Manchester United V Arsenal: Premier League – Live

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Hello, hullo and invited to unrecorded sum of Manchester United v Arsenal astatine Old Trafford. Broadly, location are 2 ways to position this game:

1. It’s nan crippled of nan weekend, a humdinger betwixt 2 of English football’s Holy Trinity. A cleanable measurement to commencement nan season!

2. It’s 15th v 2nd based connected past season’s convention table. Why’s everyone getting truthful excited?

We’re successful campy 1. The thought of an unenticing lucifer betwixt Manchester United and Arsenal astatine immoderate shape of nan play does not compute. And this isn’t immoderate stage: it’s nan opening weekend, a model successful clip erstwhile everything is dream and dream is everything.

Right now Benjamin Sesko, Viktor Gyokeres, Bryan Mbuemo, Martin Zubimendi and each nan different caller signings beryllium solely successful nan imagination of supporter, silhouettes of shot perfection who will return United and Arsenal to nan adjacent level.

The past clip these 2 met connected nan opening play was 36 years agone – Michael Knighton, Neil Webb and each that – truthful this is benignant of a large deal. That 1989 match, won 4-1 by a United broadside who soon fell into a relegation battle, is simply a reminder that we shouldn’t get carried distant pinch today’s result.

That’s precisely what we’ll beryllium doing, isn’t it.

Kick disconnected 4.30pm.