Manchester United 3-1 Arsenal: Antony scores on his debut to end Arsenal’s winning run

Manchester United’s £82m new boy Antony scored on his debut and Marcus Rashford acquired two as Erik ten Hag’s males ended Arsenal’s 100% begin to the season at Old Trafford.

Rashford claimed the help for that after which, after Bukayo Saka had levelled on the hour, the England striker profited from two medical United counter-attacks.

Bruno Fernandes was on the coronary heart of each, splitting the Arsenal defence for Rashford’s first, then sending Christian Eriksen clear because the Dane supplied the striker with a tap-in.

It was Rashford’s first Premier League double since December 2020, serving to elevate them to fifth within the desk.

Arsenal stay high. However, after their glorious begin to the season, supervisor Mikel Arteta shall be involved at how simply his facet have been opened up, though the Gunners did have a first-half Gabriel Martinelli purpose dominated out by VAR.

Antony the centre of consideration

Having failed to prise Antony out of Ajax firstly of the summer time and with the try to signal Ten Hag’s first selection switch window goal Frenkie de Jong stalling, United went again for the Brazilian within the wake of these terrible defeats to Brighton and Brentford firstly of the season.

Evidently, United weren’t in a robust bargaining place and the eventual value – the fourth highest sum ever paid by a Premier League membership – is accepted by most to be considerably inflated.

Yet it’s not possible to quantify financially how a constructive angle transfers to supporters.

It was clear, with his methods and flicks and teasing of defenders, the 24-year-old just isn’t brief on confidence.

Referee Paul Tierney, who performed a superb benefit for the Brazilian’s purpose after Bruno Fernandes had been fouled within the build-up, had to warn him about his celebration in entrance of the Arsenal followers with the ball up his shirt.

Not lengthy after that, Antony was upended from behind by Granit Xhaka. Had he linked with his speedy response, attempting to slice Xhaka down from behind, the response from Tierney would virtually actually have been greater than a ticking off.

The United followers beloved all of it. And whereas he lasted lower than an hour earlier than being changed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Antony was afforded a standing ovation as he left the sector.

However Antony’s time at Old Trafford works out, it is not doubtless to be uninteresting.

Disappointing outcome however Arsenal needn’t despair

Although they failed of their try to begin the season with six wins in a row for the primary time since 1947, it wasn’t a totally disastrous day for Arsenal.

In the present local weather, Martin Odegaard bundling Eriksen over to win possession and begin the transfer that led to Martinelli discovering the web was at all times going to see the purpose dominated out.

However, Arteta spent a very long time debating with fourth official Simon Hooper about Lisandro Martinez’s penalty field lunge on Saka, the place he did contact the person and never the ball.

Arsenal ought to have equalised when Gabriel Jesus acquired the higher of Martinez and arrange Odegaard however neither the Norwegian, nor Saka as Arsenal continued to press may discover the goal when properly positioned to do a lot better.

David de Gea acrobatically denied Martinelli as properly, so Arsenal did have the alternatives to make extra of their dominance of possession.

Odegaard and Xhaka have been glorious in midfield and it’s clear they’ve a extra constant purpose risk with Jesus of their facet.

However, instantly after this month’s worldwide break, the Gunners have a five-match sequence that features residence video games towards Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City. After these, way more shall be recognized about this Arsenal facet.

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