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Saturday November 3, 2007 Finished Emirates Stadium

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Arsenal

  • Fabregas 48’
  • Gallas 90’

Manchester United

  • Gallas 45’ (o.g.)
  • Ronaldo 82’
  1. Gallas saves Arsenal at death

    Gallas saves Arsenal at death

    An injury time equaliser from William Gallas preserved Arsenal's unbeaten start to the season as the Gunners grabbed a 2-2 draw with Manchester United at the Emirates. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Arsenal
    • Manchester United
    • 90'+3 There it is! All over at the Emirates! And it ends at 2-2! Stunning finish to the game as Gallas makes up for his earlier hand in United's first with an amazing injury time effort!
    • 90'+2 GOAL! INCREDIBLE! GALLAS NETS TO GIVE ARSENAL A POINT AT THE DEATH! An incredible goalmouth scramble ends with Gallas volleying into the back of the net to preserve their unbeaten start to the season!
    • 90' Three minutes of added time to be played!
    • 88' Time running out for Arsenal... as Evra makes a meal out of a Walcott foul just to eat away a few precious seconds!
    • 85' Ooooh! Evra slices a clearance horribly! The ball spoons over the bar by inches! That would have been awful!
    • 82' GOAL! UNITED TAKE THE LEAD THROUGH RONALDO! Saha finds Evra's run behind the Arsenal back line... the Frenchman pulls it back from the byline and Ronaldo is there to slot home! 2-1 now and just eight minutes remaining!
    • 81' Changes galore at the moment... on comes Eduardo da Silva for Rosicky... and Gilberto comes on for Hleb...
    • 80' Vidic meets the corner at the near post! He lands awkwardly, but he'll be fine...
    • 80' Corner to United now... Giggs to take it with just ten minutes remaining...
    • 76' And here comes Louis Saha! The injury-prone striker comes on for Carlos Tevez... and Carrick replaces Anderson.
    • 75' Here comes Arsenal's first change of the day... Theo Walcott comes on for Eboue...
    • 73' Anderson now tries his luck from about 40 yards... Almunia gets down to make what is a comfortable save...
    • 71' United make their first change of the day... John O'Shea on for Wesley Brown...
    • 70' ROSICKY! Ooooh! That's a great effrot from the Czech with the outside of his right boot! Wide of the mark though!
    • 69' Rooney lets fly from distance! Comfortable save from Almunia!
    • 68' Brilliant from Rooney to clip the ball through to Evra... the full-back plays the ball back across the face of goal... but Ronaldo's just a yard behind the pace and the chance goes begging!
    • 65' Hleb with a shooting chance at the other end! But his effort is blazed over the bar from the edge of the box!
    • 64' Oooh! Rooney wastes a great chance to put United ahead again! His header goes wide of the mark, when getting it on target seemed easier!
    • 61' Brown goes in hard, but fair, on Clichy... and sends the Frenchman about two foot into the air in the process!
    • 60' Corner now to United, as the visitors begin to steady the ship following the goal... Giggs sends it over... the ball reaches Rooney, whose header goes wide.
    • 58' Fabregas brings van der Sar into action from a free-kick, right on the edge of the box! The Dutchman gets down on it well though!
    • 56' Brown humps a long ball upfield... Rooney hares off after it... and Gallas takes no risks by putting the ball out...
    • 54' Expect this game to be a lot more open than the first half now... both sides have found their scoring touches, and the crowd are baying for more!
    • 51' Great response from Arsenal to that hammer blow before the break... have United got what it takes to go ahead again now?
    • 50' That has changed the atmosphere at the Emirates completely! The crowd, fresh from their half-time refreshments, can now be heard!
    • 48' GOAL! FABREGAS BRINGS ARSENAL BACK ON LEVEL TERMS! Adebayor runs onto a clipped pass through, only to be denied by a decent save from van der Sar! The ball breaks to Sagna who does well to pull the ball back to the unmarked Fabregas on the penalty spot... and the Spaniard coolly slots home into the bottom left hand corner! 1-1!
    • 46' Back underway in north London!
    • 45'+2 And there goes the half-time whistle! A real blow for Arsenal right before the break and United head into the dressing rooms a goal to the good!
    • 45'+1 GOAL! UNITED TAKE THE LEAD! And it's Rooney at the near post who gets on the scoresheet! Brown releases Ronaldo on the right... the Portuguese gets there before Clichy to slide a cross over to Rooney! In fact, it looks like Gallas gets the final touch, off his hand... no matter! United in the lead!
    • 44' Anderson is getting the bird from the home fans every time he touches the ball now... presumably for his role in Fabergas' booking...
    • 43' Adebayor runs at Ferdinand into the United box... but Owen Hargreaves is there to do what he does so well - mop up.
