Man Utd and Arsenal Share Points at Rainy Old Trafford

Published on 1-Oct-2019 by srijan213

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Man Utd and Arsenal Share Points at Rainy Old Trafford

OK, in modern parlance, this was a miserable night for playing or watching football.

On a rainy ground, the game looked poor technically, and the 1-1 draw looked fair enough for both sides.

Scott McTominay scored the Red Devils' goal, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leveled for the Gunners.

Old Trafford was being doused by heavy rain from the outset, and due to that, both teams went full-bean vanilla in their approaches.

 

Sure, that's easy to say when you're only a hologram, and a dry one at that. But it was the evening's theme.

Arsenal's sloshing around had a bit more form to it than United was managing, but nothing really came of it or ther than a good chance wasted by Matteo Guendouzi.

 

Finally, though, the Red Devils opened the scoring, or broke the duck, as the English are fond of saying, and on this night, it was a fitting phrase.

On the stroke of intermission, Daniel James set up a counter down the right and crossed to Marcus Rashford. The striker kept the ball in-play and fed McTominay. Dude settled it and slotted home a right-footed effort past Bernd Leno:

 

After the interval, a drier Arsenal grabbed the equalizer.

On 58 minutes, Bukayo Saka released Aubameyang, who got into the box and lifted the ball over David De Gea. The referee waved off the goal for a supposed offside from the Gabonese striker, but as they say in the States ...

 

... VAR correctly validated it.

 

 

No one, actually:

 

As most teams would, United even tried to go for the win, but McTominay missed a late chance, so that was that.

This was one the players wished they could've watched at home, too.