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Manchester United Suffer Defensive Disasterclass After Just Two Minutes Against Arsenal, It's Comical

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Updated 12:56 23 Apr 2022 GMT+1Published 12:46 23 Apr 2022 GMT+1

Manchester United Suffer Defensive Disasterclass After Just Two Minutes Against Arsenal, It's Comical

A nightmare week continues.

Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare

It has taken Arsenal just two minutes to open the scoring against Manchester United – and it was a comical string of defensive errors from the away side that made it 1-0.

Granit Xhaka whipped in a dangerous ball on the left hand side and after both Raphael Varane and Alex Telles failed to clear, David de Gea managed to parry away a decent Bukayo Saka effort.

But after a slack piece of defending from full-back Diogo Dalot, who failed to pick up his man, Nuno Tavares tucked away from close range to give Mikel Arteta's side an early lead. You can see the goal below.

Social media were quick to react to United's woeful defending in the opening stages on Saturday afternoon.

One fan said: "Telles and Varane that’s actually criminal defending. Like worse than Sunday League level," while another wrote: "So who we blaming for this one United fans, or are we going to finally admit that we might just not be good at defending as a unit."

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A third commented: "The only thing worse than United’s defending is that knee slide celebration Tavares tried to do."

Despite conceding early on against the Gunners, United have looked dangerous going forward.

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire, meanwhile, was dropped from the starting XI for Saturday's clash against Arsenal, and interim boss Ralf Rangnick explained the decision ahead of kick-off.

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"I had to make a decision between the three of them [Lindelof, Varane, Maguire]. Two could only play," the German told MUTV.

"Harry has had a tough week. I decided to give him a rest and play with Rapha Varane and Victor Lindelof."

Thoughts on United's performance so far against Arsenal?

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Let us know in the comments.

Featured Image Credit: BT Sport

Topics: Manchester United, Arsenal, Premier League

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack is a Senior Journalist who enjoys a long read. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day, and has interviewed a handful of FM's finest, including Freddy Adu, Supat Rungratsamee and Mika Aaritalo.

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