    • 40' Anderson tries a little trick on the ball... and Fabregas floors him to earn the first yellow card of the afternoon for an Arsenal player.
    • 39' Rosicky lets fly after good work from Fabregas on the left... but it's easy for Van der Sar...
    • 36' Ohhh! Fabregas delivers a great ball from a free-kick to the near post where Gallas meets it with a powerful header! Super save from Van der Sar to deny the Gunners an opener!
    • 35' Giggs takes it... headed clear by Gallas...
    • 34' Ronaldo runs onto a long Vidic ball... and he does well to win a corner of Clichy... up come the big guns for United...
    • 33' Hleb draws a round of applause from the crowd after chasing a ball down and keeping it in play... always a crowd-pleaser, that one!
    • 32' Super early cross into the near post from Ronaldo! ROONEY! No! Great challenge from Toure to deny the England striker an effort on goal!
    • 30' Anderson breaks for United... and he wins a free-kick... but United waste it completely and Arsenal have the ball back...
    • 28' It opens up for Toure a little now... he goes for goal! Over the bar, but worth the effort nonetheless...
    • 27' Two early bookings for United - to Hargreaves and Evra - are not ideal... they'll both have to be careful from here on in, and this isn't really the game to be careful in...
    • 26' And a yellow now for Hargreaves... for a late challenge from behind on Hleb... again, deserved.
    • 25' Brilliant turn from Giggs... he tries to play a first time ball through to the impish Tevez... cut out by Toure though...
    • 25' Click on the team stats link above... Arsenal have enjoyed the better of possession so far... but United have been more menacing.
    • 23' GIGGS! Oooh! The veteran lets fly from 25 yards... just over the bar... Almunia looked to have it covered.
    • 22' Rooney gives the ball away cheaply in midfield and Arsenal can break with Adebayor now... but the Togolese striker loses to Ferdinand and United have the ball back...
    • 20' The referee races over the scene of another Evra crime - a trip on Eboue - but there's no card, and the United full-back stays on the field... worrying to have picked up a booking so early on though...
    • 19' The Gunners are yet to get going today...
    • 18' Toure humps the ball upfield... and that's not how Arsenal have been playing of late...
    • 17' United break with Ronaldo on the right... great ball in! GIGGS! Oooh, just wide as Sagna let in go all the way through to the Welshman!
    • 17' Fabregas whips in the resulting free-kick, but Vidic is there to head clear.
    • 16' Evra is the first to go into the book for a lunge on Adebayor... and the Frenchman deserves that one...
    • 16' The Arsenal crowd scream for a penalty as Vidic tugs Hleb's shirt in the box! Goal kick says the ref...
    • 15' Referee Howard Webb has sounded his whistle a little too often up until now... these two sides love attacking... surely he should let the game flow.
    • 14' Fabregas is penalised for a foul on Anderson... the Spaniard's not happy about that one... but United can build once again...
    • 13' United are looking the slightly more composed of the two sides during the opening 10 minutes or so...
    • 12' Rooney's causing a few problems here... Gallas and Toure get in a bit of a muddle, but the linesman's flag is up and again United are foiled by the whistle.
    • 10' Giggs gets down to the byline on the left... he whips a cross over to the near post... TEVEZ! Ooh! Just wide from the little Argentinian!
    • 8' Oooh! Ronaldo leaps to direct a header goalwards! It shaves the post, but the referee's whistle has gone anyway... wouldn't have counted.
    • 7' Rooney wins a corner off Sagna and United will have the chance to put over a decent ball...
    • 4' Lovely play from Hleb to get out of trouble on the right hand side... the ball gets spread out to the other side, where Clichy has a pop from distance! Poor effort from the Frenchman, and the ball rolls tamely wide....
    • 3' Rooney now tries to get onto the end of a long pass through... Toure's there to hack clear...
    • 2' Rosicky immediately tries to get the Arsenal going... the Czech midfielder hares down the left wing... but United, and Ronaldo, manage to mop up and the danger is stamped out...
    • 2' Arsenal in their traditional red shirts, white shorts, while United are sporting all black today.
    • 1' Underway at the Emirates!
    • - Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)
    • - Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Anderson, Hargreaves, Giggs, Tevez, Rooney - Subs: Kuszczak, Saha, Carrick, Nani, O'Shea
    • - Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue, Fabregas, Flamini, Rosicky, Hleb, Adebayor - Subs: Lehmann, Diarra, Eduardo, Silva, Walcott
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of today's top of the table clash from the Emirates!

