Arsenal big names need a BIG performance at Old Trafford

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It’s the BIG ONE.

Arsenal vs Manchester United. Away from home. The reignition of a classic? Maybe.

Both sides head into this game out of form in the league. United haven’t won at home for three games. We haven’t won away against a top 6 side in 359 years. We are both not where we should be in the league.

It is a must win for both sides. Both sets of fans will be immensely frustrated with a sharing of the spoils

Arteta needs to win because though we’ve been tough to beat, we’re not racking up points in these big games.

Ole G needs to win because he’s spent a lot of cash for not a lot of output so far.

Arsenal fans are looking for a performance. I don’t buy that we have to have 62 shots on target to make a performance count, I think we just need to do better than we have been. Averaging 8 attempts at goal a game isn’t good for the soul. We need a bit more today. I don’t want to be celebrating a glorious loss again. We need to move beyond being competitive at this stage.

I think Arteta plays a fine margins game, but we’re not quite a fine margins team yet. To get a performance, he needs more than 6 of his players at the top of their game. I’m not sure we’ve seen a game like that so far this season.

These are the moments that are built for big players. Backs against the wall, low expectations, a grim record to surmount.

I want to see a ferocious Arsenal today. I want to see players like Willian show why we invested so much money in them. I want to see what Thomas Partey is all about. I want to see captain Auba impose himself.

Aside from that, I want to see some purpose and intent behind our attack. I think Arteta has cut out a lot of the nonsense we’ve seen from this squad in big games, but that’s led us to become a very low-risk side. When the objective is not to make a mistake, you improve defensively, but you also reduce the taste for risk. I want to see big players gamble. I want to see us take chances. If things don’t work out, I don’t want to see players hide… we need to keep plugging away until something good happens.

This is a huge game. It feels special. I am very excited.

You should feel the same. Let’s enjoy the game and see where we land. Catch you in the comments!

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Dissenter

Same song
“ Elneny MOTM for me”

Same here

raptora

How dogshit is AMN??????

Useroz

Go to the corner flag jesus

Useroz

Thanks Cavani!

Kaz

Respect Mo. You doubters know who you are.

karim

Gabs and elneny been phenomenal today
Smells good, ladies

Marco

AMN too weak

Dissenter

AMN is so pathetic
What was that

raptora

AMN such a waste of space. Just let himself lose the ball.

DUIFG

Better performance in a defensive shirt than Gabriel? Answers on a postcard, man imagine having another dominant cb…

Useroz

History re-made!!!

Jim+Lahey

AMN is awful.

underrated Coq

Holy Shities

The generational coach pulls it off

raptora

FKIN YESSSSS FK FK YEEEEESSSS YEESS YESSSSSS

G8

Yeeeeeeeessss fuck manure!

Marco

Great Win

Useroz

Well. The team reset history in successive PL games!

But time to rejoice!

Radio Raheem

MOTM – Gabriel

Mr Serge

Get in Arsenal well deserved

TR7

Wow what a great result, overjoyed

immense performances from Elneny, Partey and Gabriel. Gab can reach VVD level.

Guns of SF

OMG! yesssss

Paulinho

“How dogshit is AMN”

A very large section of fans would have him as our right back if they had their way in the summer. Unreal banter.

Gabriel & Partey. Vertebrae verve.

Dissenter

Good bounce back after last week. That’s all it is.
Let’s not start reacting like a small club.

All day long fucking love this result , fuck my family all of them Manc scum

raptora

Elneny, Partey, Gabriel, Bellerin. Fantastic performances!

Leftside

Yes!!! Get in Red Army

Valentin

Elneny and Gabriel best players by a huge difference.

prvhc

That was nice
Gabriel and Partey were fantastic

GS88

Been saying for a while that AMN ain’t good enough for us. We should of sold him when Wolves came calling for him.

Chris

Absolutely chuffed to bits. Exactly what I would have taken before the game.

Top 6 away record ended, abysmal Old Trafford run over!

Marco

Keep this 11 for the next game

Samir

GREAT WIN!! Thank you Arteta! Great tactics and team performance 😁
YES

Goonah

Elneny got a full year playtime and experience so no surprise if he improved. Trust from the manager and some real confidence elevates that even further.

