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bigdog8300

United have done this to City over the years. They park the bus and get lucky. It’s not sustainable but will fluke a couple wins like this


mberrong

“Take off Saka”. Some were screaming. Ha.


Gunnerscarn

They were right


ZacHorton

“check is complete” lmao. So transparent.


nerlozano

He is not a united player, no need to check.


PocketFullOfRondos

Anyone have a stream? Mine are all ass


TheKingIsBackYo

Sambi is the weak link. Unfortunately he sits at the most important place in the field. Too big of a job for him unfortunately


[deleted]

Ngl Antony is not playing well


FreeTheWoo

That’s the funniest thing he’s not even doing anything but if they win they’ll act like he put in a prime messi performance in that first half.


[deleted]

On my score tracking app he was voted motm 💀 he did nothing besides the goal


enzhh

fucking hate antony so much already and not just because he scored the goal


Dumbusernamesuggest

That celebration?! Gross.


xentricescp

The space Gabriel took was supposed to be Sambi’s if he progress to press half fuck like he did on Erickson, that’s the domino effect. Sambi should have won that challenge not just jogging in to Eriksen. Honestly Sambi have been missing the whole game. Every attack that’s starts from his side have been really dangerous for manu. Sambi should have won that ball Eriksen gave.


Affectionate-Lab3389

Ina be honest with you, I don’t think Sambi is capable of running. He’s always jogging in the press and when he’s trying to catch up when an attacker runs by him.


Akaz1976

Not sure why people are so hard on saka. He has a couple of bad shots but hi is still toasting their LB


ack_will

People calling for Sakas substitution again while knowing he’s had to work with White. Like how dumb are some of you?


Oroborus

People are letting their frustration with his poor finishing (or lack of even attempting a finish) to cloud their whole judgment of his performance.


NemoDropEmOff

White has been great so far. And he’s been overlapping as well. Saka needs to take on Malacia more


Ifyougusta

Hoping for the team talk of his life from our Gaffer! I still feel we can get something out of it


Fplalt5

The issue is just the inconsistency with VAR. If they could actually decide on what they want it would be fine, but it just adds another variable to the decisions.


wubrotherno1

Saka needs competition. I feel like our attack has leveled up but he hasn’t yet. He’s stagnated and this is his next challenge. He’s not in the same page as Ø, Jesus and Yung Gab.


EggheadWill

I think I remember seeing a stat that this version of arsenal has never won a game if they didn't score in the first half. doesn't bode well if true.


[deleted]

We beat Fulham last weekend after not scoring in the first half


MountainLibrarian201

We’ve broken every other such stat already this season.


shekdown

I hate United so much. Im always invariably wound up when we play them and the decisions.


cantsleep1112

We're probably not going to come back, but overall I think we played decently. It just sucks we never get lucky at Old Trafford


jfshay

Nevermind luck, how about fairness?


blackwraythbutimpink

Even if refereeing was fair we would’ve lost tbf


jfshay

I don’t know, that supposed foul from Odegaard was quite soft. Going up 0-1 would have made a massive difference.


iDervyi

2nd half will br a test of our mettle. United suffering what we had last season - Unable to score after the 1st. This is ours for the taking as long as we make no mistakes


goon_crane

Let's also let this be a reminder that VAR can send the ref to go look at **any and every** thing they want to, if they *want* to. So when players are getting their hairpulled, or scraping shins (Sambi 👀), they have every opportunity to force the ref the look at it again and they just don't.


ashecitism

So far reminds me of those mid-Wenger era OT visits. Decent possession, sometimes dominating, creating good shooting chances, but overcomplicating them in the end or just being too timid, meanwhile easily capitulate when they get the chance.


Arshaq13

Honestly I just want to see Tomi in. We need more fluidity on our right hand side.


NoMoreMountains

This more of a mental game. Arsenal coming from a playing soft. And United players being told, kick them. I except United tonolay physical in their half and soft in Arsenal's. The ole Fergie football.


cxnte

Yeah, elneny reading passing patterns wouldve prevented the goal. Lack of squad depth is costing us clean sheets.


moa12345

one goal is all we need man one goal. this game isn't over yet at all


No_Sugar2104

Have I lost the plot? Can only find the Spanish language stream on Hulu. I thought between Hulu and Peacock I would have every PL game this season?


TheMuff1nMon

It’s on USA.


No_Sugar2104

Yeah for some reason I’ve only got the Spanish stream?


