-- Each of the last two Premier League meetings at Old Trafford were won by the home side, with
United winning last season's corresponding fixture 3 - 2 − Steven Gerrard struck twice for Liverpool, who were 2 - 0 down at the time, but Dimitar Berbatov was the hero for United as the Bulgarian struck a match - winning hat - trick.
After a cracking away win in the fourth round of the FA cup at the weekend, Arsenal are still in with a chance of retaking the crown of most successful club in the famous old competition's history, which the recent two Wembley victories over Hull City and Aston Villa had given us until Man
United won it last season.
I'm glad many of you are now likening the win to
the United win last season at Emirates... you know what we used?
Not exact matches
And yet,
United don't seem to be a great deal better than when he took over, unless you really buy that
last season's Community Shield, EFL Cup and Europa League
wins really counted as a «treble»?
Assuming we don't sign a striker and CB, The answer is NO
Last season was our best chance because
United, city, Chelsea were in arying levels of disaray Reasons why we didn't
win: 1.
IBRAHIMOVIC IN THE STANDS Top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic earned a fifth yellow card of the
season in
United's 3 - 1
win at Swansea
last time out and that means the Swede will miss Saturday's match as he serves a one - match ban.
The next two games will show us how Arsenal are going to react to
last week's defeat, a
win against QPR, and even a draw away to
United in the Cup would set us up for a fine end to the domestic
season.
Your
last paragraph implies that Man
United, Chelsea, Man City, Leicester, and even Tottenham will not
win the league this
season because their CBs are no better than Kos, Per, and Gab.
Last summer he was sold on to Newcastle United and played 32 times as the Magpies won the Championship last sea
Last summer he was sold on to Newcastle
United and played 32 times as the Magpies
won the Championship
last sea
last season.
And the fact that they got the
win without Di Maria or the new signing Schweinsteiger, with Louis van Gaal still expected to spend a lot of cash before the transfer window shuts, prompted Enrique to suggest in an ESPN report that
United could do what his team achieved
last season and bounce back from a disappointing year to claim the treble.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, our new signing that
won the Europa League with Man
United last season, agrees with that sentiment.
While Mourinho's side claimed bragging rights
last week with a surprise
win of their own at the Etihad Stadium, it's clear
United just haven't been consistent enough for so much of this
season.
Last year was Jose Mourinho's first
season at Man
United and he started by
winning the League Cup, but when he saw the Top Four teams pulling away from the Red Devils in the League he put all his energy and resources into
winning the Europa League as well to get a wild card entry into the Champions League.
FACT: In just one
season at
United, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
won more trophies than Liverpool have in the
last TEN years?
Man
United had a reasonably easy run to
win the Europa League
last season, beating teams like St - Étienne, Rostov, Anderlecht and Celta Vigo before beating Ajax in the Final, but Arsene wenger believes that this is the toughest group of teams he has seen in the
last 16 of this years version.
You only have to look at Chelsea languishing in 13th place after
winning the league
last season, Liverpool losing 3 - 0 at home to West Ham after spending over 50 million pounds on Benteke and Firmino and
United losing to Swansea for you to realize that strikers won't decide who
wins the league.
The Potters have yet to
win in the league this
season, while it's been 40 years since they defeated
United on the road as their rivals have
won 15 of their
last 16 home league meetings in all competitions.
«In the Carabao Cup, after
winning last season, we lost in the quarter - final but we lost like Manchester
United likes to lose — with dignity, with fair play, with participation in the happiness of a giant killer,» he is quoted as saying by The Sun, who make a direct correlation between Mourinho's comments and City.
He scored eleven goals as he helped Manchester
United win the League Cup and the Europa League
last season.
Spurs are unbeaten in their
last five games with
United and the London club have
won at Old Trafford in each of the past two
seasons.
After years of failing to live up to its favorites tag in League One,
United finally
won the league
last season, securing promotion to the Championship.
The
last three games between these sides have been
won by
United, including
last season's clash at Anfield.
United aren't in the position they were
last season, looking up at the top four, but they mustn't fall into the trap of thinking they're even remotely close to
winning titles again.
United, meanwhile, have not
won the Champions League since 2007/08 but will hope the appointment of Mourinho
last season is the right one to get them back on track at the top level in Europe.
If spurs lose Sunday and arsenal
win, wenger will say that 2nd and finishing above man city, Chelsea, man
United, Liverpool and spurs is an improvement on
last seasons 3Rd place.
Is it a coincidence that unlike
last season, this
season - in which we have had two CFs with different styles - we are
winning the big away games, with the two strikers capitalizing on their unique qualities (Giroud powerful header against city, Welbz pacy counter goal against
United) to score in both games?
