兵器庫 were drained of energy and 革新 but were 感謝する for 部隊d's predictably woeful finishing as they take the 肩書を与える fight 負かす/撃墜する to the wire, 令状s OLIVER HOLT after 決定的な 1-0 勝利,勝つ at Old Trafford
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Gripped by stultifying torpor in the 蒸し暑い heat of a Sunday afternoon, 兵器庫 played like a team waiting for a 嵐/襲撃する to break at Old Trafford and wash away their dreams of winning a first 首相 League 肩書を与える for 20 years.
Drained of energy and 革新, they 法廷,裁判所d 災害 time after time against one of the weakest Manchester 部隊d?line-ups that the club has fielded in 最近の years.?
The 空気/公表する got heavier and the sense of foreboding, the sense that their challenge would 効果的に end here, grew with it.
And when the heavens finally opened in the dying minutes and 雷鳴 rent the 空気/公表する and 雷 crackled across the sky and the rain fell in stair-棒s, 実験(する)ing that 悪名高くも leaky stadium roof, (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域ing 負かす/撃墜する on it like thousands of angry 握りこぶしs, it presaged not the end of 兵器庫’s challenge but their deliverance from danger.
The fight is still on. The 戦う/戦い is still joined. 兵器庫 are taking this 肩書を与える fight 権利 負かす/撃墜する to the wire. Their victory here means that their 戦う/戦い with Manchester City will be decided on the final day of the 首相 League season next Sunday.
Leandro Trossard (権利) put 兵器庫 ahead with his 12th 首相 League goal of the season
The ベルギー tucked away Kai Havertz's low cross after the 訪問者s 回復するd 所有/入手?
Casemiro was at fault for the 譲歩 as his 深い position 許すd Havertz to receive the ball in an onside position
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City are still the hot favourites but this 兵器庫 勝利,勝つ means Pep Guardiola’s 味方する will likely have to 勝利,勝つ at 刺激(する)s on Tuesday evening and again at home to West Ham on Sunday to 否定する them. 兵器庫, who are a point (疑いを)晴らす of City, having played a game more, will contest their final match against Everton at the 首長国s with one 注目する,もくろむ on the Etihad.
The final whistle was met by an almighty roar of 救済 and 勝利 from the away end at Old Trafford as the rain turned the touchlines into rivers and the smart linen 控訴 of 部隊d’s 経営者/支配人, Erik ten Hag, clung to him in the downpour.
This was not a 勝利 for 兵器庫 like the famous 勝利,勝つ here in 2002 when Sylvain Wiltord clinched the 肩書を与える and a 調印する appeared anointing the away enclosure as the ‘支持する/優勝者s’ Section’.?
That was a 勝利 without 資格. This was a stepping 石/投石する on the way to a goal they 恐れる will elude them at the last.
部隊d 海難救助d some pride after their hapless 業績/成果 against 水晶 Palace last week but it could not disguise the fact they are on course for their worst league showing since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.?
It is still hard to shake the feeling that this is a club 長,率いるing backwards. It is 平等に hard to see a 未来 for Ten Hag at the club once the curtain comes 負かす/撃墜する on the FA Cup Final.
The ありそうもない prospect of 部隊d 行う/開催する/段階ing some sort of an upset took a 抱擁する 攻撃する,衝突する an hour before the kick-off when the teamsheets were 解放(する)d. 部隊d’s line-up looked so threadbare that it 刺激するd a 肉親,親類d of sadness when it was 分配するd in the 圧力(をかける) room. Had it really come to this? Is this really all 部隊d have to 申し込む/申し出?
傷害s played a part, of course, but that team sheet read like the 給料 of sin. It read like the price a club ? and, yes, Ten Hag, too ? is 支払う/賃金ing for a 10年間 of mismanagement and shocking 新規採用 under the Glazers.
