Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer has backed Arsenal to beat Manchester United
Alan Shearer believes Arsenal will beat Manchester United when they clash at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Arsenal come into the match off the back of a comprehensive 7-1 win over PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Tuesday, while United drew 1-1 with Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday.
As a result of Arsenal's midweek performance and United's struggles, Shearer is confident the Gunners will get the job done. "Because Arsenal had it so easy the other night, and Man United didn't while having their struggles, I'm going to go for an away win to Arsenal," he told the Metro.
And Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has insisted his side will be full of confidence when they take on United following their big win over PSV. "It's always tough when we play them," Odegaard said.
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"I don't think they are where they want to be in the table but we know the qualities they have to win the game, they have a lot of individual quality, and when they click as a team it's challenging to play them, so it's a great challenge for us.
"We have to take the good feeling now into Sunday and hopefully we can do more of that. They're not where they want to be in the table and it's a big club and it's been struggling a little bit but as I said before we know the quality they have when they're on it.
"A lot of good individual players that we have to be ready for so we go there to win, we're Arsenal and we're not scared to go there to win so that's it. We have to do our job, we can only hope and win our games, then we will see what happens.
Ruben Amorim and Mikel Arteta
United are set to host Arsenal in a huge Premier League clash ( Image: Manchester United via Getty Images)
"Obviously we've put ourselves in a difficult position at the moment but we have to keep going, we have to try and win every time we play and we will see what happens with Liverpool, but I think the main thing is to focus on us and we can win the games.
"We will fight until the end, I think that's the mindset of everyone, we've been fighting three years in a row for the title and a few years back we were leading with a lot of points and we ended second, so in football everything is possible, the main thing is just to keep going and keep working hard and day-by-day get better and win the games and we'll see."
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