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Key events
Manchester United are at the moment competing in the Women’s FA Cup Final against Tottenham at Wembley and scored an absolute scrimmage to take the lead:
Mikel Arteta has a chat:
It’s always a big challenge [to win here]. Great place to come. Obviously we are playing for something massive and we have to prove that we can come to this stadium and achieve it. They have many individual qualities and can turn momentum in any action, and that is a great quality. Today we have to earn the right to go into the final day with the option of winning the Premier League. That’s the challenge, but the opportunity is huge. But to be a favorite here, you have to earn that right over many, many years – we haven’t.
The teams!
Team sheets have been sent, and the names in the frame are as follows:
Manchester United: Onana, Dalot, Casemiro, Evans, Wan-Bissaka, Mainoo, Amrabat, Diallo, McTominay, Garnacho, Hoylund. subtitles: Bayindir, Eriksen, Antony, Kambwala, Forson, Collier, Amas, Ogunei, Whitley.
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomiyasu, Odegaard, Partey, Rice, Saka, Havertz, Trossard. subtitles: Ramsdale, Gabriel Jesus, Smith Rowe, Martinelli, Nketia, Kivior, Jorginho, Vieira, Zinchenko.
Referee: Paul Tierney.
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No change for the fourth game in a row.
Let’s give it all we got, gunners 👊 pic.twitter.com/2pw6b4zRCY
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) May 12, 2024
Preamble
Hello world! It’s a big old game, this one and the visitors must win it if this year’s title battle, which only a few weeks ago was being talked about as perhaps the best yet, is not to prematurely turn into a procession. There will be some nerves among their fans and it is true that Arsenal do have a poor record at Old Trafford (last 16 league games: W1, D5, L10). But this Manchester United side are pretty grim on their own, so this probably shouldn’t be much of a concern. The Gunners have lost just one league game this calendar year, suggesting they are handling the pressure of the title chase quite well, even if those three dropped points currently look likely to cost them the pot at the end of it all. Win this, though, and if Tottenham can just do them a favor on Tuesday, there will be a replay. Meanwhile, if United win this, they go level (on points if they’re well behind on goal difference) with Newcastle and Chelsea in sixth/seventh, so could still salvage a poor season with a non-humiliating league position and, potentially, the FA Cup-shaped bonus. So yeah, it’s a big old game, this one. Welcome!
Kickoff: 16:30 BST
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