Arsenal vs Manchester United 1–2

Danny Wel­beck

Manchester United man­aged to edge out old foes Arsenal 2–1 at the Emir­ates Sta­dium on Sunday thanks to a goal each from Ant­o­nio Valen­cia and Danny Wel­beck. Des­pite col­lect­ing a well deserved three points in the encounter with Arsene Wenger´s strug­gling side yes­ter­day, Sir Alex Ferguson´s men are still stuck in second place.

The North Lon­don­ers, who came into this game on the back of two suc­cess­ive Premier League defeats against Ful­ham and Swansea City respect­ively, struggled for long peri­ods against a very well organ­ised Manchester United team on Sunday. Unfor­tu­nately for the vis­it­ing side, how­ever, Phil Jones injured his ankle just six­teen minutes into the first period and the Eng­land inter­na­tional was sub­sti­tuted by fel­low defender Rafael da Silva. The Reds nev­er­the­less began to gain more pos­ses­sion of the ball as the game pro­gressed and they were rewar­ded when the ever present Ant­o­nio Valen­cia headed home a bril­liant cross ball from mid­field orches­trator Ryan Giggs in first half stop­page time. In the 71st minute of the hard fought con­test, pro­lific goal plun­derer Robin van Per­sie even­tu­ally equal­ised for The Gun­ners with an aston­ish­ing shot through the legs of North­ern Ire­land inter­na­tional defender Jonny Evans and behind a com­pletely help­less Anders Linde­gaard in the Manchester United goal. Then with a mere nine minutes remain­ing of the thrill­ing encounter, rocket heeled flank­man Ant­o­nio Valen­cia man­aged to find the ever dan­ger­ous Danny Wel­beck who hammered home from some ten yards out to give Manchester United a nar­row 2–1 tri­umph over their long­time adversar­ies. Manchester United Team: Anders Linde­gaard, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Jonny Evans, Patrice Evra, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Michael Car­rick, Ryan Giggs, Luis Nani, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.

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