{"id":3858,"date":"2024-05-14T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:23:15","slug":"cautious-arsenal-defeat-a-poor-man-united-keeping-title-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/cautious-arsenal-defeat-a-poor-man-united-keeping-title-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious Arsenal Defeat A Poor Man United &#8211; Keeping Title Hopes Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z76Pkp3FqFs?si=joD6SQ0zLFhaBX2v\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In our review of Arsenal away to Manchester United, both Blackburn George and I conclude that while the Gunners were conservative in their approach they were excellent defensively as they comfortably edged a poor United team. Arsenal was able to secure the three points necessary to keep our slim title hopes alive. Special kudos to William Saliba who in the eyes of most observers was Arsenal&#8217;s man-of-the-match.<\/p>\n<p>As an extra bonus for readers of the blog, below are the stats and data used to support our analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match stats<\/strong> (via premierleague.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3860\" src=\"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-stats-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-stats-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-stats-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-stats-1536x1135.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-stats.jpg 1846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Player ratings<\/strong> (via whoscored.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3861\" src=\"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-plyr-rtngs-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-plyr-rtngs-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-plyr-rtngs-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MUNARS-plyr-rtngs.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our review of Arsenal away to Manchester United, both Blackburn George and I conclude that while the Gunners were conservative in their approach they were excellent defensively as they comfortably edged a poor United team. Arsenal was able to secure the three points necessary to keep our slim title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[429,2,43,25,86,26,9],"tags":[24,709,877,875,874,160,873,872,876,348,464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}