to implode yet again.

    AFTV : Arteta has to go chapter 1.
     
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Score Predictions

208,52,62
  • Man Utd win
  • Arsenal win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 25% Arsenal 1:2 Man Utd
  • 16% Arsenal 1:3 Man Utd
  • 12% Arsenal 1:1 Man Utd
  • 10% Arsenal 0:2 Man Utd
  • 7% Arsenal 2:1 Man Utd
  • 5% Arsenal 2:2 Man Utd
  • 4% Arsenal 0:3 Man Utd
  • 3% Arsenal 2:0 Man Utd
  • 2% Arsenal 0:1 Man Utd
  • 2% Arsenal 0:0 Man Utd
  • 2% Arsenal 3:1 Man Utd
  • 2% Arsenal 1:4 Man Utd
  • 2% Arsenal 0:5 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 2:3 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 2:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 5:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 0:4 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 3:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Arsenal 1:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Arsenal 3:2 Man Utd
  • 0% Arsenal 4:0 Man Utd
  • 0% Arsenal 4:1 Man Utd
  • 0% Arsenal 2:5 Man Utd
Compiled from 322 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Arsenal
  2. Man Utd
Possession
49% 51%
Shots
10 10
Shots on Target
4 4
Corners
1 4
Fouls
11 15

Referee

Chris Kavanagh