The Gunners took the lead midway through the first half as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain weaved his way through the United defence before teeing up Nacho Monreal to coolly slot his close-range shot past a diving David de Gea and into the bottom corner. It did not take long for the hosts to level matters and Wayne Rooney did the damage as he directed Angel di Maria's beautiful cross into the back of the net via a well-timed header. '(We tried) to be on the front foot from the start and close them down, play with a high pace and I felt that we did that well.'
Di Maria received two bookings in quick succession as he was first shown a yellow card for diving and then was sent off after grabbing at referee Michael Oliver's shoulder in protest with just under 15 minutes left.
'We have played Bradford before, we know about that but let's enjoy tonight.
'I feel we played a good game tonight from the start and we deserved to win the game.'
Wenger was full of praise for Welbeck, who left his boyhood club for north London last summer, and provided the killer
touch tonight after a blunder from Antonio Valencia.
The manager said: 'I believe he is just happy to score. He worked very hard today and he was rewarded by a good goal.'
The Gunners went to Old Trafford on the back of a fine run in the Barclays Premier League, with seven wins in the last eight games putting them third, now a point ahead of United and only four behind Manchester City.
culled from daily mail uk
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