Beating Arsenal is always an enjoyable experience, whether in the league or the Cup. The long running rivalry between Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger has lead to fiery clashes, whereby usually one or both managers have something to say about the other side come the final whistle.
Sir Alex Ferguson was left to complain about the disgracefully dirty behaviour of some of the Arsenal players, whilst Wenger could only look to his team being embarrassed by United.
Following criticism that United were just a one man team, in reference to Ronaldo, his omission from the squad, with Nani in his place, certainly raised a few eyebrows. However, Nani proved Fergie was right to put his faith in him, as he ran the Arsenal defence ragged for ninety minutes.
United had the game wrapped up at half time, leading Wenger’s men 3-0, but any doubt over the eventual winners was eradicated when Eboue attempted to castrate Patrice Evra early in the second half.
At 4-0, United really started to switch on the skill, showing Arsenal’s defeated players was beautiful football was all about. Flicks and fancy footwork from our star players seemed to frustrate Arsenal all the more. When Nani picked up the ball, playing keepy uppy with his feet, thighs and head, Arsenal were left to react angrily, kicking out at the talented Portuguese youngster.
After the match, Wenger tried to justify his players’ reaction to Nani, saying “You don’t want to be teased or humiliated.” 4-0 at Old Trafford and Nani is getting the blame for Arsenal’s humiliation? He should point the finger at his spineless team, as no one is more to blame than themselves for the humiliation Arsenal players and fans will be feeling this morning.
United were by far the better team, I am an Arsenal Fanatic and i was ashemed of my teams performance and Eboue’s Reckless and Stupid challenge.
However…The season is still nowhere near over and if Arsenal win the league or Champions League then Wenger will be vindicated in his decisions.
Remember, over the last few years Fergie has spent Millions and i mean Millions putting his squad together(Yes i wish Arsene would spend a little too)…and if Man U dont win the League or Champions League…the season would have been another Failure…What Wenger does with the money he has is incredible!!!!!
Well played to Manchester Yesterday….they deserved to win…but remember yesterday they woin no trophies, no points and Arsenal are still TOP of the League….
Good Luck 2 All.
LOL
Pezzer
Just to say that I am delighted with the way Arsenal fans have accepted defeat in the gracious manner they have. I visited many websites today, as we all do when we are passionate about our team, and it is a pleasure to read the honest comments by the Arsenal fans. They should be applauded for that and it makes a big change from the bitter and self deluding comments we see from some of our other rivals, eg. the DIPPERS!
Thank you for talking some sense Pezzer, your manager’s interviews should really have had the same tone, instead of blaming Nani and the pitch, which, surprisingly, was the same for both sides.
I was a little disappointed in Fergie not really backing Nani up, saying he shouldn’t have done that.
On more positive notes, Anderson confirmed what we all knew yesterday, that he is simply unbelievable, and should be starting, Nani justified his price tag and proved he should really be ahead of Giggs- 1 goal, 2 assists, he is remarkably effective, aside from the skills. And Fletcher, well, he clearly is just desperate to play, and showed his hunger yesterday. Hopefully this will send out messages to players like Ronaldo and Giggs who sometimes play with little effort, showing them that we can replace them.
If you are going to gloat and showboat like that, then you can expect someone to put you in your place. Arsenal have plenty of players who are just as skilled as Nani. It wasn’t our day and I suspect we already had our site set on Milan. You are a bit hypocritical in your comments. United/Arsenal matches are always physical and you conveniently overlook a lot of harsh challenges by Fletcher that could have easily been bookings. But then at Old Trafford you seldom see impartial officiating ever.
When Man U last played at the Emirates you had Fergie bleating about his mistreatment by our fans, however, you didn’t hear any similaar complaints from AW when they were singing that classless song about him being a pedophile yesterday. Same old Man U, always hippocritical…one set of rules/standards for you and another for everyone else.
That peado faggot should shut the f*** up. Simple as. I hope the FA look at Gallas n get him suspended. I hate those gunners, floppy wakers the bunch of them. Thot nani was unreal….Put it this way if Ronaldinho…or even ronaldo had done the same l.night there would be no issue/debate. UP THE REDS
IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW NANI REACTS WHEN DEFENDERS DOUBLE UP OR PLAYS CLOSER TO HIM .
WILL HE HAVE THE SAME IMPACT?
I THINK THAT NANI AND RONALDO SHOULD PLAY TOGETHER BECAUSE THE OPPOSING TEAM WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO USE 5 PLAYERS TO REDUCE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS.