  • Team Stats

    Arsenal Stats Manchester United
    56% Possession 44%
    19 Shots 12
    6 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 0
    3 Corners 4
    14 Fouls 15
    2 Offsides 4
    1 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    23 Tackles 35
    360 Accurate passes 260
    59 Bad passes 47

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Arsenal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      24 Manuel Almunia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
      5 Kolo Toure 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 32 2 2
      22 Gaël Clichy 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 24 11 3
      3 Bacary Sagna 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 34 0 2
      10 William Gallas 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 26 2 1
      13 Alexander Hleb 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 31 6 1
      16 Mathieu Flamini 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 51 5 1
      4 Francesc Fabregas 1 4 2 3 0 0 0 50 8 6
      27 Emmanuel Eboue 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 29 1 2
      7 Tomas Rosicky 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 37 12 4
      25 Emmanuel Adebayor 0 2 1 3 1 2 0 33 12 1
      9 Eduardo da Silva 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      8 Lassana Diarra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Jens Lehmann 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Theo Walcott 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
      19 Gilberto Silva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
    • Manchester United
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Edwin Van der Sar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 11 0
      5 Rio Ferdinand 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 18 1 2
      3 Patrice Evra 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 24 11 5
      6 Wes Brown 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9 0 5
      15 Nemanja Vidic 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 23 1 2
      4 Owen Hargreaves 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 30 4 5
      8 Anderson Oliveira 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 25 2 7
      7 Cristiano Ronaldo 1 1 1 1 3 1 0 28 0 2
      11 Ryan Giggs 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 27 9 4
      10 Wayne Rooney 0 4 1 2 0 1 0 25 1 1
      32 Carlos Tevez 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 20 5 1
      17 Luís Almeida da Cunha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      16 Michael Carrick 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0
      9 Louis Saha 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 7 0 0
      29 Tomasz Kuszczak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 John O'Shea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1

  • Summary

    • 90'+2 GOAL! INCREDIBLE! GALLAS NETS TO GIVE ARSENAL A POINT AT THE DEATH! An incredible goalmouth scramble ends with Gallas volleying into the back of the net to preserve their unbeaten start to the season!
    • 85' Ooooh! Evra slices a clearance horribly! The ball spoons over the bar by inches! That would have been awful!
    • 82' GOAL! UNITED TAKE THE LEAD THROUGH RONALDO! Saha finds Evra's run behind the Arsenal back line... the Frenchman pulls it back from the byline and Ronaldo is there to slot home! 2-1 now and just eight minutes remaining!
    • 70' ROSICKY! Ooooh! That's a great effrot from the Czech with the outside of his right boot! Wide of the mark though!
    • 69' Rooney lets fly from distance! Comfortable save from Almunia!
    • 68' Brilliant from Rooney to clip the ball through to Evra... the full-back plays the ball back across the face of goal... but Ronaldo's just a yard behind the pace and the chance goes begging!
    • 65' Hleb with a shooting chance at the other end! But his effort is blazed over the bar from the edge of the box!
    • 64' Oooh! Rooney wastes a great chance to put United ahead again! His header goes wide of the mark, when getting it on target seemed easier!
    • 58' Fabregas brings van der Sar into action from a free-kick, right on the edge of the box! The Dutchman gets down on it well though!
    • 48' GOAL! FABREGAS BRINGS ARSENAL BACK ON LEVEL TERMS! Adebayor runs onto a clipped pass through, only to be denied by a decent save from van der Sar! The ball breaks to Sagna who does well to pull the ball back to the unmarked Fabregas on the penalty spot... and the Spaniard coolly slots home into the bottom left hand corner! 1-1!
    • 45'+1 GOAL! UNITED TAKE THE LEAD! And it's Rooney at the near post who gets on the scoresheet! Brown releases Ronaldo on the right... the Portuguese gets there before Clichy to slide a cross over to Rooney! In fact, it looks like Gallas gets the final touch, off his hand... no matter! United in the lead!
    • 36' Ohhh! Fabregas delivers a great ball from a free-kick to the near post where Gallas meets it with a powerful header! Super save from Van der Sar to deny the Gunners an opener!
    • 28' It opens up for Toure a little now... he goes for goal! Over the bar, but worth the effort nonetheless...
    • 23' GIGGS! Oooh! The veteran lets fly from 25 yards... just over the bar... Almunia looked to have it covered.
    • 17' United break with Ronaldo on the right... great ball in! GIGGS! Oooh, just wide as Sagna let in go all the way through to the Welshman!
    • 10' Giggs gets down to the byline on the left... he whips a cross over to the near post... TEVEZ! Ooh! Just wide from the little Argentinian!
    • 8' Oooh! Ronaldo leaps to direct a header goalwards! It shaves the post, but the referee's whistle has gone anyway... wouldn't have counted.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Howard Webb

  • Arsenal

    Manager: Arsene Wenger

    Captain: William Gallas

    On the Field

    • Almunia
    • Sagna
    • Gallas
    • Toure
    • Clichy
    • Eboue
    • Flamini
    • Fabregas
    • Rosicky
    • Hleb
    • Adebayor

    Subs

    • Lehmann
    • Gilberto Silva
    • Diarra
    • Walcott
    • Eduardo

    Injured

    • Senderos
    • van Persie

    Suspended

    None

  • Manchester United

    Manager: Alex Ferguson

    Captain: Rio Ferdinand

    On the Field

    • van der Sar
    • Brown
    • Vidic
    • Ferdinand
    • Evra
    • Ronaldo
    • Hargreaves
    • Anderson
    • Giggs
    • Tevez
    • Rooney

    Subs

    • Carrick
    • O'Shea
    • Saha
    • Kuszczak
    • Nani

    Injured

    • Scholes
    • Neville
    • Silvestre
    • Park
    • Foster

    Suspended

    None