{"id":384173,"date":"2026-01-22T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:03:08","slug":"man-utd-2008-v-arsenal-2026-who-would-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384173\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd 2008 v Arsenal 2026 – who would win?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just look at United’s attack.<\/p>\n

You have got Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2008 and would go on to be one of the greatest players of all time.<\/p>\n

Then Rooney, the all-time top goalscorer for United and England.<\/p>\n

And, while Carlos Tevez’s time at Old Trafford was not prolific, he scored 14 Premier League goals in 2007-08.<\/p>\n

It was a forward line to fear. Up to this stage of the season, Ronaldo had scored 22 goals, Tevez 12 and Rooney nine.<\/p>\n

Who do Arsenal<\/a> have? Viktor Gyokeres, a striker who may go on to excel but, so far, has not lived up to his \u00a355m transfer fee.<\/p>\n

Bukayo Saka is clearly a world-class player out wide. But it is hard to make a case for Gabriel Martinelli, Leandro Trossard or Noni Madueke.<\/p>\n

Gyokeres and Martinelli have nine goals this season, with Saka and Trossard on seven.<\/p>\n

In midfield Declan Rice has to be considered one of the best in the world today, playing alongside Martin Odegaard and Martin Zubimendi.<\/p>\n

But Owen Hargreaves, Michael Carrick and Paul Scholes were superb for Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n

Did we mention Ryan Giggs came off the bench in the Champions League final too? It is United ’08, no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just look at United’s attack. You have got Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2008 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-384173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}