Manchester United, with Cristiano substitute, beat the leader (3-1). Ten Hag’s team is reversing the situation of the first games and climbing positions in the table
Subdued during many moments of the game by Arsenal, Manchester United offered a demonstration of efficiency, counterattack and talent, personified in the passes of Bruno Fernandes, without whom nothing would have been possible, and in the two goals of Marcus Rashford with which overflowed and discussed the leader of the classification (3-1)whom he stopped after five wins in a row and who frustrated a historic plenary session, in the premiere with a goal from Antony, the signing of 100 million euros from the Old Trafford club.
Erik Ten Hag’s team grows, grows and grows in recent days. Alarmed at first, his response is unanswerable. His four consecutive wins and consolidation against Arsenal They propose him just three points from the top of the ‘Premier League’, capable of resisting, responding and hitting the opposite goal, especially when he suffered his most delicate moments in the match.
???? He’s one of our own ❤️#MUFC || #MUNARS pic.twitter.com/nS28q3p0S9
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) September 4, 2022
Because Arsenal manage a variety of imposing records this season in attack. Not so much in his defense. United only dominated him in the game at the beginning. Nothing more. He rushed it with a shot from Christian Eriksen or the shot from Jadon Sancho that Ramsdale cleared, finally available in goal, between the feeling that everything that happened led to a United goal, but he subdued it later, just when it least seemed to do so.
United’s vindication
VAR also had an influence. In the 10th minute. With players like Gabriel Jesus, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka or Gabriel Martinelli, every counterattack launched by Arsenal is a invitation to goal. It was the recovery of his Norwegian midfielder -later understood by the referee as a foul on Eriksen, which invalidated the goal-, Saka’s wonderful pass and Martinelli’s unchecking, running and definition, which surpassed Dalot and beat De Gea. The monitor revealed the slight infraction, which is part of the controversy.
A break for United. Also a warning. Arsenal are an uncontrollable team this season, who later locked up Ten Hag’s team for a while. But United also have plenty of resources. It has more and more the appearance of a block and is endowed with unquestionable individualities, attracted by millionaire amounts that today, it seems, can only be paid in the ‘Premier League’, such as Antony, who uneven the match after half an hour with a pass from Marcus Rashford.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Substitute
Signed and incorporated on Thursday, from Ajax, directly to eleven, as the choice of Ten Hag (above Cristiano Ronaldo) to recompose his attack with the loss of Martial, the Brazilian winger it arose when Arsenal pressed the most, the more he dominated possession and the more he threatened the survival of David de Gea’s zero goal, who flew fantastically against Gabriel Martinelli. Antony then vindicated his qualities against the weight of 100 million euros, which seem excessive… Or not. The future and the results will tell.
In the 57th minute he was replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo. Even when the market is already closed, the substitution of the Portuguese star is not surprising. It’s not so conspicuous anymore. For the fourth consecutive day, He was a reserve at United, with the addition that Martial was not available and the duel of significance this Sunday. Since the hit that toured the world against Brenrford (4-0), the only game as a starter so far this season for ‘CR7’, he has not started from the starting lineups again. And United win it all. To Liverpool, to Southampton, to Leicester… And to Arsenal.
An insufficient response Arsenal
The reaction of the London team was not enough, visible, conclusive, at the level expected at the level they have shown so far, in unthinkable records in possession at the beginning of the second half (the first ten minutes, the visiting block dominated the ball 85 percent by the local 15), overwhelming at times in the pressure, in the transition and in the offensive and deserving of the tie from the intermission.
Keep going out there, @gabimartinelli ???? pic.twitter.com/0DYejgYmEP
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) September 4, 2022
He achieved 1-1. For a matter of definition, because Odegaard blundered once and Saka crossed his shot too much inside the area or whose center, on another occasion, crashed against the crossbar, the equalizer was delayed until minute 59: victim of the pressure in the opposite field of the visitors, Varane lost a ball in his midfield that reactivated Arsenal’s offensive machinely the perfect pass from Odegaard to Gabriel Jesús, which did not quite reach, but which promoted the rebound that Saka transformed into 1-1 (m. 59).
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But in the swing of the whole game, in an unpredictable duel, everything changed suddenly, as it had in the 1-0. When Arsenal was best perceived, United struck. On the counterattack, with Eriksen’s first touch, with Bruno Fernandes’ extraordinary vision and execution of the final pass, with the outside of his right foot, to send Marcus Rashford on the run, the local team resumed its advantage before the disbelief of Mikel Arteta.
The 2-1 already completely discovered Arsenal, exposed in their offense to the imagination of Bruno Fernandes, who destroyed the ‘gunner’ team as soon as he had space forward. His next pass set up another counter to Christian Eriksen. In the two against one of the Danish international and Rashford against Ramsdale, he did the easiest thing: he gave it to the striker for his ‘double’ (he was later injured, as was Lisandro Martínez), the reaffirmation of United and the first defeat of a leaderSuddenly in question.
Manchester United 3- Arsenal 1
Manchester United: Of Gea; Dalot, Varane, Lysander (Maguire, m. 79), Malachi; McTominay, Eriksen; Antony (Cristiano Ronaldo, d. 57), Bruno Fernandes, Sancho (Fred, d. 67); Rashford (Casemiro, m. 79).
Arsenal: Ramsdale; White (Tomiyasu, 80), Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko (Nketiah, 73); Sambi (Fabio Scallop, 73), Genealogy; Saka, Odegaard (Smith Rowe, m. 72), Martinelli; Gabriel Jesus.
Goals: 1-0, m. 35. 1-1, m. 59: Saka. 2-1, m. 66: Rashford. 3-1, m. 74: Rashford.
Referee: Paul Tierney. He admonished the locals McTominay (m. 70) and Maguire (m. 82) and the visitor Saliba (m. 24).
incidents: match corresponding to the sixth day of the Premier League played at Old Trafford before some 80,000 spectators.