England – 21st matchday – Arsenal-Manchester United’s notes with a decisive Nicolas Pépé

England – 21st day

After falling against Chelsea last Sunday, the Arsenal Gunners found their way to victory against Manchester United (2-0) at the Emirates Stadium. Particularly thanks to their flagship summer recruit. FF’s notes.

Arsenal’s notes

Grandpa (8) in all the right moves
Inspired, in confidence, the Ivorian international has certainly just signed the best match of his young history with the Gunners. Beyond the goal he scored with a nice recovery from the left, on a good service from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and the corner he put on the head of Alexandre Lacazette and which led to the second goal of his own, number 19 showed his best face. The one who had lit up the last Ligue 1 season and which Arsenal supporters had hitherto only glimpsed. During the 62 minutes he spent on the lawn, Nicolas Pépé simply did not miss a single of the 26 passes he attempted (!), He created 4 scoring chances and scored 4 dribbles (out of 6 tempted). Add to that a big activity at the loss of the ball (16 duels disputed) and you get a reference match.

Leno 6
Maitland-Niles 5
Sokratis 6
David Luiz 7
Kolasinac 6
Torreira 8
Xhaka 6
Pepe 8
Özil 7
Aubameyang 6
Lacazette 7

Manchester United ratings

Lingard (3) once again did not weigh
Last year, Jesse Lingard did not score a single goal in the Championship, nor deliver any assist. Unfortunately for Manchester United, its playmaker did not make the resolutions that fans of the club expected. Desperate for the lack of statistical impact of their number 14, they had, this Wednesday evening, to be exasperated by its lack of activity. The one who was positioned in support of Anthony Martial in 4-2-3-1 by Ole Gunnar Solskjær never weighed. One number is enough to measure his lack of influence on the game: Jesse Lingard only managed 20 short passes. This earned him to be replaced from the hour of play by Andreas Pereira, who only managed one less pass than him. In half the time.

From Gea 3
Wan Bissaka 4
Lindelöf 4
Maguire 4
Shaw 4
Fred 6
Matic 5
James 4
Lingard 3
Rashford 3
Martial 4

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