Former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has predicted the Gunners will choose up a cushty victory over Manchester United of their upcoming Premier League assembly. The 2-time Premier League winner, who scored 50 occasions and supplied 111 assists within the English high flight, believes Arsenal are too robust for Erik ten Hag’s facet.
Manchester United, who’re toiling in eighth place within the Premier League, will welcome Arsenal to Previous Trafford on Matchday 37 of the 2023-24 Premier League season. Of their earlier outing, the Mancunians fell to an embarrassing 4-0 defeat to Crystal Palace. It marked their thirteenth defeat within the Premier League — their worst return within the competitors’s historical past.
Whereas United reached an undesirable milestone of their final Premier League outing, Arsenal merely put their head down and bagged a routine 3-0 victory over Bournemouth.
With 83 factors on the board after 36 matches, Mikel Arteta’s facet are sitting one level away from second-placed Manchester Metropolis. Sadly for the Londoners, Metropolis have a recreation in hand, which means they’ll win the title in the event that they win their remaining three matches.
Cesc Fabregas Backs Arsenal To Beat Manchester United At Previous Trafford
To offer themselves a preventing probability, Arsenal should win all their remaining matches, and Fabregas is assured they won’t stumble of their journey to Manchester on Sunday (Could 12).
Giving his prediction for the sport, Fabregas mentioned on Planet Premier League Podcast (through The Boot Room):
“A derby is a derby, I think about it an enormous recreation, Arsenal and United have at all times been particular video games. It’s true that, in the meanwhile, United usually are not on the stage they had been up to now, we will all agree with that. Arsenal are too robust for them in the meanwhile.
“I do assume Arsenal play by reminiscence, they’re assured, they imagine, they’ve skilled, they’ve grown over the past 12 months and improved.”
He concluded by including:
“So yeah, I feel Arsenal will win that recreation comfortably, I received’t say simple as a result of United have the historical past and we now have to respect that, however I think about United too robust in the meanwhile.”
Manchester United and Arsenal have confronted one another 240 occasions throughout competitions. United have received 99, Gunners 88, whereas 53 video games have ended all sq..
