Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 on Wednesday evening as they kept up their efforts of staying in the title race.
Jurrien Timber opened the scoring for his side when he headed in from Declan Rice's corner for his first Gunners goal. Arsenal's lead was doubled courtesy of another corner. Bukayo Saka's delivery was met by Thomas Partey at the back post who's header across goal was deflected in by William Saliba.
In a game that had a great impact on their title efforts, there were a number of positives and negatives for Arsenal to take from it.
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Arsenal have become arguably the most dangerous side in the world from set pieces and they enforced that argument even further against Man United.
Both of the Gunners' goals came from corners, one from either side. Declan Rice's delivery was met by Jurrien Timber who glanced a great header past Andre Onana to put his side ahead. While Arsenal's second goal was a bit more of a fluke, their set piece brilliance was still highlighted. Thomas Partey got on the end of Bukayo Saka's corner at the back post to head across to William Saliba who deflected it in.
Teams still seem to have so much trouble defending the Gunners' set pieces despite their brilliance having been highlighted on the pitch and the media for so long. Long let this dominance continue for Arsenal.
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Despite their win and dominant performance, Arsenal started the game quite slowly as they allowed United to control parts of the opening 25 minutes.
Not only did they allow the visitors to take control, the Gunners were also left frustrated in attack. Both Gabriel Martinelli and Thomas Partey missed golden chances to put their side ahead in the first half.
The result is what mattered for the Gunners but it would be nice to see them attack games and dominate teams from the off. That has been the case in recent games against Sporting CP and West Ham so it would have been nice to see that same attitude versus United.
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