Arsenal got their Premier League title tilt off to a winning start as they earned a narrow victory over Ruben Amorim’s new-look Manchester United team at Old Trafford.
Sunday’s match may have been Arsenal’s first of the new season, but Mikel Arteta’s team picked up where they left off in 2024-25 as a set-piece goal settled the result in their favour.
It arrived in the 13th minute when Altay Bayindir flapped at a Declan Rice corner, giving Riccardo Calafiori the chance to nod in from point-blank range at the back post.
While United huffed and puffed, with their expensively-assembled forward line looking a threat at times, they could find no way past Arsenal’s famously miserly defence.
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