So he is slighly better than bang average now 🙂

karim

Up the Arse !
Brilliant result and a very welcome boost for our confidence

ps : I love you Mike Dean

Jamie

Elite Power Rankings. How is Bam going to rub one out to OGS tonight?

Buzzy

Told you Arsenal will win

Leftside

Partey, Gabriel and Elneny amazing today.

zacharse

ive waited 20 years to see his game. specifically cuz mike dean fucking reffed it

Leftfootcurler

Decent win.

Calisteve

‘Arsenal big names need a BIG performance at Old Trafford’ – by your command Pedro. Call out for Mo – exceptional.

G8

Gabby and Mo were awsome, tommy wasnt bad either!

Nelson

You have to give credit to Arteta. The first period he place Partey on Pogba and Mo on Fernandes. They destroyed completely Manure’s supply line. He out coached OGS.

WengerEagle

Get in boys.

Amazing result, first PL win there in 14 years, mental.

Chris

Dissenter

Try and enjoy it for what it is, nobody is discounting that there is still plenty of work to do, but if you can’t be overjoyed with a first win at Old Trafford in 14 years than it is a bit sad.

MidwestGun

Yes…… I so needed that… wow.

Somebody please tweet Bam to fuck off! for me..

S Asoa

Nice to know Arteta reads Grove.
Only Laca was the worst mistake

raptora

We finally broke the no win away in 29 games Vs a top 6 team. We finally won Vs Manure since 2006. And we saw several tone setting performances.

Useroz

We are in Partey mode.

Full £45’m worth of Partey. Marvellous.

A team victory but this is what £45m gives you!

Wot a shame £72’m hasn’t done proportionally more… may be because we pay in 4 or 5 instalments?

GunnerDNA

Probably Artera most complete game as Arsenal manager, almost gave it away in the end with his Pulis like moment but hang on in the end.

Trask

Very good win, that

Partey
Gabriel
Elneny

All Immense

Bertie Mee

It will be a quiet night on Le Grove
So many disappointed people .
Arteta out !

salparadisenyc

Needed that, impressed we saw it out, more impressed Deano gave the pen which was deserved.
Thoughts with Bam.

G8

But MOM goes to Mike fucking Dean ..Lol!!

TheLegendaryDB10

Really happy with that win!!! Thomas and Gabriel have been absolutely outstanding!!!

Rich

A tight game

With two sides of similar quality

Decided by small margins

Who could have predicted such a thing?……..

Useroz

Laca has a pass today. He did press and defend ok.

azed

Incoming gloat by Pedro coming up.

Great win by the team

Guns of SF

Gonna have a nice glass of Pinot to celebrate this.!

I told my son to put on a Arsenal shirt in the second half.

He went and put on his Gold Sega dreamcast shirt for the second half…. I am sure this was the good luck charm we needed!

Great win, great shirt, great day today!!!!

Rich

WengerEagle?

What world am I on?

Leftside

Waited for that for ages! Really pleased with that

Danny

Massive win for Arteta, this changes everything.
Suddenly life is good again!

WengerEagle

Spare a thought for Banford/Dar.iano right now gents, must be devastated.

Jim+Lahey

Gabriel MOTM for me, an absolute monster.

Useroz

Mike Dean will no doubt be refereeing a Championship game next due to his performance today!

curse

massive win!! omfg! at last.

elneny is proving me wrong still, hands up. knew he had an engine but he’s becoming quite the player. props.

Tenerife+Gooner

Enemy excellent.

Goonah

Dean!

Sacked in the morning! You’re getting sacked in the morning! Sacked in the morning! You’re getting sacked in the morning!

Paulinho

Did we have a shot on target in the second half? Can’t remember.

Thank fuck we have Bellers who realises the aim of the game is to score a goal every now and then.

SUGA3

Credit where it is due. Apparently, we can attack as well. n

Got lucky with Elneny/Leno situation and we still do not look that convincing, but I can’t knock a win at OT.

andy1886

Terrific win and just as important we deserved it. Better side over pretty much most of the 90 minutes. Elneny MoTM for me.Partey and Gabriel also good (if a little lucky) as were both our full backs.

