 | Arsenal’s win at Manchester United may not have impressed, but it was just what they need |
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There was a thought at times in the second part of last season, when the set-piece goals dried up, that Arsenal had become over-reliant on them.
In that sense, the fact that the game was decided by United goalkeeper Altay Bayindir’s flap at a Rice inswinger was entirely to be expected.
What was less predictable was the nature of the game that followed as United hit the post and David Raya was called into seven saves.
Arsenal have scored 31 times from corners since the beginning of the 2023-24 season, at least 11 more than any other side in the Premier League.
The answer to that will only become apparent as the season goes on. ‘I want to keep this club in the promised land’: Farke’s mission to keep Leeds upRead more Arsenal, though, probably can take comfort and more than a degree of satisfaction from having beaten United away.
Given the sort of space Wolves afforded them, they will cut teams apart but the openness they exhibited at times last season and again in the Club World Cup has not gone away; better sides than Wolves may be able to exploit that.
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