Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2020
Result
Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United
Premier League · Wednesday 1 January 2020, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United: match report
Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 1 January 2020. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Nicolas Pépé opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Nicolas Pépé (8') and Sokratis Papastathopoulos (42'). Manchester United did not score.
Discipline: Arsenal received 2 yellow cards; Manchester United received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Arsenal were 13th on 24 points from 20 and Manchester United 5th on 31 points from 20. Arsenal went on to finish that season 8th with 56 points, and Manchester United 3rd with 66.
Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Manchester United in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Bernd Leno of Arsenal (8.1), level with Nicolas Pépé (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Arsenal wins, 4 draws and 3 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Arsenal's last five read L-D-D-L-W and Manchester United's W-W-L-D-W.
Key events
- 3'Yellow card · Sead Kolasinac
- 8'Goal · Nicolas Pépé
- 42'Goal · Sokratis Papastathopoulos
- 82'Yellow card · Bukayo Saka
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bernd Leno, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, David Luiz, Sead Kolasinac, Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé, Mesut Özil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette
Manchester United line-up (4-2-3-1)
David de Gea, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelöf, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Fred, Nemanja Matić, Daniel James, Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial