Match Day Thread Manchester United vs Arsenal - Matchday Thread

What happened to Holding ?

 

Rashford clattered into him and he landed awkwardly on the side of the pitch. There's a lot of rumours going round that he's had knee ligament damage which, if true, could effectively end his season.

Real shame if it does turn out to be true, as he was performing well for us.

Ramsey's injury is less severe, but could apparently be out for between 2 - 6 weeks.

It's frustrating that just as one player begins to get fit, another player seems to get injured.

Koscielny could be back in contention for the Huddersfield game (on the bench), but there's less certainty on injury updates to Mavrapanos and Monreal. Monreal was only meant to be out for 2 weeks, but he's been out for a month. Mavrapanos was meant to be back in training in October, yet we're in December and there's still nothing concrete.

We may be forced to bring in a centre-half in January, even if it's short-term.

 

Hopefully koscielny will be back soon. But there’s a question mark about what level he can come back too given his age and length out of the game.

Really bad news about holding. He’d pretty much made that place his own at the back. Let’s hope it isn’t as bad as first feared. Lord knows we could do with some good fortune on the injury front. Our injuries always seem to turn out to be worst case scenarios

 

Holding has been great recently. Looked like a bad injury (probably ACL/MCL) - hope he's not out to long but knee injury are generally slow to heal.

The Big issue for us now is that we will probably go back to a back four.

The 3 centre-back combination has been working well and I cant see Emery playing a fullback in there (the way Wenger did). Most likely scenario is we will go back to a 'Bellerin-Mustafi-Sokratis-Kolasinac' combination.

 

Disappointing result as I think they were there for the beating. But the team did look fatigued. This is were the squad have to earn their money. I would be tempted to give Torreira a rest and Elneny to come in. And play Xhaka, Elneny/Guedouzi. Laca to start and Auba given a breather. Ozil to come back.

The draw is not the worst result in the world in all honesty.

 

Shows how tight the top 6 is gonna be this Season though. Draw a game and we immediately drop out of the top four.

 

The key is that we cannot afford to drop points against teams in the bottom half of the table. We lost 2points yesterday. A draw is almost as a win. You gain more points with 2 wins and loss than 1win and 2 draws!