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A week on from dominating City in the Manchester derby, Michael Carrick\u2019s dream start as United boss continued thanks to Matheus Cunha\u2019s stunning later winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cA really painful one,\u201d said Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut now it is time to be very close to those players that have given us so much joy and support them because we all want to win.\u201d <\/p>\n
A Lisandro Martinez own goal put Arsenal in front but the Red Devils quickly levelled when Bryan Mbeumo pounced on an error by Martin Zubimendi.<\/p>\n
Manchester United’s Matheus Cunha celebrates scoring their side’s third goal of the game (Mike Egerton\/PA via AP)Source: AP<\/p>\n
Patrick Dorgu\u2019s brilliant strike put the visitors in front early in the second half.<\/p>\n
Not for the first time this season, despite their lofty league position, Arsenal were blunt as an attacking force from open play.<\/p>\n
But they could rely on their prowess from set pieces to equalise when Mikel Merino forced in a corner on 84 minutes.<\/p>\n
Just moments later Cunha took aim from outside the box and delivered a telling blow to the Gunners\u2019 hopes of a first league title in 22 years.<\/p>\n
Victory also propelled United into the top four to boost their chances of Champions League football next season for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo come here and score three goals in the manner we did, going one down, coming back, then the setback, and still keeping going,\u201d said Carrick. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a huge moment for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
CHELSEA INFLICT MORE PAIN ON PALACE<\/p>\n
Villa kept their outside shot at a first league title since 1981 alive with their first victory at St. James\u2019 Park for 21 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are competing against Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham… Wow, the power they have!\u201d Emery said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut we are competing and we are there.\u201d <\/p>\n
Emiliano Buendia\u2019s brilliant strike from outside the box opened the scoring before Ollie Watkins secured victory when the England international headed in Lucas Digne\u2019s cross two minutes from time.<\/p>\n
Newcastle slip to ninth but still only four points outside the top five, which will likely be enough for a place in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Reds cop late loss as Spurs only draw | 02:33<\/p>\n
Chelsea piled more pain on Crystal Palace with a 3-1 win at Selhurst Park. Oliver Glasner promised to do his best to turn around a miserable run for the Eagles despite announcing he will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Palace are now winless in 11 games and never recovered after a wayward back-pass from Jaydee Canvot freed Estevao to sprint clear and fire in Chelsea\u2019s opener on 34 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian then set up compatriot Joao Pedro to gallop in behind the Palace defence and double the Blues\u2019 advantage just after half-time.<\/p>\n
Enzo Fernandez\u2019s penalty rounded off a fourth win in five games for Liam Rosenior since he took charge at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest gave their survival chances a huge boost by inflicting just a second home defeat of the season on Brentford.<\/p>\n
Forest moved five points clear of the drop zone with a 2-0 win in west London thanks to goals from Igor Jesus and Taiwo Awoniyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United inflicted Arsenal\u2019s first home defeat of the season in a 3-2 thriller to blow the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2620,64,63,228001,6257,17057,70375,1208,77918,2057,6231,6234,198887,53050,47573,107359,228002,2022,11999,6255,6235,32191,211654,93878,8316,3583,48085,26505,1614,228004,6228,6229,85,228005,26124,22294,228003,228000,3586,6237],"class_list":["post-437348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brilliant-strike","tag-champions-league","tag-city-of-manchester","tag-club-league-logos","tag-england","tag-enzo-fernandez","tag-europe","tag-fixture-lists","tag-football-match","tag-home-defeat","tag-igor-jesus","tag-james","tag-lisandro-martinez","tag-lofty-league-position","tag-london","tag-manchester-city-football-club","tag-manchester-united-football-club","tag-martin-zubimendi","tag-matheus-cunha","tag-michael-carrick","tag-mike-egerton","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-northern-europe","tag-oliver-glasner","tag-ollie-watkins","tag-premier-league","tag-reds-cop","tag-single-club-league-player-publications","tag-social-media-in-match","tag-sports","tag-survival-chances","tag-title-chances","tag-title-race","tag-title-race-open","tag-torrid-nights","tag-united-kingdom","tag-video-emulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}