By Isyaku Ibrahim
It will be a meeting of former premier league king pins as Manchester United meet Arsenal today
The cracker which is in continuation of Barclay premier league will hold at Old Trafford as early as four thirty local time
Without mincing word, the tie will reignite the existing rivalry between the two sides which started since the days of Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Winger likewise that of captain Roy Keane and Patrick viera chattering in the dressing room if one could recall
Both teams will not wish to lose the vital points at stake in view of their importance to their standing on the league table
While Manchester United who were defeated by lowly rated Crystal Palace by four unreplied goals on Monday night want the points with a view to facilitating their qualification to either Euros or Conference league and above all ease the tension on coach Erik Ten Hag, on the other hand Arsenal need them as it will help them in no small measure in guaranteeing their effort in lifting the league for first time in a decade especially as their closest rivals Manchester City have crushed Fulham of London
Thus the pressure will definitely be on Arsenal as they have now been dropped to the second position by the virtue of victory of the defending Champions against the Marco Silva’s side at Craven Cottage which they will absolutely not like
The match will surely be hard to predict despite the fact that bunch of the United’s players have been injured which may gave the visitors an upper hand but on the other way round, this is baseless as the Old Trafford side usually rise to occasion whenever they are meeting Arsenal
From their first meeting during the olden days to date, the Manchester team have defeated their London foes on Ninety nine time the biggest of which was the eight goals to two white washing during the days of Sir Alex and arsene Wenger at Old Trafford
The question here is will it be a pay back time or a repeat of what happened in the past?
Unequivocally, this question will be pretty difficult to answer in view of the intricacy whenever the two sides are playing
But from my assumption, the margin at the end of the game not be wide
During the first leg, it was three goals to one against United at Emirate
