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Arsène Wenger said there ended up 'special circumstances' at the rear of the eight-two defeat. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Pictures

First and second in the Premier League, however to drop a position, and the architects of a day of ritual humiliation for north London by an aggregate scoreline of 13-three. There is added vigour to the Manchester swagger.
Town developed the day's first assertion of intent with an emphatic five-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur in which Edin Dzeko, so often maligned final season, scored 4 occasions for the richest club on the planet. United responded to their neighborhood rivals' declaration as they often do, putting them in the shade and Arsène Wenger below additional scrutiny with an outstanding eight-two rout of Arsenal. It was Arsenal's heaviest defeat given that 1896, when Loughborough City inflicted a record eight- damage, United's biggest victory given that an eight-one win at Nottingham Forest in 1999 and their greatest at Old Trafford considering that routing Ipswich Town 9- in 1995. It was a end result that lifted the query to Wenger of whether or not he would take into account his position at the club after 15 a long time.
"No, because I come to feel it was below extremely special circumstances," the Arsenal manager replied, pointing out that 8 senior players ended up absent by way of damage or suspension and that 3 video games into a new year, one particular that has brought Champions League football to the Emirates Stadium, is an indecent time for such a debate.
"It is a terribly agonizing defeat but I will not compare regardless of whether it is the most unpleasant of all.It is agonizing and that is it. We have played a few league games and two Champions League games and it is at the stop of a season when you can make a balanced determination. Of training course this hurts, it was humiliating, but you could see we had not recovered bodily from Wednesday night time [when Arsenal defeat Udinese], we had 8 players out, they had class and they punished us."
Arsenal finished with no a full complement of people for the 3rd league recreation in succession, the uncooked right-back again Carl Jenkinson dismissed for a 2nd bookable offence in the 77th minute, and Sir Alex Ferguson was virtually patronising in his sympathy. The United manager mentioned: "We scored some amazing ambitions. We could have scored more but you will not want to score far more in opposition to a weakened crew like that."
Wayne Rooney scored the sixth hat?trick of his United job to just take his total for the club to 152 goals, beyond Paul Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy. "A good deal of my milestones have occur against Arsenal," mentioned the England striker. "My initial ever aim for Everton was from them, so was my very first Premier League aim for Manchester United and now the 150th has occur from them. It is even now extremely early in the period but it was an incredible functionality from us."
Wenger claimed "it was not an 8-two recreation" and insisted he is not totally culpable for Arsenal's struggles in the transfer marketplace. "We have the money if we can find people who can reinforce our group but I am not the only one particular operating on that at Arsenal. We have twenty individuals operating on that, but today we had also numerous people missing. We didn't have the squad to cope. We have not identified the answers. It is challenging to find excuses soon after a recreation like that but we are at the rear of the other clubs in phrases of wages."
The Arsenal supervisor confirmed he is near to signing the Monaco ahead Park Chu-Younger and denied reviews he is interested in the Evertonmidfielder Mikel Arteta. As for improved criticism of his dealing with of the club, Wenger explained: "I am in a public work and I have to take that. The gamers we have sold are people I introduced to the club. You know me effectively and really should give me a lot more time prior to declaring, 'Have I have obtained it right?' We ended up inadequate defensively and we collapsed much more physically than mentally."
Samir Nasri created an impressive debut in City's win and believes the two Manchester clubs have set an early common. "I had a excellent game but the most critical point is we won five-1 and sent out a signal to other clubs," he explained. "This is just the start of the season, it is critical to maintain our self-assurance, but I am convinced we have a wonderful staff right here and can win issues," he explained.