In a fixture for the ages, it finished 2-2. The draw doesn’t reflect the action as both Manchester United and Arsenal pushed for the win. How did Twitter react?
Unai Emery took his men on a trip to face Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford. Both Manchester United and Arsenal shared the points, as they both scored two goals apiece. There was plenty to talk about, from Marouane Fellaini’s hair-pulling antics to Alexandre Lacazette headbutting the ball out of the goalkeeper’s hands.
Arsenal opened the scoring in the first half via a Shkodran Mustafi freak goal. He headed the ball into the ground but it ended up testing David de Gea to a point where he couldn’t save it. The goal-line technology was called into action and a vibration of Andre Marriner’s watch gifted Arsenal the goal.
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Not long after, Anthony Martial fired home following defensive calamities from the Gunners. He was the birthday boy and he got the goal to take home with him, despite being substituted off early in place of Romelu Lukaku.
It took a while for the second half to see any action, however, Arsenal capitalised first. Lacazette and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the two substitutes, burst forward on the counter and it ended up being a Marcos Rojo own-goal. The decision was harsh on Lacazette but every goal counts.
Within a mere 80 seconds, the ball was in the other net, with Jesse Lingard scoring his first United goal for some time. He made the most of a poor back pass by Sead Kolasinac and he lifted the spirits of the United faithful.
The game pretty much called to a halt there. Lacazette did get a goal which was unfortunately ruled out. He headed the ball from de Gea’s lone hand before tapping home. Doing that 10 years ago would have counted, Alexandre! Still, you can’t win them all.
So in the end, Arsenal maintained their now-20 game unbeaten run. On the other hand, Manchester United got a point when they needed a win. Both teams are probably disappointed with the result, but how did the fans react?
The most iconic images in sport.
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) December 5, 2018
The All Blacks Haka.
The Ali shuffle.
Beckham stood over a free-kick.
Mourinho pointing to Fellaini, and then pointing to the box, when there's five minutes left on the clock.
It was bound to happen, let’s be honest.
Martial dived
— JB™️ (@gunnerpunner) December 5, 2018
Their goal was offside
Rojo should’ve been sent off for the right tackle on Auba
Rojo should’ve been sent off for the foul on Lacazette
Rojo was the one who played the long ball for their second
Lacazette scored a fair goal that the ref disallowed for no reason
Arsenal fans feel like they were given unfair treatment by Andre Marriner.
As soon as Martial left the pitch and Lukaku came on yesterday the person sitting bedside me stood up and left, he said he doesn't want to watch rubbish 😂😂😂😂
— UNCLE MIKE (@Smokeybenz) December 6, 2018
Romelu Lukaku is not the guy to bring on when you’re chasing a win.
Such a shame if that’s a long term injury for Rob Holding, who was having his best spell of games yet and establishing himself as a regular.
— Mattias Karén (@MattiasKaren) December 5, 2018
Seeing Rob Holding stretchered off was heartbreaking for the Arsenal faithful.
Funny how we played probably our best football without Pogba and Lukaku. #MUFC
— (0, eval)('yats') (@cozzbie) December 6, 2018
A positive for United fans is that they can thrive without their two stars.