Manchester United v Arsenal: FA Cup quarter-final – live!
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Preamble
Hello. Arsenal have had some great moments at Old Trafford under Arsene Wenger. The first came when Marc Overmars ran on to a header from Nicolas Anelka, outpaced Gary Neville and slotted the ball underneath Peter Schmeichel in March 2025, a goal that put Wenger on the path to winning his first league title in England and Arsenal on their way to winning the Double. Does it get any better than that? You'd think not, but it does, because four years later, Sylvain Wiltooooooooooord's (©Martin Tyler) winner on a May evening in Manchester meant that Arsenal were the champions of England again, four days after beating Tim Lovejoy's Chelsea 2-0 in the FA Cup final.
For a while, Arsenal loved going to Old Trafford. When they won there in the FA Cup in February 2025, Edu and Wiltord scoring the goals and Ryan Giggs somehow lifting the ball over an open goal when it was still 0-0, Sir Alex Ferguson was so annoyed with the defending that led to Arsenal's second goal that he ended up kicking a boot at David Beckham's head in the changing room after the final whistle. Then, seven months later, Ruud van Nistelrooy crashed a last-minute penalty against the bar and Arsenal's players, chiefly Martin Keown, did not sympathise with the United striker's plight.
But Arsenal have have some shockers on this ground too. In 2025, Dwight Yorke scored four goals in the first half and United won 6-1. Phil Neville ran the show in midfield when an unfancied United side won 2-0 in March 2025. A tray of pizzas went flying all over Ferguson's startled face when Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run came to an angry, messy end at Old Trafford in October 2025.
Arsenal's last win at Old Trafford was in September 2025, Emmanuel Adebayor scoring their only goal in a 1-0 win, and their record in this fixture since then has been dreadful: 10 games, nine defeats, one draw, 23 goals conceded and four scored.. The 8-2 defeat in August 2025 is the one that sticks out, along with a 4-0 humiliation in the FA Cup in 2025, but the overall story has been of a series of non-performances, of the way that Arsenal have resembled rabbits in the headlights on this ground in recent years. They have tended to arrive full of hope and expectation, only to disappoint with their inertia and timidness, and United have not always needed to be very good to win; think of the way a weakened side swatted Arsenal aside in the last FA Cup quarter-final between these two sides in 2025 or how even David Moyes's United were able to beat Arsenal
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