OH YES FOR ONCE CAN TEAMS LIKE BOLTON WEST HAM PLEASE RAISE THEIR GAMES AGAINST ARSENAL AS THEY DO V/S MAN UTD
In regards to the Mr. T impersonator’s comments about us being overrated.. HAH! That’s why you shouldn’t run your mouth off like that, Billy! (Shave your head, you tool)
Nani, you are now, officially a United player. Quality performance, and I don’t blame you for taking the piss out of Les Arse. Well done, son.
I just hope Fabregas doesn’t go to the police in regards to the raping that Anderson gave him.
I’m lookin’ forward to Chel$ki in the next round, and to the return of Les Arse to the Theater of Ownage in April.
I have burned the match to a DVD, which will be classified as an 18, due to scenes of a grpahic nature.
Good weekend, eh!
We were really awful yesterday, but our injury situation is rather ridiculous and unlike man u we dont have £17million reserve players. Still thats no excuse for our inept and passionless performance, but consider that man u spent around 60mill in the summer while we made a profit on transfers so man u should be better equipped to challenge on 3 fronts.
When we win the premier league it will be a testament to Wenger’s genius in the transfer market. 5 POINTS!!!
As we always know, the ferguson to the press and the ferguson to the players is a different facet. I’m sure inside he was saying “well done nani, rub it in!”
Before you praise Nani too much for his tricks against Justin Hoyte and Armand Traore, don’t forget that he is yet to try it against Cashley Cole, Gael Clichy, Emmanuel Eboue and Bacary Sagna. I will say he is very good after he has met these guys.
We all know that Ronaldo can play all kinds of tricks against many a premiership fullback other than anyone of the above guys and both players are similar.
Yesterday Arsenal lost the game in the treatment room, not on the pitch. Guys, did you rake-up that field deliberately knowing that we have been hit by injuries and so will have to tread very carefulluy knowing that we have a Champions league game to play on Wednesday?
I hope this win over Arsenal can have a longer lasting affect than you’d probably expect from an Arsenal side that have learned to bounce back. If they continue to push on and like us yesterday, get over a bad result quickly their confidence will creep back.
Yesterday told us a few things, some being the fact that Arsenal still have a good few games away to bigger teams in the league, including us.
Also, Fletcher showed just why I mentioned in the Fletcher blog why I don’t want him to leave. He is not happy but understanding at being out for long periods but still comes into the squad and performs. His run down the line and cross to Rooney deserved a great goal, his heders weren’t too bad either.. he likes them, remember Chelsea at OT a couple of years back?
Anderson and Nani are showing their value more and more and Anderson proved yesterday that although all the talk about young midfielders centres around Fabregas, our boy Anderson out shone him again. Soon it won’t be just the united fans that know we have one of the best prospects in a very young player, who I hope will follow in the footsteps of Rooney and Ronaldo and the like to become a United star for a good few years.
Shame we didn’t get points from this, but the result against City is now gone and we can move on feeling our best, I look forward to our trip to France and the will be ‘just loving it’ when we play Newcastle on Saturday!!!
Arselicked.
You aren’t making excuses are you? Fabregas was playing wasn’t he? What about Hleb? Who was at the back for your boys? Gallas? Toure? Right.
Who started for United? Park, Fletcher, Nani, Anderson? Oh I see what you mean.
Both sides fielded weakend sides in comparsion with what is usually on offer. Nani was mostly doing his tricks against Gallas, your Captain so don’t start talking about how Arsenal lost in the dressing room. Nani is still young and new to this league, he has done pretty well I’d say. Also, Nani is similar to Ronaldo in the way that they both do ‘tricks’ and are both from Portugal. They definately do different types of tricks and dummies to get past players. Ronadlo does more work with the ball moving and Nani does his with the ball in one place, before losing a defending player and attacking.
Arsenal played a shocker yesterday and all credit to United for making them uncomfortable all throughout the game. United were also playing on the same pitch as Arsenal although you could be forgiven for not seeing Arsenal during the 90 minutes.
Arselicked I’d like to say, Move on mate, don’t stay bitter and don’t make excuses when your team play badly. It happens to us all. Adebayor was even rubbish at diving yesterday and what was that about the dirty Arsenal players fouling players off the ball and also trying to stop Evra producing kids.
you are a joke.
I am a Utd fan, and thoroughly enjoyed owning Arsenal…hats off to Anderson, Fletcher and Nani as well.
