Manchester United 4 - 0 Arsenal
By: Dan | February 16th, 2008
Well, that was unpleasant. Very similar to the thrashing Tottenham gave to us in the Carling Cup, Manchester United’s win was painful, but honestly unimportant. With AC Milan next week, our priorities were obviously elsewhere. This year Arsenal has not been able to win games they don’t care about, and it was obvious that no one was motivated for the game. The display was pathetic honestly, but there are more important concerns.
By resting so many players through “injuries”, Arsene showed that he simply didn’t care about this cup. Despite the weakened squad Manchester United put out, Arsenal was completely outplayed. (Darren Fletcher had a brace…Darren Fletcher!). Lehmann and Eduardo (taking Arsenal’s only shot of the game) were the only two who managed to get through the debacle with any dignity intact.
Speaking of dignity, Eboue proved again to have none. I don’t mind him as a player as he is defensively sound, but the only thing he did in the game was get a red card for a terrible tackle. Way to be classy Eboue.
Match “Highlights”:
I also realized that Gilberto has almost finished his Arsenal career. The team is dependent on the high-energy play that Flamini will always offer, and Gilberto destabilized the team today. He has been a great player for us, and it’s sad particularly after his great season last year, but the team has progressed. It seems safe to say that this will be his last season, and even though he has been admirably patient (compared to Diarra), eventually he will move on (probably to Italy). There are plenty of young, talented midfielders we can replace him with, and his absence shouldn’t be too hard to compensate for.
Anyway…onwards to AC Milan. The team needs to brush this game off and focus on Wednesday. And hey, at least Arsenal isn’t Liverpool.
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Owned.
Hopefully Milan will trample you like that too!
(Even though their current run of play is pure shite.)Posted from
United States
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As a man utd supporter (a true red ;D), an EPL faithful, an american, and a human being, there’s no way I could say with any shred of dignity that I want milan to win the game on wednesday. Hey, wenger, you can’t have ‘em all the time, but I’ll be pushing for you london scummers to thrash the fuck outta those italian bastards! let’s bring the trophy back to england where it belongs!
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Awesome game!! United tottally trashed those gunners, yeah can’t just have ‘em all. The reds were brave and they kicked it so well.
im actually watching the game replay and its even better than the real game.Posted from
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Yeah, but Arsenal are favorites to win the league, so it all works out. What will people remember in a year, this result or the fact that Arsenal are the league champions?
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I don’t care what happened today, just as long as we stay on course in the League and UCL. Milan isn’t looking so good in Serie A, let’s just hope their poor form continue. I also hope that Kaka and Clarence Seedorf have horrible games on Wednesday.
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Exactly, RyanJ. As long as Arsenal stays focused on the Champions League and the Premiership, this can be a great season.
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this result is bullshit. i mean, last year we beat united both times. do they give a cup out for that? all that matters is that we don’t drop the points when we see them again in the league.
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Your players are paid to play football. Stop pretending that you don’t care you lost 4-0 (Four! Nil!!) or that your players, particularly Fabregas, shamed themselves by showing they didn’t care. It doesn’t matter if the game’s a friendly, for a player to give up against a big big rival like that on a football pitch is very, very poor.
Arsenal have some very talented players, but at times you lack the passion of the English game that only players like Rooney can provide. When did you ever see him give up on a game of football or look like he didn’t care?
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Don’t get me wrong Sheps, this result is indeed an embarassing one. Four Nil, Wow. However, I’m saying that Arsenal’s priority is a little different. We are the team to beat in the league. We have been the most consistent and by far most impressive. In UCL we’ve also looked pretty damn good. The thing is, when it really matters we show up. When one player doesn’t have a good game, say Fabregas, someone like Bacary or Clichy might show up, that’s the measure of a good team.
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I don’t like the pretension that the FA Cup doesn’t matter - I think it probably did a fair bit. I wouldn’t rate your chances of advancing in the Champions League, despite Milan’s poor form, they have Kaka and an experienced midfield that looks like its been designed to stop Fabregas. And I think it especially should have mattered to the level of player you had out for the Man Utd game - players like Lehmann, Bendtner, Gilberto should really have been playing for a place but it didn’t look like it to me. Feltcher, Carrick, Nani etc definitely played out of their skins like those Arsenal guys should have done. If I was an Arsenal fan, I would be very, very worried if, say, Fabregas and Adebayor found themselves on the treatment table at the end of the year.
As for being “by far most impressive” in the league, you have the same goal difference as United, failed to beat them at home, and are kept 5 points in front only by 2 erratic games by United against their city rivals.
Good luck mid week. I always like to see other English teams advance (might tire you lot out a bit more for the EPL as well!) and like even more the whinging look on Kaka’s face when he discovers, on losing, he can’t show the world his “I belong to Jesus” t-shirt.
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Point taken Sheps. It doesn’t matter how we’re in front the simplicity of it is that we are. If we were to lose Adebayor I think up front we would be a little strained. But, I have confidence in the display that I’ve seen where Flamini, Gallas, and even Eduardo have scored goals in matches where adebayor and fabregas didn’t play well. I do agree that we need to win games that are second priority to us, that proves that we’re an all round team. I also hope that Milan’s midfield perform as they have been doing of late, poor.
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i still say whatever. let’s see if the result is the same if it’s man u- arse in champions league semis or final. or even in the league. we should have played harder, we didn’t but don’t bet on it happening again.
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Arsenal fans - beat them to the League title. This is what is important.
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I agree with you.. Gilberto time at Gunners is over now…
He can adapt more fast and aggressive formationPosted from
Malaysia
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