At 18:00 Lithuanian time, the penultimate match of the 36th round of the English Premier League took place.
At the Emirates Stadium, two neighbors of the tournament table - London's Arsenal and Manchester United teams clashed. Arsene Wenger finally achieved his first Premier League victory against Jose Mourinho - the Gunners beat their opponents 2-0.
The Red Devils played with a blood-stained lineup, while the Gunners tried to take advantage from the first minutes of the match. In the first half, the hosts were more active and created several dangerous chances, but the score remained 0-0 after the first 45 minutes.
In the second half, the Arsenal team was not willing to let Man Utd win, and in the 54th minute, Arsenal's fans rose from their seats at the Emirates Stadium as Granit Xhaka's shot ricocheted off Ander Herrera's back into David De Gea's goal.
Arsenal took the lead and soon increased it to two goals. In the 57th minute, after a great high pass from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Danny Welbeck scored against his former team.
For the rest of the time, the visitors could not recover, despite Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard being brought on. Arsenal bounced back from their defeat in the previous round and celebrated an important victory.
Arsenal reduced their gap from fifth-placed Man Utd to 2 points with this victory, and they are now 6 points behind the top four teams.
Furthermore, with this loss, Man Utd's unbeaten streak in all competitions ended at 25 consecutive matches.
Result:
Arsenal 2 - 0 Man Utd
54' [1 - 0] G. Xhaka
57' [2 - 0] D. Welbeck
Tournament table:
Starting lineups:
Arsenal: Cech, Holding, Koscielny, Monreal, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck.
Man Utd: De Gea, Tuanzebe, Jones, Smalling, Darmian, Herrera, Carrick, Mkhitaryan, Mata, Martial, Rooney.