What bothered me is Rooney’s trick more than Nani’s … Rooney picked up a stupid yellow, He is an amazing player and his presence was undoubtedly felt, but that trick was stupid, instead he should have taken 1-2 of those extra chances and buried them past Lehman, best way of humiliating Arsenal than those tricks.
Nani’s trick was great…but we have to understand, when a great team like Arsenal is down by 4 goals and you do those tricks, you are asking to be hurt.
As for Anderson and Nani over Scholes and Giggs, in time I agree, but we have to understand, Scholes and Giggs have put in consistent performances for years. Nani is developing into a team player and Anderson is just plain awesome.
All in All, Arsenal was owned yesterday.
United were without Scholes, Giggs, Hargreaves, Ronaldo, Neville, Tevez etc. Arsenal fans are only showing themselves up by talking about missing players.
as soon as i saw the teamsheet, i predicted 3-0 to ManU. hoyte and traore are not ready for this step up [at 18 traore is allowed, time for hoyte at 23 to shape up or ship out, preferably both]
seeing united had this season’s 1st choice defence out, while we played toure who clearly is drained from the ANC just smacked of a squad decimated by injuries. a bench containing no fit players just underlined the point.
we played as badly as i’ve seen, sure the pitch didn’t help our style of football but that’s merely an aside – not the reason for the defeat.
we all know how the game went, and no arsenal player turned up. we scored one perfectly good goal, but the way the game was going, a repeat of the 6-1 would have been a just scoreline.
the only upside is the knowledge we just aren’t as bad as we looked, and at 5 points clear that’s surely obvious to all those crowing at how arsenal are finished.
gilberto had ANOTHER nightmare, the poor boy’s legs are gone, and it’s a shame to see, much like when scholes came on. 2 great players with very little left to give. the difference is anderson looks more than capable of stepping up, while our replacement had a tantrum and is now at portsmouth.
i’m a little shell shocked, a little impressed by the united tenacity [the games lost this season featured nobody playing nearly as well as last night] and disappointed in the likes of eboue, who time and time again lets the fans and his team mates down. adabayor needs to not make a meal of things, as although his foot was clearly trodden on, he went down like an early ronaldo, and there’s no place for that at arsenal.
congratulations to united yesterday, but for both there is a far more significant game to come this week, and a lot of games to play in the league.
i look forward to the league clash as i’m sure we’ll give you a much better game, on the way to picking up a long over due title
Arsenal wanted to lose before the game start like the one against Spurs in the Carling Cup.They have too many injuries and they don’t have enough players to replace the first team players.I’m sure Wenger plan that very well.He does not want to play the Carling Cup final in between the two games against AC Milan.If Arsenal won last night,MU is going to end up with nothing in this season. Wenger and Fergie are really good friends behind the media.
Where’s Billy?- hahahaha, had me rolling around mate, top post!!
As for the gunners, both here on this blog and elsewhere (Austingooner take note)- wtf is all that crap about deserving to get roughed up with regard to Nani showboating?? The boy ran rings around you, showed himself to be far more talented than you- react by trying to step up, not throwing your toys out of the pram!
And seriously- the 5 point lead excuse is wearing thin, it’s a saving grace maybe but you lost, were completely anihilated by your biggest rivals, that alone is the biggest talking point. You were outclassed all over the park, that 5 point lead has nothing to do with the showcase of football yesterday. Silly gooners.
BANG!!
Don’t be alarmed.
That’s just the Goons going out of another cup.
Tom F, the situation we are in is really bad my friend and i’m not making excuses. The 11 players that Wenger put on the field were the only players who were fit (save for Fabianski) accoridng to the Arsenal Website. Actually, looking at the team sheet i feel that 4 – 0 was a good result under the circumstances. So enjoy your victory.
What is worrying me is that if the injury situation doesn’t improve we might get another hammering on Wednesday, Sagna and Clichy really have to come back. I have seen man-U struggle when they lost Vidic and i believe Arsenal will always struggle if they are to play without their first choice fulbacks in Sagna and Clichy. I also believe that if Man-U was to lose their first choice fulbacks they will struggle. Incidentally 3 of the goals came from flanks and the Nani goal Traore is the one who was trying to recover the situation.
Anyway, it seems that you like to kick a man when he is down (Rooney’s yellow card and Nani’s trick on Hoyte) so enjoy.
you also believe that if manu were without their first choice fullbacks they will struggle. you mean like gary neville?