PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – 17/08/2025 (PHOTO – RICCARDO CALAFIORI CELEBRATES)

PREMIER LEAGUE – MANCHESTER UNITED VS ARSENAL – 17/08/2025

MANCHESTER UNITED MADE A WHOPPING 465 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY (HAD 62% POSSESSION), 3 CORNERS, AND 22 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, BUT JUST COULDN’T SEEM TO GET PAST ARSENAL’S DEFENCE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET YESTERDAY!

ARSENAL MADE 294 PASSES, WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 4 CORNERS, AND 9 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKING GOAL FROM RICCARDO CALAFIORI AT 13 MINS. (BELOW)

INTO THE MATCH. AND AS THIS REMAINED THE ONLY GOAL DURING THE 90 MINS., THE GAME ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO ARSENAL!

MANCHESTER UNITED BOSS RUBEN AMORIM SPOKE AFTER THE MATCH:-

“WE DESERVED MORE AND WE WERE THE BETTER TEAM, THAT IS CLEAR, BUT IN THE END WE LOST. WE NEED TO WORK ON THE THINGS WE NEED TO IMPROVE. WE NEED TO DEFEND SET PIECES. WE DID A LOT OF THINGS RIGHT BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS, WITHOUT SEEING THE VIDEO THAT WE NEED TO WORK ON. I AM REALLY PROUD OF MY PLAYERS!”

ON CUNHA AND MBEUMO DEBUTS, HE SAID “EVERYBODY CAN UNDERSTAND THEY ARE VERY GOOD PLAYERS FOR THAT POSITION. IT DIDN’T NEED A LOT OF WORK TO FEEL THAT IS THEIR POSITION.”

ARSENAL BOSS MIKEL ARTETA SPOKE AFTER THE MATCH, EXPRESSING HIS HAPPINESS WITH HIS SIDE’S RESILIANCE AND WILL TO WIN, AND STATED THAT HE WAS ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH VIKTOR GYOKERES’ DEBUT PERFORMANCE.

BY AMANDA WATERS