After events earlier in the afternoon i suppose it was imperitive that we emerged with the three points from the game and thanks to Welbeck's goal ten minutes from time we did indeed manage to keep the pressure on City. If that final ball had been better in the first 45 minutes it could have been so much easier.
I was hoping that Jones would be paired alongside Carrick in central midfield, but Fergie chose to start Jones at right back and pair Giggs with Carrick in the middle of the pitch. I was definitely hoping that Jones would start in the middle of the park at Anfield next week, but the twisted ankle that saw him leave the pitch after just a quater of an hour has put paid to that. Just what we didn't need another injury, let's hope it's not as bad as it looked.
United completely bossed the first half, the only disappointment being it took us until the last minute of the first half to actually get on the scoreboard. Wenger chose to put Vermaelen on Valencia meaning Valencia was never going to be as dominant as he has been over the last few weeks. This meant that Nani had to be more on his game than he has been recently. But as easily as Nani found it to be his man, the out of position Djourou, he couldn't produce the final ball when it mattered.
Once again Welbeck was causing the back line of the opposition all kinds of problems, but Rooney was slightly disappointing again. Giggs and Carrick dominated the middle of the park as Arsenal starngely sat back. When the goal did come, it was simplicity itself as Nani fed Giggs who put in the perfect centre for Valencia to hit the back of the net with a rare header. So the first half domination didn't go to waste as looked like happening.
The second period saw Arsenal remember that they were the home side as they started to cause our back line problems. All the talk before the game had been about keeping Van Perise quiet, which United had managed fairly easilyup this point. But a Smalling slip saw Arsenal break forward and saw Van Persie produce the miss of the match. It was now end to end and Welbeck saw an effort he hit unbalanced cleared off the line by Mertesacker. That looked like it could be a crucial miss when Van Persie equalied with twenty minutes to go.
Inexplicably Wenger then took off Chamberlain who had probably been the home teams most dangerous player to replace him with the Russian Arshavin. It didn't take long for the Arsenal fans jeers to be fully vindicated when Arshavin lost Valencia all too easily who then produced one of his runs and put the ball on a plate for Welbeck who made no mistake. United deserved the three points but we made harder work of it than should have been the case. I would imagine next Saturday's fourth round tie at Anfailed will be a tougher encounter than yesterday regardless of their defeat to Bolton. We will need to be stronger in the middle of the park than we were yesterday, because it will be a battle, i don't expect to see much pretty football next week.
Fergie was happy with yesterday's performance singling Smalling out for praise, whuilst Wenger has to face the music as his relationship with his own fans takes a turn for the worse.
The official site profiles the much mis-understood Michael Carrick, he is playing well at the moment.
Daniel Taylor profiles Ravel Morrison and argues United have never had a player like him, thank fuck for that. Ahead of the north London Manchester double header Gary Neville picks City as his team of the season so far... It sounds like he fancies United's chances.
I was hoping that Jones would be paired alongside Carrick in central midfield, but Fergie chose to start Jones at right back and pair Giggs with Carrick in the middle of the pitch. I was definitely hoping that Jones would start in the middle of the park at Anfield next week, but the twisted ankle that saw him leave the pitch after just a quater of an hour has put paid to that. Just what we didn't need another injury, let's hope it's not as bad as it looked.
United completely bossed the first half, the only disappointment being it took us until the last minute of the first half to actually get on the scoreboard. Wenger chose to put Vermaelen on Valencia meaning Valencia was never going to be as dominant as he has been over the last few weeks. This meant that Nani had to be more on his game than he has been recently. But as easily as Nani found it to be his man, the out of position Djourou, he couldn't produce the final ball when it mattered.
Once again Welbeck was causing the back line of the opposition all kinds of problems, but Rooney was slightly disappointing again. Giggs and Carrick dominated the middle of the park as Arsenal starngely sat back. When the goal did come, it was simplicity itself as Nani fed Giggs who put in the perfect centre for Valencia to hit the back of the net with a rare header. So the first half domination didn't go to waste as looked like happening.
The second period saw Arsenal remember that they were the home side as they started to cause our back line problems. All the talk before the game had been about keeping Van Perise quiet, which United had managed fairly easilyup this point. But a Smalling slip saw Arsenal break forward and saw Van Persie produce the miss of the match. It was now end to end and Welbeck saw an effort he hit unbalanced cleared off the line by Mertesacker. That looked like it could be a crucial miss when Van Persie equalied with twenty minutes to go.
Inexplicably Wenger then took off Chamberlain who had probably been the home teams most dangerous player to replace him with the Russian Arshavin. It didn't take long for the Arsenal fans jeers to be fully vindicated when Arshavin lost Valencia all too easily who then produced one of his runs and put the ball on a plate for Welbeck who made no mistake. United deserved the three points but we made harder work of it than should have been the case. I would imagine next Saturday's fourth round tie at Anfailed will be a tougher encounter than yesterday regardless of their defeat to Bolton. We will need to be stronger in the middle of the park than we were yesterday, because it will be a battle, i don't expect to see much pretty football next week.
Fergie was happy with yesterday's performance singling Smalling out for praise, whuilst Wenger has to face the music as his relationship with his own fans takes a turn for the worse.
The official site profiles the much mis-understood Michael Carrick, he is playing well at the moment.
Daniel Taylor profiles Ravel Morrison and argues United have never had a player like him, thank fuck for that. Ahead of the north London Manchester double header Gary Neville picks City as his team of the season so far... It sounds like he fancies United's chances.
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