What I want to see against Manchester United
After watching our friendly game against Bournemouth the other day, I think Mikel Arteta might want to mix things up again. Fabio Vieira scored a stunning volley to put Arsenal in front, but scores were drawn level in the 73rd minute when Bournemouth managed to bag a goal back. Arsenal then went on to win on penalties, but it was a good showing for our lads first pre-season game on the USA Tour.
We now get set to face off against Manchester United who have had two pre-season games already and might look at this game as one where they won’t want to mix things up too much. They could use it to start preparing their players for the new season as they have the community shield against Manchester City coming up. So although I don’t expect Arteta to do the same, I would expect Erik Ten Hag to come out swinging and play a lot of his first team players.
For us, I think we will do more of the same from the game against Bournemouth, a mix of youth projects and first team players, giving the younger players a chance to impress and shine and not overdoing it for the first team players. We have to be careful in this pre-season to not let anyone get injured, but also to prepare them for what is going to be another extremely busy season.
Players like Nketiah and Vieira will no doubt get some minutes as Arsenal look likely to sell them this summer and having them play minutes will hopefully boost their worth in the transfer market. This will also be another chance for Timber and a few others to get used to the swing of things and the systems that Arteta likes to play.
It’s a friendly match so honestly the results don’t matter in the long scheme of things, but because it’s Manchester United, we always want to win. They have been fierce rivals for years and although they have had a decline in performances, while we’ve been improving, it’s still always a tough game and both sides always put 100% on the pitch and want to win.
Hopefully we get to see a few of the youngsters shine give Arteta a bit to think about, I’ve been very critical lately of the way the youth aren’t being presented much of a pathway into the first team and pre-season is the perfect time to change that.
Hopefully everyone stays fit and healthy and we can get the win over the red side of Manchester and give the squad even more confidence going forward.
What’s your thoughts Gooners?
Daisy Mae
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Nobody gets hurt and they get a bit fitter. Thats all that matters.
Agree. Man Utd don’t class games has friendlies so forewarned is forearmed. Caution.
Didn’t go well for ManU in this regard
Thats right PJ. The most important things is being fit.
Heavy thumping. According to Erik they don’t do friendlies, so yeah, let’s show them what we are capable of by hitting them with fluid display.
Hey Erik you beat us 2-0 in this fixture last pre-season. See what that was worth when it counted 🤣🤣🤣
Let’s prove superior technical ability without injury and win the game against dirty tactics United.
What I want to see?
No injuries whatsoever. Thanks
I think Man Utd did beat us Arsenal in our USA tour in this so called friendly match fixture.
It’s a big game in USA between Arsenal and Manchester United. Irrespective of whether its a pre-season friendly match.
Nevertheless, despite that Raya, Ramsdale, Rice and Sake aren’tgoing to be available for the match due to their extended season break.
But not withstanding, the Gunners SHOULD spank the Red Devils by a defeat in the match. So as to serve as a moral booster to us ahead of our next Liverpool game.
Yes! Arteta could still give some of the Arsenal youth players minutes who exceled in the last Bournemouth game.
Jesus should’ve just scored
1-0 down 🙄
No big deal. I have no idea how we are playing, nor care much. By all accounts United have sent on a much stronger team than ours and that’s ok too. It’s only a training run, come. exhibition. On the serious side I expect the Mancs to be much more of a threat this season. Unlike us they have given more opportunities to players with legs.
1-1 Jesus
2-1 Martinelli
Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri must feature in all league cup games by all means this season. Also, league matches dusted with few minutes to spare should have these boys. Arteta must just find a formula for them to help in gaining more experience, massive massive talents these boys are.
Full time 2-1. Now penalties.
Lost the penalty shoot out 4-3. Havertz pen was saved, Kiwior put his pen wide.
Very enjoyable match. Many good performances. Did very well against the ManU press. I have to admit Onana is fun to watch. Fine assists from Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly. Those are the well timed bursts of speed we love to see from Martinelli.
That was a very good game for preseason
Nobody injured for Arsenal which was the main priority.
Another of these silly dual-format “results” with the actual score and then a really daft penalty shootout, regardless of how the match finished.
The only disappointment was that for Arsenal’s second game on the tour, the stadium wasn’t full. OK, nothing at all like the huge embarrassment of the 13,000 that turned out for Bournemouth but nevertheless. The corresponding match against Utd last year attracted a record crowd apparently.
Someone calculated that Arsenal will have travelled around 11,500 miles in total for this US tour so it would be good to have one full house. Perhaps Liverpool will attract the fans.
Just short of 63,000 in a 70,000 stadium isn’t bad.
Agree. It’s amazing and a testament to their devotion that they would come out in those numbers just to glimpse our Gunners in a friendly. Even the 13,000 is impressive given that the overwhelming majority of people in the US have never heard of Bournemouth.
Those Gooners are 8 time zones away (New York is only 5 away) and have to get up in the early hours of the morning to ever see any of the daytime games live. These are true fans and their number is growing as with the rest of the world I believe.
Not a bad warm up game, considering we are now approaching the final phase.
Only watched about fifteen minutes of highlights, but it seemed to me that well were playing the better football, we’re much better going forward and the fluency of the passing was excellent. Was our equaliser offside though?
I believe you would have been pleased with just about everything Ken. Very encouraging start imo. I was surprised with the passing fluency this early on and with so many different personnel. You could feel the hunger.
I was very impressed with how we managed Manure’s press again especially given the different personnel involved for us and the devils’ throwing everything into it. I have to admit being entertained by Onana, he is one unique keeper.
Let’s hope this continues BB – could this be our season?
The vibes are there, that’s for sure!