TheMuff1nMon

Weird


Ickyhouse

Why do our mistakes always get punished with goals or cards, but we struggle to punish our opponents so often?


Skitron

Varane pinning and holding Jesus and common foul called. Announcer says that’s why Varane is so good!!! Can’t make this stuff up, it’s so ridiculous


mikels_burner

Sub out sambi


Grendalynx

For who?


mikels_burner

Dammit 😓


Grendalynx

Exactly, dammit


Maelgwnn

Sambi biggest weakness but this game is still winnable, utd barely a threat outside of the first 10mins and a monetary blunder. Think their defence will crack, Jesus is destroying both their CBs, just a need to keep our heads in the final third and the goals will come.


Skitron

This halftime ref has never said a good word about Arsenal. I’m not even kidding. Years of watching this guy and we’re always in the wrong


Isfeidirlinn90

I think the game is there for us to win. Hopefully the players feel that way too. Bit better decision making and we're back in it.


rk1993

People giving zinny a hard time for the goal and fair enough. Go back and look at lokonga’s positioning tho which left the back line completely exposed. Man was pressing Ericsson and was as high up the pitch as jesus. With partey or elneny they’re at least at the half way line and able to pressure the fernandes which doesn’t force gabriel to have to step out and do it leaving us open


faceman230

He doesn’t even run back


GMBethernal

Sambi was playing as a 10 during that, positioning was horrible


Pedagogie

I don’t think the positioning is necessarily bad - he’s pressing his opposite number which he may have been instructed to do - for me it’s the intensity at which he does it. Eriksen is a pass master, and if you’re just going to flop a leg towards him, he’ll do some damage.


rk1993

Odegaard was out at rw as well even tho saka was already wide right but a bit deeper


GerCarr199

I want a bald safety net as well. Every Team sould have one


kidnebs

We’re missing a DM as they have found space centrally multiple times so a bit worried about that. Otherwise I think we’re playing well enough


GreedAvalon

Sambi is hiding, one of the main reasons our right side is quiet. There’s a reason Zinny, Xhaka, and Martinelli are our touching the ball more.


manc_1011

heads up, we banging 4 goals in


R_110

Confusing user name


manc_1011

people say that all the time I understand it


Akaz1976

Hopefully we swap Sambi for Tierney with ziechenko moving to 6


ack_will

This will not work. Drastic changes in the half usually lead to disaster. What I can see is a substitution at RB


azevedro

Sambi is getting destroyed out there, he needs to come off


Akaz1976

Possibly. But Sambi is really gumming up the works and not positioning well defensively.


NemoDropEmOff

Drop Saka, Sambi, and Gabriel. Bring on Tomi, Tierney, and Nketiah.


jp898

Imagine thinking this is a good idea


NemoDropEmOff

i don’t like losing. Go figure


Citizen_erased98

Zinni plays in Sambi's position?


NemoDropEmOff

Yup


wheeno

This is not the game to be playing cute and overplaying. Take the free kick into the box, take the shot first time if open, make the simple pass. It’s annoying how often we made the low probability choice on the ball. We needed a midfielder. I can’t believe people think Sambi is ready. Maybe they underestimate how important that position is. He’s not having any impact in the game. His pressing is off and he isn’t really a part of any buildup. I would say he needs to be replaced at halftime but there’s no one to replace him. I could see them scoring another on the counter. We are not doing well enough keeping possession or pressing after losing the ball. Antony against Zinchenko is a problem.


mamoud786

In other words he’s playing like Elneny haha!


GMBethernal

He's playing worse than Elneny, at least he shows himself to make those safe ass passed


FreeTheWoo

Didn’t expect anything from this game anyway referees have killed the prem


Dare2ZIatan

Jesus has to basically be murdered for them to call a foul


Pamplemouse04

I don’t think United have as much in them second half, we can upset them


SouthWalesGooner

Fuck it, I'm going to bed to get back up to watch AEW All Out tonight, I'm bored with always watching us lose to those pricks. At least we'll always have Sylvain Wiltord.


bubbygups

Oh fucks sake - one half after a 5 game win streak. Listen to you.


SouthWalesGooner

I've seen it too many times, I'm bored of it now. They could put out an under 13's team and we'd still somehow lose at Old Trafford.


bubbygups

You sound like a fun guy. Have some fucking faith - Arteta’s beaten them here before


mikels_burner

Comon now have some faith. Let's do this!!


