Mannone has been Arsenals best player. Says a lot about Arsenal.
Manchester United vs. Arsenal
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Good half. Should be more than one up, especially with that shocking penalty miss.
Cleverly has been great this half.
Cleverly has been great this half.
I'm never confident when Rooney steps up.
One word to describe that half. Wasteful!!
RvP giving his shirt to Santos.Men vs boys?
It's the position of the hands that count. Carzolas hands were in an unnatural position when the contact was made. He lifted his hands to stop the ball hitting him. That's NOT ball to hand.
Er why did he give his shirt to Santos
The pen was the correct call. I remember Arse conceding another one like this when Fabregas was in the wall and jumped like that.
Rooney's record might be OK, but we need a proper pen taker.
RvN, Ronaldo... we've had some decent ones.
Rooney's record might be OK, but we need a proper pen taker.
RvN, Ronaldo... we've had some decent ones.
Crap penalty by Rooney but otherwise a very controlled first half.Arsenal have looked extremely poor.I mean in the 8-2 of last season they were playing better than they have so far in the first half
Under what logic wasn't that a pen? You can't handball to save being hit in the face, We won the exact same pen at Blackburn a while back.
He had his arm up, they didn't.
I always hold my breath when rooney's running someone down from behind.
FFS one nil up at home and still we have gloom and doom.
What the feck? RvP giving his jersey to Santos?
feck sake Rooney, in the 45th minute that would effectively kill the game.
Strange game so far. Arsenal seem happy to keep it at one goal. Will probably continue to keep it tight and have a go once they bring on Walcott.
Why the feck isn't RVP taking penalties?
Easiest 45 mins we have had all season. But our final ball has been shocking. We should have put this game to bed long ago. And the 2nd half could be a totally different game.
arse can't be that bad after the break.May go on to rue that penalty miss.
Their hands were by their sides, you cant put both your hands up to block a ball thats heading to your face. Penalty everyday of the week. As someone said, let it hit your face you pansy.
I think Wenger was smiling at that, walking by the side.
Yes - was vaguely boring. Weird, given the start we had, the atmosphere and the array of attacking talent on both sides.
Have a feeling that penalty miss will be costly as Arsenal will re oragnise and come at us the the 2nd half
Rooney never strikes me as a natural penalty taker. Even though he has a decent record.
Evra is enjoying himself today.
This could be one of those games where Arsenal could get two quick goals and then we start playing.
Young is poor.
Young is poor.
I'd say confident as my one word.
once hands are raised that high and it changes direction of the ball, it is always a peno.
great start, pretty on and off after that. Some great moments but didn't capitalize. Very much anybody's game yet. And they'll know that they had a mega let off . .. and they'll surely send on Walcott to try and torment Evra
Better team in the first half, need to step it up a gear or two in the second.
This has me really nervous. Arsenal are bound to come out playing better in the second half, and we might regret all those chances missed. Flogging a dead horse and all that, but Ando for Young is so obviously the mistake in our line-up. We need a little bit of spark, and someone who will gamble with through-balls or a little run here or there. Young won us that penalty but in general he's done feck all.
Its not like RVP hasn't missed a pen for us this season.
Very solid in defence, awful in the attack. Lucky for us Van persie is so clinical so we're going in 1-0 up, but I haven't seen us make this many poor passes in attack in a long time. Our build up play to get there is very good most of the time but the final pass has let us down time and time again. At least Arsenal have been more shite than us
Sack everybody. Sell everybody. Oh, and bring on Chicha & Ando...there's more space in our midfield than in Arsene's coat.
Yeah that is my concern, we need a 2 goal cushion early first half to make sure of the points as I don't fancy the likes of Carzola and Walcott running at us in the last 20 minutes with only a goal in it.
Good defensively so far. Our wingers have been wank though. Especially young. Roon will have a shocker now, he looked frustrated.
Frustrating half really, could have put the game to bed with the penalty, Arsenal short on belief.
Evra has done very well.Except on one occasion where he was a bit too eager, he's done really well.
We couldn't really have hoped for a more comfortable half. Shame about the pen, but there's no need to start shitting ourselves.
Maybe I'm missing something but I thought we looked pretty good. The final ball's been lacking, but we've looked by far the better team. I think Evra has looked like the 2008-9 variety, and Rafael is becoming one of my favourite players.
We just need to keep our composure, make a timely sub (Nani for Young?) and we should be fine.
We just need to keep our composure, make a timely sub (Nani for Young?) and we should be fine.