2 games to win an unlikely title, and the powers that be have given us United away as the penultimate fixture.
Let's not beat around the bush here, OT is a graveyard for us. Even when we play well, we can never quite get a good result over the line. Last season, I thought we played well enough to at least draw, but we managed to lose it 3-1. The last time we properly won a league fixture there was in 2006, when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came off the bench (I don't really count the COVID era fixture).
United's problems have been obvious pretty much all season. They can't keep their players fit, their manager can't quite work out a good enough system to get a tune out of the ones that are. Oceans of space between their lines that teams have exploited many times over the season.
I expect that to change on Sunday. United traditionally set up deep and hit us on the counter or a ball over the top with all their pacy players up front. The previous fixture was a weird one to watch, we knew that's exactly what their plan was, and we seemed afraid to overcommit in attack for fear of rashford being released into space. We managed to win it late on with Declan Rice announcing himself to the Emirates faithful. One thing is for sure, if ten Hag sets them up like they have the last few weeks, I'm sure even we will steamroller them. Rashford will probably score, he always bloody does against us.
As a funny sidenote, it seems ten Hag has a particular dislike for arsenal. He's mentioned a few times in unrelated press conferences how he thinks the earlier game at the Emirates was unjust, even though it wasn't. I remember last season after they beat us at OT, there were reports he told his players that they should be top instead of us. It's very strange behaviour from the hairless one. As far as I can tell, he seems a tad bitter that Arteta, the younger Pep protogee, has come on leaps and bounds within the last couple of years. And that he has a full head of hair.
For what it's worth, I think he's a good coach, but the Utd job is just too big for him. He doesn't exactly exude charisma in interviews/press conferences, and his man management skills, plus his recruitment seem extremely below par.
If they set up as they normally do, I predict a comfortable Arsenal win. If they set up as I think they will, it'll be a much tougher game. Either way, we have to win it to keep our faint title hopes alive. Up the Gunners.
Old Trafford on Sunday
posted on 10/5/24
Arteta has never been in a Europa Final .
posted on 10/5/24
comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Chris H (U15205)
posted 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
EtH is a loser, plain and simple. You see it with the amount of excuses he rolls out, week after week. Didn't see the same with Arteta when he inherited a similar mediocre squad, just shipped out the bad eggs and got his team together.
We should really be going there and putting 3 or 4 past them, even if they get a couple of their injured players back. Hopefully Sir Jim getting the admin staff to stop working from home and getting Rashford the correct pillow wont have solved all their issues by Sunday.
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Except the comments from yourself after you lost the Europa final to Chelsea where you called for his head.
😂
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You mistaken me for someone else?
posted on 10/5/24
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 3 hours, 8 minutes ago
Funny how all the United fans are trying to deflect the pressure from the own team. Acting like we are playing Luton.
It's going to a very tight game. I don't think we will overcommit in attack.
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What pressure? They're not really playing for anything of note
posted on 10/5/24
comment by Chris H (U15205)
posted 3 hours, 30 minutes ago
EtH is a loser, plain and simple. You see it with the amount of excuses he rolls out, week after week. Didn't see the same with Arteta when he inherited a similar mediocre squad, just shipped out the bad eggs and got his team together.
We should really be going there and putting 3 or 4 past them, even if they get a couple of their injured players back. Hopefully Sir Jim getting the admin staff to stop working from home and getting Rashford the correct pillow wont have solved all their issues by Sunday.
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He comes across like a school teacher that hates children.
Hopefully we do, we owe them a good pasting.
posted on 10/5/24
This isn’t about the title, it’s about getting that bald priiick the sack. We need to inflict an embarrassingly heavy defeat on them so the deluded one has no excuses to fall back on.
Prediction
United 2-1 Arsenal
Rashford with a late pen to win it
posted on 10/5/24
Do we want the bald piiick sacked? Don't we want to toy with him for a bit first?
posted on 10/5/24
His interviews annoy me too much even when they have nothing to do with Arsenal. United will replace him with another bum anyway
posted on 10/5/24
Now that Arsenal have a very slim chance of winning the league and Liverpool almost eliminated mathematically I want Utd to get a win to lift our spirits. At one point I would have happily conceded 3 points if it meant City were denied to league title, Arsenal would have been the lesser of all the evils (the hilarious option).
posted on 10/5/24
It will be the easiest game of the season for Arsee.
Man 1 - 4 Arsee
posted on 10/5/24
If this was at the Emirates, I think we would hammer united
However, it's at OT. I have seen worse united teams get points of us