Cristiano Ronaldo reacted after the victory that his team achieved this Sunday at Old Trafford. The Portuguese striker, who was a substitute and added minutes in the second half, celebrated the victory against Premier League leaders Arsenal, who conceded their first defeat of the season.
“Well done, guys! And a very special thanks to our supporters! Come on, hell!” CR7 wrote through his social networks. The player of the Portuguese National Team, who was said to come out of the ‘Red Devils’ in this market, especially applauded the fans that accompanied them.
This was the victory of the ‘Red Devils’
Subdued during many moments of the game by Arsenal, Manchester United offered a demonstration of efficiency, counterattack and talent, personified in the passes of Bruno Fernandes, without whom nothing would have been possible, and in the two goals of Marcus Rashford with which overflowed and discussed the leader of the classification (3-1), whom he stopped after five consecutive wins and who frustrated a historic plenary session, in the premiere with a goal from Antony, the signing of 100 million euros from the Old Trafford club .
The team of Erik Ten Hag grows, grows and grows in recent days. Alarmed at first, his response is unanswerable. His four consecutive wins and consolidation against Arsenal put him just three points behind the top of the ‘Premier League’, capable of resisting, responding and hitting the opposite goal, especially when he suffered his most delicate moments in the game. encounter, when his rival submitted him with more visibility.
Because Arsenal manage a variety of imposing records this season in attack. Not so much in his defense. United only dominated him in the game at the beginning. Nothing more. He rushed it with a shot from Christian Eriksen or the shot from Jadon Sancho that Ramsdale cleared, finally available in goal, between the feeling that everything that happened led to a United goal, but he subdued it later, just when it least seemed to do so.
VAR also had an influence. In the 10th minute. With players like Gabriel Jesus, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka or Gabriel Martinelli, every counterattack launched by Arsenal is an invitation to a goal. It was the recovery of his Norwegian midfielder -later understood by the referee as a foul on Eriksen, which invalidated the goal-, Saka’s wonderful pass and Martinelli’s unchecking, running and definition, which surpassed Dalot and beat De Gea. The monitor revealed the slight infraction, which is part of the controversy.
A break for United. Also a warning. Arsenal are an uncontrollable team this season, who later locked up Ten Hag’s team for a while. But United also have resources to spare. It has more and more the appearance of a block and is endowed with unquestionable individualities, attracted by millionaire amounts that today, it seems, can only be paid in the ‘Premier League’, such as Antony, who uneven the match after half an hour with a pass from Marcus Rashford (1-0, m. 34).
Signed and incorporated on Thursday, from Ajax, directly to the eleven, as the choice of Ten Hag (above Cristiano Ronaldo) to recompose his attack with the loss of Martial, the Brazilian winger emerged when Arsenal pressed more, more dominated the possession and more threatened the survival of the zero in the goal of David de Gea, who flew fantastic against Gabriel Martinelli. Antony then vindicated his qualities against the weight of 100 million euros, which seem excessive… Or not. The future and the results will tell.
In the 57th minute he was replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo. Even when the market is already closed, the substitution of the Portuguese star is not surprising. It’s not so conspicuous anymore. For the fourth consecutive day, he was a reserve at United, with the addition that Martial was not available and the duel of significance this Sunday.
Since the hit that toured the world against Brenrford (4-0), the only game as a starter so far this season for ‘CR7’, he has not started from the starting lineups again. And United win it all. To Liverpool, to Southampton, to Leicester… And to Arsenal.
The reaction of the London team was not enough, visible, conclusive, at the height expected at the level they have shown so far, in unthinkable records in possession at the start of the second half (the first ten minutes, the visiting block dominated the ball 85 percent for the local 15), overwhelming at times in the pressure, in the transition and in the offense and deserving of the tie from the intermission.
He achieved 1-1. For a matter of definition, because Odegaard blundered once and Saka crossed his shot too much inside the area or whose center, on another occasion, crashed against the crossbar, the equalizer was delayed until minute 59: victim of the pressure in the opposite field of the visitors, Varane lost a ball in his midfield that reactivated Arsenal’s offensive machine and the perfect pass from Odegaard to Gabriel Jesús, which did not quite reach, but promoted the rebound that Saka converted in the 1-1 ( m. 59).
But in the swing of the whole game, in an unpredictable duel, everything changed suddenly, as it had in the 1-0. When Arsenal was best perceived, United struck. On the counterattack, with the first touch of Eriksen, with the extraordinary vision and execution of the final pass by Bruno Fernandes, with the outside of his right foot, to launch Marcus Rashford on the run, the home team regained its advantage before the disbelief of Mikel Arteta.
The 2-1 already completely discovered Arsenal, exposed in their offense to the imagination of Bruno Fernandes, who destroyed the ‘gunner’ team as soon as he had space forward. His next pass set up another counter to Christian Eriksen. In the two against one of the Danish international and Rashford against Ramsdale, he did the easiest thing: he gave it to the striker for his ‘double’ (he was later injured, like Lisandro Martínez), the reaffirmation of United and the first defeat of a leader, suddenly, in question.
With EFE information
