Marouane Fellaini heads late goal as Manchester United beat Arsenal

The problem with football, as Arsène Wenger is rapidly finding out, is that there is never any guarantee of a happy ending. The lingering memory of this game will be the applause that followed Arsenal’s manager down the touchline before the match. Yet Manchester United’s hospitality, on a day when Sir Alex Ferguson made a special presentation to his former bête noire, was never likely to stretch to events on the pitch.

Wenger was clapped in but, by the end, he did not look like a man who cared a great deal about whether he might be afforded the same courtesy on the walk back to the tunnel. His team had conceded a 91st-minute winner and the bottom line for Arsenal, however rich the tributes might be for the departing manager, is that they have now lost six successive top-division away fixtures for the first time since 1966. Arsenal are the only team in England’s four professional divisions who have lost every league match on the road since the turn of the year, and Marouane Fellaini’s late goal means Wenger will not remember his final visit to this stadium with any affection.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/29/manchester-united-arsenal-premier-league-match-report