Alan Shearer has predicted that Arsenal will triumph over Manchester United in their upcoming clash at Old Trafford today. The Gunners are coming off a resounding 7-1 victory against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Tuesday, while United managed only a 1-1 draw with Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday.
Given Arsenal‘s impressive midweek performance and United’s ongoing struggles, Shearer is confident that the Gunners will emerge victorious.
“Because Arsenal had it so easy the other night, and Man United didn’t while having their struggles, I’m going to go for an away win to Arsenal,” he told the Metro.
Meanwhile, Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has expressed confidence ahead of the match, following their huge win over PSV. “It’s always tough when we play them,” Odegaard admitted.
“I don’t think they are where they want to be in the table but we know the qualities they have to win the game, they have a lot of individual quality, and when they click as a team it’s challenging to play them, so it’s a great challenge for us.
“We have to take the good feeling now into Sunday and hopefully we can do more of that. They’re not where they want to be in the table and it’s a big club and it’s been struggling a little bit but as I said before we know the quality they have when they’re on it.”
He continued: “A lot of good individual players that we have to be ready for so we go there to win, we’re Arsenal and we’re not scared to go there to win so that’s it. We have to do our job, we can only hope and win our games, then we will see what happens.
“Obviously we’ve put ourselves in a difficult position at the moment but we have to keep going, we have to try and win every time we play and we will see what happens with Liverpool, but I think the main thing is to focus on us and we can win the games.
“We will fight until the end, I think that’s the mindset of everyone, we’ve been fighting three years in a row for the title and a few years back we were leading with a lot of points and we ended second, so in football everything is possible, the main thing is just to keep going and keep working hard and day-by-day get better and win the games and we’ll see.”
This article originally appeared on The Mirror.
