Chapter 667: Too Heavy a Hand

Manchester United's opponent in the 15th round of the league is Arsenal, which is the first hurdle for Manchester United to challenge AC Milan's 58-match unbeaten record in the top five European leagues.

As the former Premier League unbeaten record holder, although Manchester United has now left Arsenal's original 49-game unbeaten record far behind, Arsenal will definitely fight Manchester United in the game for the sake of former glory.

You know, Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten record ended in the hands of Manchester United.

After the end of last season, Wenger left Arsenal, where he had coached for 22 years, and the Gunners ushered in the post-Wenger era.

In order to compete with Manchester United and other Premier League giants, Arsenal not only spent more than 70 million pounds to recruit reinforcements, but also invited the famous coach Emery, naturally hoping to make a difference in the Premier League.

After the start of the new season, Arsenal only ranked fifth in the Premier League, which seemed to be a poor performance, but this was not because Arsenal played too badly, but because its competitors performed too well.

In the first 14 rounds of the Premier League, Arsenal's record was 9 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, with 30 points and an average of 2.14 points per game.

Such a scoring rate, if it were in any other league, would rank in the top two of the standings.

Moreover, Arsenal lost two games, one to Manchester City and the other to Chelsea. In the match against the other two teams of the big6 teams, Arsenal drew with Liverpool and defeated Tottenham, and the performance was not bad.

Especially in the last round, Arsenal was 1:2 behind at halftime, but scored three goals in the second half and won 4:2, which was a hearty victory.

This gave Emery strong confidence. In an interview, he said that no team in the past 54 Premier League games could beat Manchester United, which was a shame for the Premier League.

The intention to stop Manchester United could not be more obvious.

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On December 5, Manchester, Old Trafford, Manchester United played against Arsenal at home.

This game has attracted much attention because of the ambitious remarks made by Arsenal head coach Emery before the game. Everyone wants to see whether this famous Spanish coach with the title of "King of the Europa League" can really lead Arsenal to break Manchester United's unbeaten record.

Before the game, the head coaches of both sides shook hands.

Mourinho shook Emery's hand, and said with an extremely sincere expression and tone: "Oh, Mr. Emery, I want to thank you."

Thank me? Is this guy crazy?

"The team has remained unbeaten, and I am worried that the players are a little bit arrogant." Mourinho shook his head and said, "In every game, I have to rack my brains to say some words of encouragement, so that everyone will not be too proud."

What do you mean?

"Thank you, there is no need to mobilize for this game at all." Mourinho held Emery's hands with both hands and thanked him very sincerely, "Thank you so much, let's look forward to a wonderful game together."

Emery was a little confused. Seeing Mourinho "whoosh" let go of his hand and turned away without hesitation, he suddenly felt something was not good.

I just want to show off, why does it seem like a big deal?

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For such a heavyweight game, the Premier League broadcaster naturally arranged the most famous commentary partners to comment on this game, that is, the two famous commentators Andy Gray and Martin Taylor.

"Objectively speaking, Arsenal still has a certain confidence to stop Manchester United." Andy Gray said, "After all, they defeated their arch-rival Tottenham in the North London derby four days ago."

"Maybe Arsenal can really break Manchester United's unbeaten record and create a small miracle?" A commentator from another country said.

In short, everyone is looking forward to it.

Ferguson led Manchester United to dominate the Premier League for 21 years, and finally left, allowing other teams to turn around. But Mourinho took over Old Trafford, and Manchester United has dominated the Premier League for two consecutive years, making other teams feel deeply desperate.

The Premier League has suffered Manchester United for a long time!

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The game started.

Manchester United answered everyone's questions with a goal in the ninth minute after the opening.

"Bruno Fernandez--!!!" the commentator shouted loudly.

In the stands of Old Trafford, Manchester United fans jumped up from their seats, raised their arms and cheered to celebrate the goal.

"Beautiful shot! Harry Kane assisted Bruno to score!"

"Wonderful long shot! The Portuguese broke the deadlock for Manchester United early!"

"Emery's pre-match remarks were very impressive, but facing the long shot of the World Footballer of the Year, perhaps he should understand that you can't eat anything casually, and you can't say anything casually." Commentator Zhan Jun shouted happily.

After scoring the goal, Bruno ran to the sidelines and stretched out his right hand. Mourinho laughed and stretched out his hand, and the two clapped hands.

The camera immediately turned to the visiting team's coaching bench, and Emery's face was a little gloomy.

This was Rashford's cross from the side, and Harry Kane held the defender and knocked the ball back. Bruno followed up and shot the ball, and the football was like a cannonball, hanging straight into the dead corner of the goal.

Arsenal goalkeeper Leno just subconsciously stretched out his hand, and there was no way to stop the shot.

