19:36
Last word tonight goes to Lou Roper: “Mr Morgan, predictably, seems not to have checked the Bundesliga table lately,” he writes. Zing!
19:32
That’s it from me for tonight. Thanks ever so much for your time, your tweets and your emails. It was an entertaining game, bnut Arsenal
fans won’t be feeling too upbeat this evening. I’ll be able to gauge
the mood on the Tube home, once I leave my Kings Cross bunker and wander
into yonder inky black north London night. Enjoy what’s left of your
weekend.
Full-time: Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeeeep! It’s all over at the
Emirates. Despite conceding a late goal, Louis van Gaal’s side hang on
to bag all three points and go ahead of Arsenal in the table and into
the top four. Arsenal drop to eighth, having got off to their worst
start in 32 years. They’re 11 points worse off than they were at the
same time last season.
Manchester United weathered an early storm and held on largely thanks to their goalkeeper. It is to their immense credit that they managed to score two goals at a time when they’d had only one shot on target. “We rode our luck at times,” says Wayne Rooney. “We hit them on the break where we knew they were vulnerable.”
Manchester United weathered an early storm and held on largely thanks to their goalkeeper. It is to their immense credit that they managed to score two goals at a time when they’d had only one shot on target. “We rode our luck at times,” says Wayne Rooney. “We hit them on the break where we knew they were vulnerable.”
Updated
90+7 min: There’s a mini-rumpus followed by lots of
finger-pointing after a foul by Olivier Giroud on Angel Di Maria. I’m
not too sure exactly what happened, which I’m prepared to concede
probably isn’t what you want to read in an online commentary, but Ryan
Wilson and the Frenchman both get booked.
Updated
GOAL! Arsenal 1-2 Man Utd (Giroud 90+5)
Olivier Giroud grabs a lifeline, shooting past David De Gea with a surface-to-air screamer from about 15 yards at the near post. The Manchester United goalkeeper got a hand to the ball, but couldn’t prevent it from going in. He probably shouldn’t have been beaten at his near post like that, but it was a great effort.
19:22
90+4 min: A let-off for Arsenal, who pile their
entire team apart from the goalkeeper forward for a corner, only to see
the ball played to Angel Di Maria halfway inside the Manchester United
half. He sprints off towards the Arsenal goal with the ball at his feet a
la Rooney, only to dink the ball over Martinez and .. wide. 90+2 min: The fourth official holds up his board, recommending eight minutes of added time. Eight!
90 min: The cameras cut to a couple of Arsenal fans,
who look very disillusioned with life. I’ll be having a couple of pints
with a Gooner later and am looking forward to it immensely. He’ll sound
so disappointed and angry.
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