Nelson

OGS didn’t do his homework. Our weakest play is Leno playing out from the back. They didn’t put any pressure on Leno. All in all, Arteta’s 3 4 3 formation is still very effective against teams that doesn’t play low block.

Mb

Elneny + Partey was brilliant. We don’t need Xhaka!!

James wood.

Great performance by the whole team.
Elneny immense.
Laca’s best game.
Like to see Tierney improve his last touch when going forward.
But Hey best performance this season.?

curse

yeah Gabriel motm easy

Tenerife+Gooner

Elneny

Marko

Deserved. Really good performance that and dare I say more of what Arteta is setting us up for. Over 2/3 of us were well drilled and while the offence is still needing improvements it was better today than anything recently. Big credit for getting two 30+ year olds and a 29 year old high pressing like peak Barcelona. Gabriel was awesome today and Elneny was excellent but for me we don’t win that game if we don’t have Thomas Partey. Lad just exudes confidence and calmness and personality and there’s thoughtfulness and quality behind his passing like we don’t get… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

Really hilarious that Manure have still not won at OT. And fuck that Manure cunt Bam who I am sure was gleefully expecting a Manure win.

Useroz

Dean could have easily sent Gabriel off towards the end and we couldn’t exactly complain

G8

Please dont start the “its going to be quiet because arsenal won shit”
think everyone here wants arsenal to win all games

raptora

Legend says Bam.ford is crying in a corner calmed down by his alter ego Darian.o: “We’ll get them next time. We will have our revenge.”

Habesha Gooner

Well l, Arteta is showing his mettle agian in a big game. A wonderful performance and a Win. Shout out Mo elneny who is turning up every game now. He was my man of the match.

Now we need to have enough to penetrate smaller teams. If arteta shows that, he is definitley going to take us forward. A massive win.

COYG.

Samesong

Elneny had the hardest job in midfield him and Partey were excellent. Even near the End Elneny pressed.

Marko

Bamford’s week is ruined. Not only did his team lose but Ole got beaten by that bum Arteta.

Useroz

Personally dual MOTM.

Gabriel and Partey

Both kept it at full throttle to the end.

Northbanker

Really impressed with Elneny today. Forward passes -Partey influence already rubbing off

curse

indeed marko, that, don’t happen without partey.

Gabriel on yellow though? it’s tough.

Habesha Gooner

Marko
Thomas is begining to look great for us As i suspected. He is actually making players around him better too.

Northbanker

We need to reflect in fact that as we try to climb the league we have already done our away games at Liverpool Man City and ManU

RockyRoe

Great result. We were great in the 1st half. Mikel made the right decision to play partey and elneny and bench xhaka. We could have won by more. Partey was great as expected but I thought elneny was very very good as well. Not bad from a guy most of us had written off completely.

SUGA3

we play so much better without Xhaka

Venga, Dani

GET THE FUCK IN

GunnerWomble

Yeehah! Great performance. Thomas, Gabriel and Mo were heroes today.

MidwestGun

Gabs was immense. If we can find him a partner next to him at CB. Life would be so good.

Rich

James Wood

Best performance.

But we were good in the first half against Leicester, it was another game of small margins

At Anfield we were second best, but had the chances to get something

And we were competitive at City.

We’ve not been as bad, and things haven’t been as grim as some have made out

We’re competitive and we’ve got some experienced players.

We’ll do ok this season, Arteta will have slightly overachieved if he get top4, but we’ll be in the mix after 38 games.

Receding Hairline

“Incoming gloat by Pedro coming up.” Shouldn’t that be after we qualify for the UCL? Like Dissenter said and was attacked let’s not start acting like a small club. Palace won 1-3 here this season, they haven’t won a league game at home this season. Good win, that’s all it is and hopefully spells the end of Xhaka as a guaranteed starter. “Did we have a shot on target in the second half? Can’t remember.” No we did not, 2 on target all game including the penalty, that particular problem will still need solving going forward. At least Auba has… Read more »

Jim+Lahey

Gabriel seems to already be levels above anything else in the league, a beast.

Kaz

Much needed performance!

Massive result.

Keep this midfield duo Arteta!!

Start easing up Auba and Laca on their running back duties and let them interchange during the game.

They need to build fluidity between them again.

karim

The table looks much better now, only 1 pt away from the leaders.

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