Chapter 516: Big Victory over the Gunners

At 5:30 pm local time on December 2, UK local time, in the 15th round of the Premier League, Manchester United visited the Emirates Stadium to challenge Arsenal.

This is a strong dialogue between the team at the top of the standings and the third-placed team.

Before the game, the media predicted that Arsenal should be able to defeat Manchester United at home, because the Gunners have a very strong record at home this season, winning all 7 home games.

Although Manchester United is in great form this season, winning 14 consecutive games at the beginning of the league and 15 consecutive victories across seasons, setting a winning streak in Premier League history, many people believe that Manchester United has reached the end of its strength and it is time to lose the game.

Moreover, it was Arsenal who ended Manchester United's 25-game unbeaten run at home last season and maintained the suspense of the Premier League title.

Although we will face the strong opponent Atletico Madrid at Old Trafford in midweek, Mourinho still put together the strongest lineup to play against Arsenal.

The opponents in this game were much stronger than the previous round, but the result once again surprised everyone: 0:4!

The home team's score is in front and the away team's score is in the back.

Manchester United beat Arsenal away from home!

In the forty-five minutes of the first half, the audience could not see Arsenal shooting or attacking at all. They were suppressed by Manchester United and could not even make it through the half. Every time Manchester United attacks, it can threaten Arsenal's goal.

The Red Devils took the lead in the 4th minute. Valencia stole the ball in the frontcourt, Bruno passed the ball, and Valencia shot low from 10 yards on the right side of the penalty area. The ball passed between Monreal's legs and into the far corner.

Manchester United expanded the score in the 11th minute. Harry Kane stole Mustafi. Rashford stopped the ball in the penalty area and passed the ball lightly. Mbappe followed up and shot into the lower left corner from 10 yards, 2:0.

Bruno scored another goal in the 36th minute, locking the score at 3:0.

Arsenal woke up from a dream in the second half and their performance improved slightly. Mourinho simply asked the team to launch a defensive counterattack.

Defensive counterattack is really the specialty of Mourinho and Manchester United, and they are naturally comfortable in defensive counterattack. They struggled with Arsenal for forty-five minutes, trading offense and defense. Not only did they successfully defend the three-goal advantage, they also used counterattacks to score Arsenal a goal. This counterattack was again instigated by Bruno.

On the other hand, Arsenal, in the 45 minutes of the second half, they attacked the goal many times, but none of them hit the goal frame.

When they defeated Arsenal, they once again surprised many people. Because although Manchester United has performed well recently, everyone feels that the gap between Arsenal and Manchester United should not be as big as four goals.

After the game, many British media praised Manchester United's victory, and even touted it in disgusting ways.

Although the score of 4:0 does not seem as big as 5:0, Manchester United's opponents in this game are not a bit better than the previous game.

Mourinho's team has yet to allow their opponents to score against them in this game.

This is Manchester United's 12th clean sheet in the Premier League this season, and the league has only lasted 15 rounds!

"The Guardian" reported this game under the title "Manchester United Flying High": "...Arsenal's defense was unable to stop the Red Devils' crazy attack. They fell behind by three goals in the first half. Despite Arsenal's performance in the second half There was a slight improvement, but there was no way back.”

The Sun's post-match headline was "Invincible Manchester United", and the article wrote: "After a suffocating and crazy attack, Manchester United tore the opponent's defense to pieces, and the Red Devils made Arsenal dwarfed by themselves. Manchester United taught Arsenal a good lesson in this game and extended their Premier League winning streak to 16 games. Arsenal defeated Huddersfield 5-0 in the 14th round of the league in midweek. But the collective performance was abnormal, especially the defense was almost useless. The national team coach Southgate also appeared in the stands. Although Arsenal did not have an England international in the starting lineup, there were three England internationals in the Manchester United team.

It can be seen from these media reports that they were impressed by Manchester United's performance.

Although Arsenal has achieved a good record of 10 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses in the previous 25 home games against Manchester United, Manchester United's performance today was indeed outstanding. They dominated everything and defeated their opponent in only half a game. .

Facing Manchester United's crazy pressing, Arsenal's team's pass error rate was as high as 25%, almost twice that of Manchester United.

There is a statistic that reflects the gap between the two teams in the game: Manchester United had 23 shots in the entire game, far ahead of Arsenal's 13 shots. In terms of shooting efficiency, in addition to four goals, Manchester United also hit the goalpost once, and seven other shots were bravely saved by Arsenal goalkeeper Cech.

Arsenal defender Mustafi said after the game: "I don't know what they ate before the game. It was because they performed so wildly on the field. Manchester United obviously played better than us. They ran like a group of savages." …”

Arsenal head coach Arsene Wenger was deeply impressed by Manchester United's midfielder No. 8 Bruno. When Bruno was still playing for Udinese, he led this north London team to play against Bruno's Udinese in the Champions League quarter-finals. That time it can be said that his team was almost completely defeated by Bruno when they had the advantage. In the two rounds of the game, Bruno had 3 shots and 1 pass, helping Udinese eliminate Arsenal with a score of 5:1. .

From that time on, he paid attention to Bruno. There was a time when there were rumors that he was interested in buying Bruno to Arsenal.

In this game, Bruno was in a very forward position, using his excellent physical fitness and interception skills to constantly press Arsenal players in the midfield.

Under his leadership, Manchester United players double-teamed Arsenal players in the midfield. An Arsenal player would always be double-teamed by multiple Manchester United players when he got the ball.

So Arsenal players could only kick the ball with a big foot, and there were naturally more passing errors.

Once Manchester United's midfielders got the ball, they quickly passed it to the front trident - Mbappe, Harry Kane and Rashford, and the few goals they scored were all won by speed.

During the game, Wenger stood on the sidelines and had no solution for Bruno.

Although Bruno only scored one goal in this game, without him stirring up Arsenal's midfield like a blender in the midfield, Manchester United would never win so easily.

So at the press conference after the game, when the media asked him which Manchester United player impressed him the most, he didn't even think about it and blurted out: "Number eight, Bruno. His performance in the midfield was the key to Manchester United's victory over us. I was very impressed by him."