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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Same song
“ Elneny MOTM for me”
Same here
How dogshit is AMN??????
Go to the corner flag jesus
Thanks Cavani!
Respect Mo. You doubters know who you are.
Gabs and elneny been phenomenal today
Smells good, ladies
AMN too weak
AMN is so pathetic
What was that
AMN such a waste of space. Just let himself lose the ball.
Better performance in a defensive shirt than Gabriel? Answers on a postcard, man imagine having another dominant cb…
History re-made!!!
AMN is awful.
Holy Shities
The generational coach pulls it off
FKIN YESSSSS FK FK YEEEEESSSS YEESS YESSSSSS
Yeeeeeeeessss fuck manure!
Great Win
Well. The team reset history in successive PL games!
But time to rejoice!
MOTM – Gabriel
Get in Arsenal well deserved
Wow what a great result, overjoyed
immense performances from Elneny, Partey and Gabriel. Gab can reach VVD level.
OMG! yesssss
“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.
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
Elneny, Partey, Gabriel, Bellerin. Fantastic performances!
Yes!!! Get in Red Army
Elneny and Gabriel best players by a huge difference.
That was nice
Gabriel and Partey were fantastic
Been saying for a while that AMN ain’t good enough for us. We should of sold him when Wolves came calling for him.
Absolutely chuffed to bits. Exactly what I would have taken before the game.
Top 6 away record ended, abysmal Old Trafford run over!
Keep this 11 for the next game
GREAT WIN!! Thank you Arteta! Great tactics and team performance 😁
YES
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 🙂
Up the Arse !
Brilliant result and a very welcome boost for our confidence
ps : I love you Mike Dean
Elite Power Rankings. How is Bam going to rub one out to OGS tonight?
Told you Arsenal will win
Partey, Gabriel and Elneny amazing today.
ive waited 20 years to see his game. specifically cuz mike dean fucking reffed it
Decent win.
‘Arsenal big names need a BIG performance at Old Trafford’ – by your command Pedro. Call out for Mo – exceptional.
Gabby and Mo were awsome, tommy wasnt bad either!
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.
Get in boys.
Amazing result, first PL win there in 14 years, mental.
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.
Yes…… I so needed that… wow.
Somebody please tweet Bam to fuck off! for me..
Nice to know Arteta reads Grove.
Only Laca was the worst mistake
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.
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?
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.
Very good win, that
Partey
Gabriel
Elneny
All Immense
It will be a quiet night on Le Grove
So many disappointed people .
Arteta out !
Needed that, impressed we saw it out, more impressed Deano gave the pen which was deserved.
Thoughts with Bam.
But MOM goes to Mike fucking Dean ..Lol!!
Really happy with that win!!! Thomas and Gabriel have been absolutely outstanding!!!
A tight game
With two sides of similar quality
Decided by small margins
Who could have predicted such a thing?……..
Laca has a pass today. He did press and defend ok.
Incoming gloat by Pedro coming up.
Great win by the team
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!!!!
WengerEagle?
What world am I on?
Waited for that for ages! Really pleased with that
Massive win for Arteta, this changes everything.
Suddenly life is good again!
Spare a thought for Banford/Dar.iano right now gents, must be devastated.
Gabriel MOTM for me, an absolute monster.
Mike Dean will no doubt be refereeing a Championship game next due to his performance today!
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.
Enemy excellent.
Dean!
Sacked in the morning! You’re getting sacked in the morning! Sacked in the morning! You’re getting sacked in the morning!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elneny + Partey was brilliant. We don’t need Xhaka!!
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.?
yeah Gabriel motm easy
Elneny
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 »
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.
Dean could have easily sent Gabriel off towards the end and we couldn’t exactly complain
Please dont start the “its going to be quiet because arsenal won shit”
think everyone here wants arsenal to win all games
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.”
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.
Elneny had the hardest job in midfield him and Partey were excellent. Even near the End Elneny pressed.
Bamford’s week is ruined. Not only did his team lose but Ole got beaten by that bum Arteta.
Personally dual MOTM.
Gabriel and Partey
Both kept it at full throttle to the end.
Really impressed with Elneny today. Forward passes -Partey influence already rubbing off
indeed marko, that, don’t happen without partey.
Gabriel on yellow though? it’s tough.
Marko
Thomas is begining to look great for us As i suspected. He is actually making players around him better too.
What a fucking game lads!
Mo was superb, Gabriel immense, still have the best defence in the league.
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
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.
we play so much better without Xhaka
GET THE FUCK IN
Yeehah! Great performance. Thomas, Gabriel and Mo were heroes today.
Gabs was immense. If we can find him a partner next to him at CB. Life would be so good.
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.
“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 »
Gabriel seems to already be levels above anything else in the league, a beast.
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.
The table looks much better now, only 1 pt away from the leaders.
Rich, big win for you there sir… you’ve been solid on Arsenal this week.
FIne margins and we won.
We were so much better in attack today. Dundalk did mean something…