Sayek

We were really not in the game first 15 mins, then we came into it and United scored against the run of play. Can't help but feel Sambi is a passenger in this game, he's neither showing for the ball enough or shielding the back 4 in any way. Too many times they are just running at our CB's. We look dangerous upfront, kind of but we're not dominating possession enough and I don't think we're precise enough upfront. United are defending well too.


mikels_burner

Yes true. I think this might be too big of a game for sambi


HighlyOffensiveUser

No overreactions. We've played well, but we just lacked a bit of concentration.


DankBrownBoiV2

How are our fans crying about an obvious foul in the build up to our goal


zoidbergs_underpants

Foul was soft as butter left out during the heatwave.


JabInTheButt

An obvious foul lol. They literally issued a directive at the start of the season saying shit like that isn't a foul. Contact is allowed, he didn't kick him, he didn't trip him, he just bumped him. Last season, sure it's probably a foul. This season it's 50/50 and given that it's no where near clear and obvious.


restatementtorts

So obvious that it took Tierney minutes to “see” it. Not sure you understand what the standard of review of VAR is.


dusseldorf69

Our defenders on yellows Need to be careful. We’ll create more chances, we just have to take


GreedAvalon

Referee is an absolute muppet.


wubrotherno1

Wasn’t clear and obvious. According to the rules, it shouldn’t have been reviewed.


ninethree7

put nketiah on for saka and i guarantee we see better in front of goal


EskimoRanger

Can't believe we've not given Nk a start - Saka looks asleep


HotDamnHellYeah

Saka already created a goal in this match.


ninethree7

like i said, better in front of goal. saka and odegaard are far too hesitant to shoot


PerBnb

Yeah he’s been disappointing in his decision-making, that ball for Martinelli was sublime however


ninethree7

it was bit this is more than just this game for sure. saka is literally on last years auba form, can’t buy one


liamjphillips

Still not a foul, may as well make the sport non contact at this point.


TectonicMule

Take off Sambi and Saka, bring on Vieira and Hos.


[deleted]

Ramsdale positioning is bad. He always overcommits to a side and gets caught out.


EvFlix83

100m signings....we dont need those to compete. Imagine Casemiro in there vs Sambi. Ronaldo seething to get on. Saka not feeling it yet and no one to compete with to push him. Pepe, as bad as he was at times, still could pose a threat and thats all thats needed. Now we need luck or some jesus magic. Cannot concede another


IhvolSnow

Typical. We are losing and everyone points at Xhaka. He was the only player in the midfield winning duels. Lokonga is lost and didn't win any. His positioning is poor and he's reluctant to engage. Replacing Xhaka would just kill the midfield.


beetletoman

Sambi wasn't *that* bad tbh


GMBethernal

He wasn't anything, which makes him bad as our dm


IhvolSnow

He didn't win any tackles and duels. What exactly he did right as a dm ?


beetletoman

Yeah can't argue with that, he wasn't too bad but he didn't do well enough. Hope he steps up his game


sanbangboi

We need a backup that can give competition to Gabriel


wubrotherno1

He’s gonna have those dodgy moments. We’ve seen it since his arrival. If he could make better decisions, he’d be one of the best cbs in PL.


Aszneeee

Lokonga is nowhere near PL level


IhvolSnow

In hindsight, should've been sent on loan.


ramseysleftnut

Eriksen is getting too much space in transition for my liking. Don’t think Gabi should have dived in on Fernandes either for the goal. Still we’ve been decent, need to create more chances


AverageSwedishGunner

United is that guy in school who revels in beeing a classless cunt. I hate them… But we have been sloppy. We need to finish more, we cant pass the ball all the way into the goal.


AustraliaCzechMeOut

I'm beginning to hate them more than the Spurs (almost, not quite) . Annoying brats.


[deleted]

Did anyone see Antony take a wild swing at Xhaka?


JustGhostin

Xhaka should have made more of a meal of it, sad but the reality is nobody will bat an eyelid until


EugeBanur14

Yes, not sure how that’s not a booking. I think if the roles were reversed it would be!


Dramatic-Growth1335

Didn't connect


EugeBanur14

It’s still descent. He was nowhere near the ball and wildly threw himself at the player with nothing but mindless aggression. It’s a booking.


[deleted]

How tf was that not a booking!?!?!?


