Chapter 667: Too Heavy a Hand

Manchester United's opponent in the 15th round of the league is Arsenal, which is the first hurdle for Manchester United to challenge AC Milan's 58-game unbeaten record in the top five European leagues.

As the former Premier League unbeaten record holder, although Manchester United has now left Arsenal's original 49-game unbeaten record far behind, for the sake of past glory, Arsenal will definitely fight hard with Manchester United in the game.

You know, Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten streak ended at the hands of Manchester United.

After the end of last season, Wenger left Arsenal, where he had coached for 22 years, and the Gunners entered the post-Wenger era.

In order to compete with Manchester United and other Premier League giants, Arsenal not only spent more than 7000 million pounds on reinforcements, but also invited the famous coach Emery, naturally hoping to make a difference in the Premier League.

After the start of the new season, Arsenal only ranked fifth in the Premier League and seemed to be performing poorly, but this was not because Arsenal played too badly, but because their competitors performed too well.

英超前14轮，阿森纳的战绩是9胜3平2负，拿到了30个积分，场均可以拿到2.14分。

With such a scoring rate, if it were in any other league, the team would be ranked in the top two of the standings.

Moreover, Arsenal lost two games, one to Manchester City and the other to Chelsea. In the matches against the other two teams of the big six, Arsenal drew with Liverpool and defeated Tottenham, which was not a bad performance.

Especially in the last round, Arsenal was trailing 1:2 at halftime, but they scored three goals in the second half and won 4:2, which was a satisfying victory.

This gave Emery great confidence. In an interview, he said that no team had been able to beat Manchester United in the past 54 Premier League games, which was a shame for the Premier League.

The intention to stop Manchester United could not be more obvious.

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On December 12th, Manchester, Old Trafford, Manchester United will face Arsenal at home.

This match attracted much attention because of the ambitious remarks made by Arsenal head coach Emery before the game. Everyone wanted to see whether this Spanish coach, known as the "King of the Europa League", could really lead Arsenal to break Manchester United's unbeaten streak.

Before the game, the head coaches of both teams shook hands.

Mourinho shook Emery's hand and said with a sincere expression and tone: "Oh, Mr. Emery, I want to thank you."

Thank me? Is this guy crazy?

"The team has remained unbeaten, and I am worried that the players are getting a little cocky." Mourinho shook his head and said, "In every game, I have to think hard to say something to encourage everyone not to be too proud."

What do you mean?

"Thank you, there is no need to mobilize for this game." Mourinho shook Emery's hands with both hands and thanked him very sincerely, "Thank you so much, let's look forward to a wonderful game together."

Emery was a little confused. Seeing Mourinho let go of his hand and turned away without hesitation, he suddenly felt something was not right.

I just wanted to show off, but why does it seem like the situation has gotten so bad?

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For such a heavyweight match, the Premier League broadcaster naturally arranged the most famous commentary duo to comment on the match, namely the two famous commentators Andy Gray and Martin Taylor.

"Objectively speaking, Arsenal still has some confidence to stop Manchester United," said Andy Gray. "After all, they just beat their arch-rivals Tottenham in the North London derby four days ago."

"Maybe Arsenal can really break Manchester United's unbeaten streak and create a small miracle?" said commentators from other countries.

In short, everyone is looking forward to it.

Ferguson led Manchester United to dominate the Premier League for 21 years. He finally left, giving other teams a chance to turn things around. But then Mourinho came to Old Trafford, and Manchester United has dominated the Premier League for two consecutive years, leaving other teams feeling deeply desperate.

Manchester United has suffered in the Premier League for a long time!

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The game started.

Manchester United answered everyone's questions with a goal in the ninth minute of the game.

"Bruno Fernandes--!!!" the commentator shouted loudly.

In the stands of Old Trafford, Manchester United fans jumped up from their seats, raised their arms and cheered to celebrate the goal.

"Nice shot! Harry Kane assisted Bruno to score!"

"A wonderful long shot! The Portuguese broke the deadlock for Manchester United early!"

"Emery's remarks before the game were very powerful, but facing the long-range shot from the World Footballer of the Year, perhaps he should understand that one should not eat carelessly and should not speak carelessly," commentator Zhan Jun shouted happily.

After scoring the goal, Bruno ran to the sidelines and stretched out his right hand. Mourinho laughed and also stretched out his hand, and the two of them high-fived.

The camera immediately turned to the visiting team's coaching bench, and Emery's face was a little gloomy.

Rashford made a cross from the wing, and Harry Kane held off the defender and knocked the ball back. Bruno followed up and shot the ball, which was like a cannonball, hitting the dead corner of the goal.

Arsenal goalkeeper Leno just stretched out his hand subconsciously and had no way to stop the shot.