The cheers at Old Trafford were deafening.

Bruno's goal opened the door to victory for Manchester United. His explosive shot not only boosted the morale of Manchester United, but also made the players of the opponent Arsenal realize a reality: they want to be dragon-slaying heroes, want to Finding a sense of presence in Manchester United is a dream!

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Eleven minutes later, in the 20th minute of the game, Mbappe broke through from the right and passed diagonally in front of the goal. Harry Kane tapped his right foot, avoided the interception of the Arsenal defender, and succeeded in volleying from a small angle.

2:0!

Manchester United took a two-goal lead over Arsenal in just twenty minutes.

After scoring, Harry Kane also learned from Bruno's operation. He laughed and ran to the sidelines to high-five Mourinho.

This is nothing less than a second slap on Arsenal's face.

However, Arsenal are not weaklings who can do whatever they want, they are still very capable.

In the 26th minute, Arsenal pulled one back. Torreira took a corner kick from the left. Mustafi got rid of Van Dijk who was marking him in the penalty area and jumped towards the goal. De Gea held the ball with both hands, but the ball was still flying towards the goal. Kanter in the corner cleared the ball, but the referee determined that the goal was valid after being reminded by goal-line technology.

Judging from the slow motion, the ball has clearly crossed Manchester United's goal line.

This goal gave Arsenal people hope, but it also stimulated the Manchester United players on the field.

In the 30th minute, Bruno took a direct free kick 30 yards from the front of the penalty area. Leno missed the ball and Mbappe followed up with a cross from the right. Rashford scored in front of the goal and changed the score to 3 :1.

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Manchester United's players were celebrating enthusiastically, while Arsenal's side was somewhat unmotivated.

In fact, it is very interesting that Arsenal coach Emery came out to speak out before the game, but not a single Arsenal player came out to echo their coach's words.

"Damn it! Just two goals conceded? And looking at this situation, the Manchester United people will not let us go easily."

Arsenal's players were murmuring.

Yes, they do not support coach Emery's words and actions before the game.

Of course, no one was particularly opposed to it at first and didn’t pay much attention to it.

But at this moment, facing Manchester United, who was opening their mouths for blood, the Arsenal players were afraid and began to turn over the head coach's old scores.

We at Arsenal don’t have the strength to compete for the championship now. We just need to compete for a place in the Champions League. Do we need to provoke the behemoth Manchester United?

Yes, maybe some people were proud and happy about what Emery said before the game that they reversed and defeated Tottenham in the north London derby, but now they are only complaining.

This kind of complaint and fear began to spread among Arsenal players. So in the subsequent games, Arsenal players seemed to have little fighting spirit.

They felt a little scared when they thought that they were facing an angry and invincible master who wanted to torture them to death.

The two teams have met 6 times in the past two seasons. Except for the 36th round of the 2016-2017 Premier League season, when Manchester United almost secured the league title and was somewhat absent-minded, Arsenal won a victory. , Arsenal lost all games, including big wins like 5:1 and 4:0.

It can be said that Arsenal has been psychologically affected when facing Manchester United.

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The game then entered Manchester United's rhythm, but they did not continue to score in the first half.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United's offense did not slow down.

In the 56th minute, Bruno took a free kick and Maguire scored with a header, expanding the score to 4:1.

Mourinho also started to make substitutions. He replaced three starting players Harry Kane, Mbappe and Gundogan in one go. Replaced by McTominay, Mahrez and Mata.

The victory is decided and it's time to give the main players some rest time.

In the camera, Arsenal head coach Emery sat expressionless in his seat.

Compared with losing, Mourinho's behavior of using Arsenal to train and gain experience is simply a greater humiliation.

In the 76th minute, Bruno's direct free kick was saved by the goalkeeper. Harry Kane half-turned and passed, and was cleared by Arsenal defenders again. However, facing Mahrez's tackle, Arsenal had no choice.

5:1!

Manchester United's players went to the touchline to high-five their manager Mourinho for the fifth time.

Ten minutes later, Bruno scored twice, rewriting the score to 6:1.

In stoppage time, Cancelo made a pass and assisted McTominay to score a header in front of the goal, locking the score at 7:1!

Old Trafford had already exploded into obscurity.

In the commentary box, the commentator couldn't bear it anymore. Someone kept shouting "Poor Arsenal, poor Emery."

In the end, the score was fixed at 7:1. Arsenal suffered one of their most painful defeats against Manchester United in history, which was not much different from the previous 8:2.

After the game, Mourinho was very polite and immediately approached Emery to shake hands.

He grabbed Emery's hands enthusiastically: I'm so sorry, I want to criticize these guys, I'm sorry, they were too cruel.

Emery: ...