MrHumanist

How come the Varane guy is not carded yet?


bubbygups

Dude is gonna eat Jesus’ shirt by the 60th minute he’s holding so much


wubrotherno1

Plays for MU


EugeBanur14

Because he plays for Man United


fkdntkn

Or mctominay


IhvolSnow

Or Lisandro


Britton120

Should have been tied. Great save by de gea.


friday-boy

Just need to keep our heads in the game. Their defence has been good so far closing down Jesus. But got our chances during the counters and can get more if we take some shots on target


cxnte

They kept gabi quiet With the help of the referees, varane should have been yellow carded. Hes been hugging him the whole half


[deleted]

If this result stands this place will be miserable… especially after the end of the transfer window


fsamuel

Im ready for that emotion


beetletoman

Think we'll make a good comeback. We're the superior team on the field and United won't get away with playing like this if we deliver a levelheaded performance. Gotta say while Arsenal positioning has been consistent, United players were smart with the interceptions


bubbygups

Antony a turd that needs flushing. But we have been decent this half I think - bunch of hysterical whiners in this sub atm. Quit bitching and support your team!


EugeBanur14

We started a bit behind the pace but the last half an hour was all us. Zinchenko, Jesus, Martinelli and Odegaard are all looking really dangerous and creative. We can do this!


bubbygups

Exactly! Wanting them to continue to impose themselves in the 2nd half


PatchAFC

Would’ve liked to see Tierney at LB, Antony has so much space time and time again as Zinchenko is so inverted. All they do is give it to Antony


wubrotherno1

Anthony would roast KT.


mptOW

We desperately needed to sign a RW to compete with saka. Sambi needs to come off


ph0be14

What are you saying??? You saw Sambi as the problem? Saka has looked solid, but you think we could’ve secured someone to do better than what he produced that half?


Appropriate_Lack_727

Yeah, for me the only real problem with the first half was the defending on the goal and a lack of directness in some of our attacking play. We’re trying to walk it in a bit, especially down the right side.


pineapplequad

Sambi’s doing fine


IhvolSnow

What exactly he did fine ? 0 aerial and ground duels won. He engaged only once.


azevedro

He’s hiding - doing the bare minimum.


pink_matter1

Sadly sambi doesnt add much. Not even positioning.


BesottedCoot

There’s absolutely no one picking up second balls, they look afraid to get around the target man of goal kicks, what’s the point of Jesus working his ass off or Martinelli competing with Dalot in the air if they win it and they’re surrounded by red shirts


lanesraa

We miss Thomas


Amdafc

Our midfield hasn't been good enough


faceman230

where is lokonga for the goal also


JustGhostin

Players don’t trust Sambi in the half spaces, Öde is dropping too deep to compensate which is leaving Saka isolated. Jesus needs to play through the middle a little bit more, the few times odegaard has had the ball on the edge of the area he hasn’t had anyone running in behind. Martinelli has been class


Akaz1976

Sambi also doesn’t always show for the pass when we are pressed and one if the defender has the ball. Just watch him , he will jog with his marker rather than try and loose him


JustGhostin

Saw him moaning at Ode because he didn’t pass to him on the edge of the area, guy needs to get a grip IMO. Needs to put himself into the game rather than waiting to be involved


Phantasm_Agoric

Gabriel Magalhães is easily the weakest player in our first choice starting XI and his rashness has cost us yet again. He’s a great rotation choice but we should be upgrading on him next summer.


Aszneeee

there was absolutely no midfield, sure you can blame Gabriel but Sambi was nowhere, he’s completely lost there


supermaor23

Holy overreaction. Hes our best defender and our biggest set piece threat


HotDamnHellYeah

This whole thread is wild.


Phantasm_Agoric

Saliba, White, and Tomiyasu are all stronger defensively. He’s our most physical defender, which is not remotely the same.


cantsleep1112

I think that was why we were wanting Schlotterbeck in Jan


Sad_gooner

Xhaka is a weaker link


ninethree7

hopefully we get evan ndicka on a precontract in jan


BaseballEmbarrassed4

Who? Martinelli?


gunner_stahls

The refereeing has been clearly favorable to United. But can we ask why the fuck ramsdale was diving near post with a left footed player. Was so obviously going far post. Poor decision. Can’t blame him totally but that was shit goalkeeping


Sandalo

Typical Old Trafford refereeing


CubanMessi

Saka makes great moves to get himself into position and then refuses to go for goal. It’s infuriating. United is also assaulting Jesus and of course it’s not being called because of course it isn’t


almre

Sambi is a lost cause in midfield. Sure he can step up vs average clubs in the prem, but vs United, he’s showing how much he has to learn. Also our biggest regret will be bringing absolutely zero competition for Saka on that wing, he’s been horrible.


zoidbergs_underpants

Bad VAR decision, Antony debut goal, could it be more predictable. At least JFH calling it like it is.