The cheers at Old Trafford were deafening.

Bruno's goal opened the door to victory for Manchester United. His world-class shot not only boosted Manchester United's morale, but also made the opponents Arsenal players realize a reality: they want to be dragon-slaying heroes and find a sense of existence in Manchester United, but this is a dream!

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Eleven minutes later, in the 20th minute of the game, Mbappe broke through on the right and passed the ball diagonally in front of the goal. Harry Kane knocked the ball with his right foot, avoiding the interception of the Arsenal defender and volleyed it from a small angle.

2: 0!

It only took Manchester United 20 minutes to take a two-goal lead over Arsenal.

After scoring the goal, Harry Kane also imitated Bruno. He laughed and ran to the sidelines to high-five Mourinho.

This is tantamount to the second slap in the face of Arsenal.

However, Arsenal is not a weak team that can do whatever others want. They are still very combative.

In the 26th minute, Arsenal pulled one back. Torreira took a corner kick from the left, Mustafi got rid of Van Dijk who was marking him in the penalty area, and headed the ball. De Gea held the ball with both hands, but the ball was still flying towards the goal. Although Kante, who was standing in the corner of the goal, cleared the ball, the referee judged the goal valid after being reminded by the goal-line technology.

From the slow motion replay, the ball had clearly crossed Manchester United's goal line.

This goal gave Arsenal hope, but it also stimulated the Manchester United players on the field.

In the 30th minute, Bruno took a direct free kick from 30 yards in front of the penalty area. Leno missed the ball, and Mbappe followed up with a cross from the right. Rashford in front of the goal scored and changed the score to 3:1.

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Manchester United players were celebrating enthusiastically, while Arsenal's players were a little demoralized.

In fact, it is very interesting that before the game, Arsenal head coach Emery came out to speak, but none of the Arsenal players came out to echo their coach's words.

"Damn it! We conceded two goals already? And judging from the situation, Manchester United won't let us off easily."

Arsenal players were muttering and complaining.

Yes, they do not support head coach Emery's words and actions before the game.

Of course, no one particularly objected at the beginning and no one took it too seriously.

But at this moment, facing Manchester United with their mouths wide open, Arsenal players were scared and started to bring up old issues with the head coach.

We at Arsenal don't have the strength to compete for the championship now. We just need to be careful and fight for a place in the Champions League. Is it necessary to provoke the giant Manchester United?

Yes, maybe some people were proud and happy about what Emery said before the game about their comeback victory over Tottenham in the North London derby, but now they are just complaining.

This kind of complaint and fear began to spread among Arsenal's players. So in the subsequent games, Arsenal's players seemed to have no fighting spirit.

When they thought that they were facing an angry and invincible army that was going to torture them to death, they felt a little scared.

The two teams have met six times in the past two seasons. Except for the 6th round of the 2016-2017 Premier League, when Manchester United had almost secured the league title and was somewhat absent-minded, allowing Arsenal to win, Arsenal lost the other five games, including big wins of 36:5 and 5:1.

It can be said that Arsenal has suffered psychological trauma when facing Manchester United.

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The game then entered Manchester United's rhythm, but they did not continue to score in the first half.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United's offensive did not slow down.

In the 4th minute, Bruno took a free kick and Maguire scored with a header, extending the score to 1:.

Mourinho also started to make substitutions, replacing three starters Harry Kane, Mbappe and Gundogan in one go, and replaced them with McTominay, Mahrez and Mata.

The victory is already decided, it's time to give the main players some rest time.

In the camera, Arsenal head coach Emery sat in his seat with an expressionless face.

Compared to losing, Mourinho's behavior of using Arsenal to train players and gain experience is a greater humiliation.

In the 76th minute, Bruno's direct free kick was saved by the goalkeeper. Harry Kane turned half way and passed the ball, which was again cleared by the Arsenal defender. However, facing Mahrez's sliding shot, Arsenal had no choice.

5: 1!

Manchester United players took to the sidelines for the fifth time to high-five their head coach Mourinho.

Ten minutes later, Bruno scored twice, changing the score to 6:1.

In the injury time, Cancelo made a cross from the bottom and assisted McTominay to score a header in front of the goal, locking the score at 7:1!

Old Trafford was already in a state of explosion.

In the commentary booth, the commentator couldn't bear it anymore, and someone kept shouting "Poor Arsenal, poor Emery."

In the end, the score was fixed at 7:1. Arsenal suffered one of the most painful defeats in their history against Manchester United, which was not much different from the previous 8:2.

After the game, Mourinho was very polite and took the initiative to find Emery and shake hands with him.

He enthusiastically grabbed Emery's hands: I'm so sorry, I wanted to criticize these guys, I'm sorry, I was too harsh.

Emery: ...