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by Tony Bugby
MAN UNITED 2, ARSENAL 1
MAROUANE Fellaini’s injury-time winner guaranteed Champions League football for Manchester United, but ended Arsenal’s slender hopes of a top-four finish.
It was also Arsene Wenger’s last visit to Old Trafford as Gunners’ manager and his 60th game against the Reds was one of the most lukewarm.
by Paul Chan
ARSENAL 0, MANCHESTER CITY 3
A first half blizzard of goals by Bernardo Silva, David Silva, and Leroy Sane crushed Arsenal’s attempt to go toe to toe with Manchester City following their Carabao Cup heartbreak with three goals in 18 first half minutes of an entirely one sided match in which the Gunners couldn’t even score from the penalty spot in the second half after City took their foot off the gas.
By the 33rd minute of this contest clinical City had scored with each of their last six shots on target against Arsenal – three in the Carabao Cup final and another treble here as the Gunners conceded three goals in the first half of a Premier League game for the first time and wasted a succession of chances to score against their visitors.
How different it might have been if Arsene Wenger’s high risk strategy – to match City man for man and attack them – had not spectacularly backfired at a freezing underpopulated Emirates Stadium as City extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to 16 points.
by Tony Bugby
ARSENAL 0, MAN CITY 3 Far bigger prizes may lay ahead, but Manchester City’s Carabao Cup final win against Arsenal was hugely significant for Pep Guardiola. It was the City manager’s first piece of silverware in English football as his side comprehensively beat the Gunners at the end of a crazy week. The triumph at […]
by Paul Chan
Alexis Sanchez has finally been unveiled as a Manchester United player after an intensely followed transfer saga that ended with a swap deal which took Henrikh Mkhitaryan to the Emirates.
Sanchez has signed a four and a half year deal with the Reds until the summer of 2022 while Mkhitaryan, who scored 13 times in 63 appearances for United.
Sanchez will take on the iconic number 7 shirt at United and he could make his Reds debut at Yeovil in the FA Cup this Friday.
by Paul Chan
ARSENAL 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 3
Manchester United kept the heat up on their title rivals Manchester City by winning handsomely at Arsenal to reduce Pep Guardiola’s side to a five point lead ahead of City’s home game against West Ham on Sunday.
It was a stylish win which should silence some of the criticism of Jose Mourinho’s ‘defensive’ tactics in the way that his United side applied three killer blows from just 4 shots on targets while David De Gea kept out a barrage of Arsenal attacks.
Both sides were unchanged from their last matches but this match didn’t seem to suffer from any perceived tiredness.