Although 2025 felt that it was the year that Arsenal continued to lose the main players, there is some good news for Michel Arteta. The old Rice Deklan, who is spent 105 million pounds and feels that you will get a deal, returned to life. This was not more clear than Old Trafford, as he saved his team from embarrassment not to score at one end and the most gentle insult to allow Manchester United to score the result on the other hand.
This season started as an attempt for rice. No wonder, given the absolute pregnancy that he put on himself in his first season after leaving West Ham United. Among his new teammates, William Saliba and Jabriel played more minutes in 2023-24, followed and then 690 full minutes in Euro 2024. They may call him a horse in London Colne, but there were valid concerns that fell to the collapse point in the first months of this season.
This has changed since the calendars did. Rice’s influence behind the specified pieces was exactly steadily, as his insulting team was needed. He had ran over the heroes on the heroes last month, and confirmed himself on a difficult night in Nottingham and the PsV Einhoven man to a man to Smitherens in the middle of the week.
It may not come to him normally, but at a time when Arsenal needs everything that the punishment box can get. ARTETA’s vision has always been out of rice because a player from this dynamic can threaten the box while still returning in time to close the opposition meter. You cannot discuss this evaluation at Old Trafford.
On Sunday, the rice was in the midfield mold of all of them knowing very well in this part of the world, and it is the end of Paul Scholes at one end and they deal with Roy Kane on the other.
The end of his shelf showed a real feeling of the eighth number in where it could affect the game more effectively. For 20 minutes of midfield in United, two of Casimiro and Bruno Fernandez were falling towards the six -fold box. Rice seemed to understand this, and so on when Gorian Timber entered the penalty area, England found himself a pocket of space inside the penalty area, enough to pick up a shot against André Onana’s position before he nesting the network.
If Rice does not find a way, it is not easy to know how anyone else will have. For an hour and a quarter of a arsenal wandering in the United system that started to look like a 11 -like after the Bruneo Fernandez’s free kick – from the concept, when the hosts who set off on the table facilitated. Arsenal had all the possession and lands they needed, but it rarely turned it into tremendous pressure on Onana. This is life without any of the first four attackers, at least until Gabriel Martinelli returned from a knee strings per hour.
Lendro Troossard is still reliably reliable, a great touch to photograph itself in the first but impressive half. Ethan Nawanry began brightly, but he is 18 years old. Michel Mirino is not a striker. With Martin Odegaard always a dual or triple team, there was not much that could be done other than trying to cut the balls on the defensive plan of United. Rice got almost one of them in the first half and looked a threat to the back position. Until Bocao Saka returns, there will be more difficult days for Arsenal’s attack if they rely on Rice as a threat of their primary goal, but once the front line is more similar, it can become the eight who raised the boxes a more powerful weapon.
However, rice was not in a mood for personal reinforcement in the final whistle. He knew how close his team was to get rid of the small reward I invited at Old Trafford.
“In the second half, we did things that we did not do throughout the season,” Rice told Sky Sports. “We have been very naive in the past ten minutes and we could easily deliver the game to Man United. They got this individual threat. It was some stupidity from us.
“The second balls, we were trying to dust when the ball was falling. We were losing the contestants, trying to play from the back with patterns that we never did, playing in the press in Manchester United completely. It could have been easily in their favor.”
Rice did not choose specific cases when Arsenal failed. He didn’t need it. When McCill Merino chose his pocket in the 84th minute, United would again find a way to overcome artillery on Old Trafford, regardless of the solid conditions they found.
However, on this occasion, Raya was not called. The danger has already been monitored and all of Holund opened its body up to shoot and opened a rice path to install one of those telescopes, and hit the ball to safety.
“If I would later interact at a later time, Holund put it at the back of the network,” he said. “He showed me a little ball, and it is clear that with the long legs that I managed to circumvent. It could have been a possible penalty and red. It was 50-50.”
At each end, Rice has proven to be Arsenal savior. This is almost the first time that it was the case but perhaps the first in some time. Only when his team needs it, Rice returned to the highest level. It is one that can match a few others.