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The title of yesterday’s blog was ‘Just win’, and Arsenal did exactly that. They won, just. A single Leandro Trossard goal was enough to take all three points and ensure the destination of the title goes down to the final day.
I said in that blog I thought it was a difficult game to write about beforehand, and I think it’s a difficult game to write about afterwards too. This was, on paper, the worst Manchester United line-up I’ve seen in a very long time. They probably put out League Cup sides with more quality than this one down the years. Arsenal, meanwhile, were unchanged, packed full of quality, and a team that had won 14 of its last 16 games going into this one. It should have been no contest.
But that’s not how football works. We didn’t play anywhere near as well as we can, and United weren’t completely hopeless, so it was all quite even. It’s hard to put your finger on why. From their perspective, reacting to a 4-0 hammering by Crystal Palace was probably part of it. Save some face in front of their home fans. From ours, it could have been the pressure of the title race, the impact of Man City’s result against Fulham, our record at Old Trafford, or just an off-day. It was probably a little of all of them.
Sometimes what you need on a day like this is a bit of luck, and while there was nothing fortunate about the execution of our goal, it was lucky for us that United’s injury list is so bad that Casemiro was playing at centre-half. He has clearly decided that running is not for him anymore, and the way he lazily ambled out from the back left space for Kai Havertz to exploit as the Brazilian played him onside. The German took it into the box, the low cross was perfect for the superb movement of Trossard, who tucked home to make it 1-0. His run of goalscoring feels very Freddie Ljungberg, and let’s hope the scoreline from this game – which reminds you of Marc Overmars in…
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Publish date : 2024-05-13 06:19:37
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