Premier League Second Half Report: Manchester United vs. Arsenal
The match continued after the break in almost the exact same manner. Arsenal and United were battling it out like there was no tomorrow and they should have been since a spot at top of the Premier League was at stake.
What was different in the second half was the fact that this time around, Arsenal were looking to be camping in the United half, with the home team looking to break on the counter.
Arsenal kept mustering up chances, but really lacked a final product in front of the goal. There were two opportunities for United to kill the game with in the second half. The first one came on the fifty ninth minute, when United launched
a classic counter attack on Arsenal and Anderson managed to make himself free in front on the Arsenal goal, however Szczesny managed to do just about enough and pulled of a brilliant save from point black range.
The next chance fell United's way again as they were awarded a rather generous penalty. Clichy tumbled over in his area and Nani's footwork managed to make the ball connect with the fallen players arm. However the linesman decided it was
an intentional act and ended up awarding the spot kick.
Wayne Rooney took the resulting kick and managed an awkward run up, before finally sky-rocketed the shot. That attempt from the player pretty much summed up his season so far.
In the second half Wenger went on to introduce Fabregas, Van Persie and even Walcott. However neither one of these additions seemed to do the trick for Arsenal, as the team despite dominating possession, failed to really create the final
product, or launch the killer ball.
After a long struggling second half from Arsenal, the match ended with United winning by one goal to nil all thanks to the Park Ji-Sung goal from the first half, which was now being deemed as one of the flukes of the season by all the
experts.
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