労働 leader and 兵器庫 fan Sir Keir Starmer was in 出席 for the heavyweight Old Trafford 衝突/不一致
部隊d enjoyed 肯定的な (一定の)期間s in the first half and could have gone ahead when Rasmus Hojlund was through on goal but he slipped while taking the 発射
Mikel Arteta 削減(する) a 緊張した 人物/姿/数字 as his 味方する were made to work for the important victory
Amad Diallo (権利) impressed for the 訪問者s after coming into the starting XI for the 衝突/不一致
It looked like a 中央の-(米)棚上げする/(英)提議する 味方する, at best. It looked like a team that had 絶対 no chance of upsetting a 味方する that has grown as much as 兵器庫 has grown while 部隊d have been 許すd to stagnate and 拒絶する/低下する.
部隊d did create the first chance of the game. But they wasted it. Scott McTominay, their 船長/主将, dispossessed Thomas Partey on the 辛勝する/優位 of the 兵器庫 box and the ball fell to Rasmus Hojlund. Hojlund had time and space to shoot but he slipped at the 決定的な moment and his 発射 dribbled wide.
部隊d were 現実に the better team for the first 20 minutes. Then 兵器庫 得点する/非難する/20d. Ten Hag could not (人命などを)奪う,主張する that he had not been forewarned of the shortcomings of Casemiro at centre half after his 悲惨な 業績/成果 against 水晶 Palace there last week but now it cost his team again.
兵器庫 mopped up an aimless ball from Andre Onana and, with Casemiro lagging yards behind the 残り/休憩(する) of the 部隊d defence, Ben White played a clever pass to Kai Havertz in space on the 権利.?
Havertz 前進するd and, as Casemiro ball-watched, Trossard stole in between him and Aaron 病弱な-Bissaka and clipped Havertz’s cross into the 逮捕する.
兵器庫’s strike meant 部隊d had 譲歩するd 82 goals across all 競争s this season, the most in a 選び出す/独身 (選挙などの)運動をする since 1970-71, more even than in 1973-74 when they were relegated from the old First 分割.
And yet there were times throughout the 残り/休憩(する) of the half when 部隊d seemed to be dragging 兵器庫 負かす/撃墜する to their level. The game settled 支援する into a pattern where the home team were playing the better football. Amad Diallo, in particular, stood out. He has not featured much for 部隊d until now. In this 悲惨な 気候, that may be a 特別手当.
兵器庫’s lethargy 固執するd in the second half. They could not shake it off. They looked a long way from the fluent 部隊 that swept so many teams aside this season. They sat 支援する, soaking up 部隊d 圧力, 確信して that their 対抗者s did not 所有する the wit to make their 所有/入手 支払う/賃金.
Now and again, they gave 部隊d 開始s. Alejandro Garnacho 削減(する) inside Ben White after an hour and was 直面するd with the freedom of Old Trafford as he 前進するd to the 辛勝する/優位 of the area. He could have taken the ball その上の on but he tried to curl a 発射 into the 最高の,を越す corner and got it horribly wrong. It sailed high and wide.
Still 兵器庫 struggled to 注入する any 緊急 into their play. Twenty minutes from the end, 部隊d 代用品,人 Antony nicked the ball away from Takehiro Tomiyasu inside the 兵器庫 half and ran at the 退却/保養地ing defence. He miscued his 発射, too. 兵器庫, though, were 法廷,裁判所ing 災害.
Alejandro Garnacho (middle) had the (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域ing of Ben White (left) for much of the second-half but the 部隊d's winger's end 製品 was often 設立する wanting
Andre Onana made a few telling 出資/貢献s after the break to keep 部隊d in the contest
兵器庫 have now kept seven clean sheets in their last eight 首相 League games to take their 一致する this season to 11?
Erik ten Hag's 味方する find themselves three points 流浪して of Newcastle and Chelsea
Next, Bukayo Saka, who had had a poor game, gave the ball away cheaply to Garnacho, who 始める,決める off on another mazy run に向かって goal. Garnacho 新たな展開d and turned but then 攻撃する,衝突する his 発射 into the 味方する netting from 12 yards out.
兵器庫 conjured a rare chance when 代用品,人 Gabriel Martinelli burst 負かす/撃墜する the left, 削減(する) inside 病弱な-Bissaka and weaved across the area. He 解除するd his 発射 high に向かって the roof of the 逮捕する but Onana produced a 罰金 save to tip it over the 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業.
Then the rains (機の)カム. The result was the only thing that 事柄d. Everything else was washed away in the tempe st.