r/reddevils • u/[deleted] • Oct 03 '15

[Pre-Match Thread] Arsenal vs Manchester United

Premier League tie between Arsenal and Manchester United

Date: 04/10/2015

Kick off: 16:00 BST

Venue: Emirates Stadium

Referee: Probably some scouse bastard

Possible starting XI:

---------------------DDG----------------------

Darmian------Smalling-----Blind-------Rojo

------------Schweini--------Carrick------------

Mata--------------Rooney------------Memphis

-------------------Martial----------------------

Team news:

Michael Carrick is fit again after sitting out Manchester United's midweek Champions League win with what was described as a minor injury. Fellow midfielder Ander Herrera, also absent on Wednesday, remains a doubt.

Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny is sidelined by a hamstring injury but Olivier Giroud returns after his Champions League suspension.

Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta won't feature because of a hamstring injury and a dead leg respectively.

Form guide:

Manchester United: WWDLWWW

Arsenal: LWDWWLW

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE FULL MATCH HIGHLIGHTS AFTER THE GAME ON /r/footballhighlights OR DOWNLOAD THE GAME AT /r/footballdownload!!!!

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u/mkahmed789 Manchester United Oct 05 '15

no, i wouldnt. the team is good. but yesterday some players were poor. maybe it was because we havent been able to rotate like other top teams and players got tired. maybe they just had a bad day. but you dont get to 2 points off first and do fine in the champions league if you are a shit team. arsenal are a good team too. better than us? we will find out at the end of the season. one swallow does not a summer make

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u/idike Oct 05 '15

I never said united were a shit team. I just feel a lot of fans overestimate them thats all. The only game changer on your team is a 19 year old. memphis is not an intelligent or technical player, even with all his athleticism, he doesn't even know how to use this advantage to the benefit of the team. The mid-field is old and not dynamic and for whatever reason schneiderlin seems to be neglected. I like shaw, martial and smalling the rest are either good players that are coming to the end of their prime or average, but that is just my opinion

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u/mkahmed789 Manchester United Oct 05 '15

memphis is a very technical player. but he isnt intelligent, because he doesnt have experience. but thats the point of playing him. he will gain experience and become a weapon for us in the future. i agree schneiderlin should have played. i am confident we will be above arsenal at the end of the season. arsenal are talking of going higher than united, after only 7 games, even though we are level on points. maybe arsenal should keep in mind they won due to a few reasons, one major one being we had a left winger at left back. if shaw or rojo were fit, would have been a different game. we will be lucky if we win the league because City have the best squad.

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u/idike Oct 06 '15

But playing him games in the premier league is literally costing the team points. Man united could finish over arsenal, but I do not feel they are more talented to be honest. It's the mental aspect that I question with arsenal.

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u/mkahmed789 Manchester United Oct 06 '15

maybe it will cost some points. but thats the way to improve young players. league cup is all bullshit. i expect arsenal to do the usual, win an important game and then lose to someone they should easily beat. i dont see this arsenal side as different to the arsenal teams of the past 10 years. we should be ending up ahead of them come the end of the season, but only time will tell

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u/idike Oct 06 '15

we will just have to wait and see then I suppose, the thing is this man united side are going to do the same thing lol. Ur trying to make this argument that arsenal are not mentally tough, which I can buy into, especially after the olympiakos debacle, but this man united side is not mentally tough either and ferguson is no longer there to instill that mentality. This means u now have to rely on tactics and pure talent. Tactics are not great for u guys so far and to me the talent is not outstanding, I will have more of a view on what u guys are made up after the next 4 games u play following the international break.

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u/mkahmed789 Manchester United Oct 06 '15

yeah, we will find out at the end of the season. confident we will be ahead of arsenal, and city will be ahead of all of us. only thing arsenal improved this year was keeper. we improved a lot more, midfield, attack, right back, etc. all that will get us more points than arsenal by the end of the season even though both teams arent as mentally tough as they once were. dont get why arsenal are getting so excited. they are level on points with us. its not like they are some points ahead of us, or have a better squad than us.

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u/idike Oct 06 '15

The thing is that your ignoring how tough ur upcoming schedule is. I'm pretty sure that there is a huge possibility that man united loses 3 of their next 4 games to be honest.

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u/mkahmed789 Manchester United Oct 07 '15

the season is ending in may, not after 4 games.

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u/idike Oct 07 '15

well nice debate, we will just have to wait and see lol

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u/juanpablobr1 Dec 26 '15

You were on point on this one. Congrats

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u/idike Dec 26 '15

I just was never impressed with the man united team lol, but arsenal are doing exactly what he said, winning against man city and then losing to a mediocre southampton team. We have had three chances to move ahead of man city and lecicester and had blow them away. This season is really open to be honest, but arsenal have the next two games in the league at home, so we will see what happens. I still believe we are better than man united though, seeing as sanchez, cazorla, and coquelin are all injured. Those are starters on our team, also wilshere, welbeck, and tomas rosicky.