[Lucky McLuckerson]

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

Date - Monday, September 30 2019
Kickoff Time - 2000 Hrs BST
Venue - Old Trafford, Manchester

League standings and form guide

8. Manchester United: DLDWL

4. Arsenal: WLDDW


Previous Meetings

Arsenal 2—0 Manchester United

Manchester United 2—2 Arsenal

Manchester United 2—1 Arsenal

Arsenal 1—3 Manchester United

Arsenal 2—0 Manchester United


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 83
Arsenal wins: 70
Draws: 47


Pre-Match Pressers

Ole Gunnar Solskjær


Unai Emery



Team News

Manchester United

Eric Bailly, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Diogo Dalot and Angel Gomes ruled out. Luke Shaw doubtful.

Arsenal

Emile Smith Rowe, Alexandre Lacazette and Héctor Bellerín ruled out. Konstantinos Mavropanos 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

Kevin Friend.​

 

[DRM]

1-1 or an Arsenal win

 

[freeurmind]

Can't see us winning.

 

[JinnerJamie]

I think we'll score, I doubt we'll win.

 

[Samid]

433 please

DDG
AWB - Maguire - Lindelof - Young
McTominay
Fred - Pogba
James - Greenwood - Martial

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Will probably be 4231 with JLings for Fred though.

 

[Raw]

Wonder if our attack can actually take advantage of their defence?

Yeah probably not. 1-1 or 2-1 to Arsenal.

 

[prateik]

------De Gea
AWB-Linde-Maguire-Young
----McT---Fred
-------Pog
Ling---------James
----Rashford



?

Thank God it's Arsenal.. we'll win.

 

[ThierryHenry]

 

[freeurmind]

No way we win. I'd take a point right now. Aubemayang will probably get at least 2.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

draw is the very best we can from this , might be at home , but my gut says we are i for a bad defeat

 

[charlenefan]

Team should be...

--------------De Gea--------------
AWB--Lindelof--Maguire--Young
---McTominay-----Pogba---
Lingard-------Mata-------James
------------Greenwood------------

Subs: Romero, Tuanzebe, Matic, Fred, Andreas, Gomes, Chong

No words

 

[PoTMS]

1-2. Aubameyang double.

 

[ayushreddevil9]

People still believe Fred will start?

 

[Scholesgoals]

We should just pick some random league 1 players, they tend to be on par with PL players now

 

[kouroux]

Only way to get a good result is hoping for a massive feckup from either Luiz or Sokratis.

 

[RedSky]

I know everyone is pissed off right now, but this could be the right fixture for us. Teams that come out and play against us we seem to do ok against. It's the teams that sit deep that we struggle to do anything against and we all know Arsenal will come and want to play football.

We do need our players stepping up a gear or two though.

 

[predator]

Could be a pasting I'm afraid. 4-0 or something similar, Arsenal to win. We're in terrible form. It just feels inevitable atm.

 

[bosnian_red]

I think we'll play well and win tbh. Game suits us. They are shite defensively and will be prone to the counter which we can somewhat do as our only way of attacking.

Martial
James Pogba Lingard
Fred McTominay
Young Maguire Lindelof Wan Bissaka
De Gea
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Sub Greenwood on for Fred if we can't score.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

De Gea
Wan-Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Young
Matic McTominay
Pogba
Greenwood Martial James​

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

Oh not looking forward to this.

 

[Irrational.]

This will be painful.

 

[Schmeichel's Cartwheel]

Watch us win or draw this then lose at Newcastle.

de Gea
Wan Bissaka Lindelof Maguire Shaw/Young
Fred
Mctominay Pogba
Rashford Martial James
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If Rashford goes full Rashford bring on Greenwood before 60 minutes.

Could be a pasting I'm afraid. 4-0 or something similar, Arsenal to win. We're in terrible form. It just feels inevitable atm.

Arsenal don't have the bottle to beat us 4-0 at Old Trafford. If it was City or Liverpool maybe, Arsenal are soft though. Even if we are as shite as tonight, Arsenal will make it hard for themselves.

 

[Paxi]

Well get slapped and nothing will happen. Well go to Holland, get beaten and people will make some ridiculous excuses for Ole. We’ll probably get absolutely destroyed by Liverpool at Old Trafford before he’s about to get the boot, only for Gary Neville to have a meltdown on Sky how we should just suck it up and take it cause cycles or something something.

 

[reddevil702]

This type of game actually plays to our strengths. We are clueless with the ball and Arsenal will be glad to have it. We will be able to sit back and counter.

 

[Alemar]

DDG
AWB - Maguire - Lindelof - Williams
McTominay
Fred - Pogba
Greenwood - Martial - James

If Martial still unfit, then Mason up top and a big question mark on the right

 

[FootballHQ]

DDG
AWB - Maguire - Lindelof - Williams
McTominay
Fred - Pogba
Greenwood - Martial - James

If Martial still unfit, then Mason up top and a big question mark on the right

Will surely be Pereira.

If Martial was fit he'd surely have got minutes like Pogba tonight so maybe bench at best for him.

 

[Denis79]

Very difficult game, hopefully home advantage will make a difference.

 

[izec]

Can get ugly. Lets hope the spineless bunch raise their game

 

[Irwin99]

They haven't won at OT in the league since 2006 and they're just as naive defensively as they were under Wenger. I think we will sit deep and will beat them on the counter.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

Ole needs to change his formation / system. Because currently this 4231 and the way how we play are just not working. If something is not working then don't be stubborn using the same again & again. Pereira, Lingard & Mata have been out of form, let's not playing them.

 

[Yagami]

Meh, it's arsenal. As shit as we are I can see a victory for us.

 

[ManchesterYoda]

McTominay central in front of back 4 at base of a diamond. Fred one side, Pereira the other. Pogba as no.10 at top of diamond free to get forward at every opportunity. James attacking from the left. Greenwood attacking from the right.

 

[snowkarl]

McTominay central in front of back 4 at base of a diamond. Fred one side, Pereira the other. Pogba as no.10 at top of diamond free to get forward at every opportunity. James attacking from the left. Greenwood attacking from the right.

Playing Fred, who concedes a minimum of 2 freebie 1v1 chances for the opposition with stray passes every game against Aubameyang and Pepe, would be suicide.

McT and Matic will justifiably play, because their lack of movement and creativity is much safer than headless chicken Fred who got dominated by a bottom table l1 side...

 

[Castia]

3-1 Arsenal.

They’ll win comfortably. We’re getting worse by the week, no gameplan, no tactic, players for whatever reason look dead on their feet.

 

[passing-wind]

Most likely a loss, the only aspect of a win is Arsenal not being compact at the back. Emery is simply just a better manager so expecting Ole to fire up a blank as per usual.

 

[bond19821982]

Absorb the pressure and hit them on counter. God knows who all are fit.

Rashford is back? Martial ?

 

[haram]

McTominay central in front of back 4 at base of a diamond. Fred one side, Pereira the other. Pogba as no.10 at top of diamond free to get forward at every opportunity. James attacking from the left. Greenwood attacking from the right.

This is how we lose the game.

 

[Blatzo]

I said we weren't beating West Ham... We'll beat these cnuts.

 

[always_hoping]

I attended this game last season (one of Jose's last as manager of United) A 2-2 draw Arsenal's goals was OG from Rojo and howler from DeGea things haven't improved much have they?

No need to talk up Arsenal as they remain flaky so maybe another score draw but seeing that United are only averaging 1 goal a game nowadays 1-1 looks most likely.

 

[Denis79]

I said we weren't beating West Ham... We'll beat these cnuts.

We better! We are in direct competition with them for that 8th spot.