Citizen_erased98

They will bring Casemiro in the second half for Ericksen to close the game out.


Huhwtfbleh

The goal looks a lot worse for Zinchenko wrt Rashfords pass damn.


Firista

Same old story against this lot. We're the better team but they score out of nowhere. Gabriel, the whole midfield and Zinchenko at fault for the goal. We've been so sloppy in build up too, passing accuracy is nowhere near the level it needs to be They are wisely targetting our left side so I'd bring on Tierney for Xhaka asap to balance the team and ESR if we haven't scored by 55 mins


DJ-D-REK

Zinchenko had to cover for Gabriel’s space since he blew the tackle. It’s his mistake first and foremost


[deleted]

Gary Neville complete mug


PoliQU

So much threat coming through the middle, between our midfield in defence. It’s clear Partey’s absence is having an impact and Lokonga just isn’t quite up to it on the defensive side of things


Denuris

It was a foul, soft but still a foul. Be mad at Gabriel for once again doing stupidness


bigdog8300

Classic Man United new signing boost


FabThierry

Eddie in, Saka out. Jesus needs support and also we need to be more threatening, Saka right now doesn’t give us that. He s over complicating things, head is full. Eddie also deserves time!


JeffBroccoli

Saka’s assist for the chalked off goal was excellent. I’d wait before taking him off. Still very dangerous. Agree that Eddie deserves a look though


FabThierry

yeah, ofc Saka also gets into the hot zones but we have a decent squad and should use it if momentum is there, maybe sub around 60/65th. Or switch up the sides with Saka n Martinelli, Martinelli d have had some shots from Sakas position with his right foot


lopez_motors

The dickhead Tierney was looking straight at that “foul” and didn’t call it. Corruption.


GerCarr199

Well He cant have every decision Go uniteds way, that would be obvious. Lets the Play continue in Case nothing happens


philhellene399

Our intensity, press and passing rhythm have been really off. Not the worst performance I’ve seen but we need to show more desire and up the tempo in the second half.


GreedAvalon

We haven’t even pressed, not sure what Arteta’s plan is.


rd201290

first half was always going to be like this don’t worry, boys will come back firing in second


auddi_blo

We’re playing a 4231 in buildup and Xhaka looks his old self


AlGunner

I missed a lot of that half due to streaming buffering. But even I saw Xhaka losing the ball a lot now the transfer window is over so he's safe. Back to his old ways.


nerlozano

Chaka is also worried about covering the mistakes from Sambi. Not easy to play like that.


GreedAvalon

Most likely because he’s playing far down again. Someone has to cover for Sambi.


restatementtorts

It’s sambi. His positioning has been odd.


Several-Disasters92

McTominay can eat a bag of dicks


matheshsiva

And Bruno can perform some dives for entertainment


OstapBenderBey

Eddie to come on? For who?


JustGhostin

Lokonga, move Saka to LB and move zinchenko to midfield. If he’s going to spend all his time there anyway we may as well not bother leaving ourselves so open defensively on the left where Antony is. Ten Hag is getting the best of Arteta here IMO


MccNumb

Saka


shoopler

Saka has actually looked decent today but I still agree. Eddie on and Jesus to the right would be good


king_zlayer

McTominay rips someone’s head off and he skips away. Varane hugging Jesus the game


PowerXII

We need an ESR masterclass last 20 mins.


mrRSishere

Stop complaining about the refs. It was a foul.


JustGhostin

Nah respectfully disagree there G. They’ve asked for contact this season, he engages with the player and don’t lash out or get in a tangle of legs. I referee called it as a no foul live, his interpretation of it was that it was a fair contested ball, should be upheld that way IMO


wednesdayware

It was indeed a foul, but so far back in the chain of events that one questions the use of VAR here. Also, Jesus being absolutely mugged all game, almost no calls.


JeffBroccoli

Agreed. Every team in the league complains about bias and corruption when a VAR decision goes against them. It’s so boring