Manchester United and its hot goal monster Marcus Rashford couldn’t put a stop to the Premier League’s top team. Eddie Nketiah sealed a 3–2 home win for Arsenal at the end of the match.
On Sunday Eddie Nketiah with his two goals, he lifted Arsenal to a 3–2 victory over Manchester United, and the gap with Manchester City, who is second in the league, remained at five points. Arsenal will meet twice more against City, who have played one match more, so the championship hunt remains tight in this regard as well.
– The win can’t really get any better than this. The way we won today makes winning really tasty, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta glowed with a last-minute winning goal.
The top match of the Premier League between Arsenal and Manchester United did not leave football fans cold. The league leader’s only league loss had come specifically to United in September.
United arrived at the Emirates Stadium in high spirits, because Erik ten Hag the proteges had won seven of their previous eight games. Arsenal, on the other hand, had not conceded a single goal in their own net this year.
Despite Arsenal’s possession, Manchester United started scoring goals in the 17th minute of the match. Bruno Fernandes input Marcus Rashford was able to advance by cannonballing the ball with a heavy and accurate long shot from outside the penalty area directly into the bottom corner. Arsenal lost the ball twice in their own half before hitting back. The handsome goal was a continuation of Rashford’s fiery period. He has now finished nine times in the last nine matches.
The supporters of the London club were able to tear through the 1-1 equalizer just seven minutes later. Granit Xhaka centered the tool on the left side, and Eddie Nketiah ran into the situation at the right time, heading the ball with power to the back post. No other goals were seen in the fast-paced first half.
United froze, Arsenal’s will to win decided
If Rashford’s goal was a great individual performance and came out of nowhere in the opening half, then he did the same trick in the 53rd minute Bukayo Saka. Arsenal’s top man moved far outside the penalty area laterally, and when United’s Christian Eriksen gave too much space, Saka decided to bomb the device with a twist and power into the back corner worth a goal.
However, the Gunners’ 2-1 lead lasted only six minutes when United equalized from a corner kick. Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale gracefully punched the ball straight to United’s keeper For Lisandro Martinezwho made it 2-2 from close range.
At the end of the match, Arsenal was looking for a winning goal clearly more than the other teams and it was deservedly rewarded with extra points. Eddie Nketiah, who became a hero with two goals, first missed the top spot but made up for his mistake by steering by Martin Odegaard from the cross in the 90th minute of the 3–2 winning goal.
– Everyone saw how much we wanted this victory both for ourselves and for the fans. We pressed on all the time and fortunately we were able to score the decisive goal, sighed Nketiah to the BBC.
Manchester United defender Luke Shaw conceded the superiority of the opponent.
– In the second half, we deserved it (the loss). We were just too passive and let Arsenal completely control the game. Gotta give them kudos for what they’ve done this season. “Arsenal deserves to be at the top of the league with that kind of play,” said Shaw to the BBC.
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