Luiz was a key part of Chelsea's title -
winning squad
last season, but the Blues have not looked as convincing at the back lately, prompting Conte to make a big change for the visit of
United.
Rooney's next chance to get on the scorsheet will be at weekend as Newcastle
United are the visitors to Old Trafford and the 29 - year - old will be hoping for a repeat performance from the corresponding fixture
last season, where he bagged a brace in a 3 - 1
win.
The confidence has been growing in the Gunners camp and was significantly boosted by
last season's FA cup trophy
win and by beating Man City, Liverpool and Man
United already this
season and almost ending the big game bottlers tag.
Arsenal Could and SHOULLD have
won the EPL
last season, considering the way things turned out with Chelsea, Man
United and Man City.
Jones had an impressive
season with
United last campaign as he played 26 times for the Manchester outfit as they went on to
win the League Cup and the Europa League and thus securing Champions League qualification.
It was the 26 - year - old's first goals of the new
season and it will surely boost his confidence after he came in for criticism from a selection of Gunners supporters following his performance playing as a centre - forward in the 1 - 0
win over Newcastle
United last weekend.
Man
United may have
won at the Emirates
last season but they were extremely lucky not to lose, never mind
win.
It's been a long 10 years since Adebayor rolled the ball into
United's net for our
last victory at OT, although
last season we did manage to
win there in the FA cup.
Having
won away at Man City and Man
United this
season and with no heavy beatings, Arsenal have already moved on from the horrors of
last season, when we almost might as well not have bothered to turn up in the big away games.
Last season Man
United were not great either and we still could not manage a
win (loss and a draw).
Now if we actually go back to
last season, Arsenal played that pair in midfield against Man City and
won 2 - 0, against Man
United won 2 - 1 and tied 1 - 1, against Liverpool
won 4 - 1, against Chelsea tied 0 - 0 and
won 1 - 0.
Last season uniteds defence was that they had
won a trophy, charity shield.
I too also know that we look weak at the back but i also believe they have learnt from there mistakes
last season and have a stronger unity this
season going into the 3rd
season with the team wenger has put together without losing key players and adding real Quality and world class that i havent seen before because none of our history says we bought our trophies we
won them with all the unexpected beliefs and never bought into the society and modern game we seen before us not one of our legends were already labelled for they are today before they came to us The made a name for themselfs in our Jersey and build a foundation of what we represent today Before Arsene Wenger and with him We are a club that overachieve and under promise Everything we've done has be our very own unique way of doing it not the way other clubs are ahiceving i for one will not Follow the Man City's ambitions Chelseas Manchester
united or anyone elses
The
season before
last 14 15 we did better with the points than
last season even though we came second from
last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this
season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the
season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to
win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the
season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off
united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year
Why, the
last time Manchester
United won their opening three games of a league
season...
Arsenal have dropped out of the Champions League for the first time in 20 years, but Arsene Wenger is still adamant that he would rather that the club return to the Top Four to guarantee Champions League football next
season, rather than
win the Europa League, like Manchester
United did
last season.
Last season, they
won four and drew one against the rest of the top six, beating Arsenal, Manchester
United, Manchester City and champions Chelsea — and each time fairly convincingly.
Wenger enjoyed his first Premier League
win over Mourinho
last season as Arsenal beat
United 2 - 0 at the Emirates, and his side are currently on a 12 - game
winning streak at home.
Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester
United, who
won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a
last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six points between league leaders
United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the
season.
Victory at Old Trafford means
United have
won the
last three meetings between the two sides and Mata, who netted three times in the two fixtures
last season, hailed the importance of the latest
win against the Merseyside outfit:
The goal was Ronaldo's 37th La Liga strike of the
season and comes after a five goal haul against Granada
last weekend and the former Man
United man's 300th goal for Real Madrid, netted in their mid-week
win over Rayo Vallecano.
Mourinho only joined
United last season and enjoyed instant success with three trophy victories in his first year in charge, guiding the Red Devils to
wins in the Community Shield, EFL Cup and Europa League.
Mahrez
won Leicester City the Premier League on you are not sure on him we still need two to three more quality signings don't let your emotion Cloud your judgement even if we have Alexandre lacazette
last season we still would not make top four are
win the league Manchester
United bought Paul Pogba henrikh mkhitaryan Slaton Ibrahimovic on still didn't make top four what if we had bought them this up on coming
season we would be over the moon right so if we keep Sanchez we need two players if not three more players Riyad mahrez Thomas Lemar Jamaican Siri William Carvalho leon goretzka
Jose Mourinho has
won the FA Cup once, with Chelsea in 2006/07 but triumphed at Wembley
last season when
United beat Southampton 3 - 2 to lift the EFL Cup.