Things had been fine when the starting lineups were introduced, but less than ten minutes into the match, it began to snow—and it was coming down hard.
It was clearly the Premier League, yet it felt like a Bundesliga snow match.
"We can see that it has started snowing at the stadium."
"Yes, this will bring a degree of uncertainty to the match."
Normally, rainy and snowy conditions favored a counterattacking Manchester United side.
But since the start of this season, things had become slightly different.
Manchester United's squad advantage was simply too obvious; they practically crushed every other team in the league.
When the advantage was great enough, any unexpected factor benefited the weaker side more!
Mikel Arteta, wouldn't you agree?
Smack!
B. Fee took a speculative shot from the left, and the ball fell to Cristiano Ronaldo.
"Wow!!!"
"What the fuck!"
Mikel Arteta clutched his head.
Look at Manchester United's play here!
Cristiano Ronaldo received the ball in the middle of the attacking half and looked incredibly composed.
He showed no hurry at all, controlling the ball before taking a simple look around.
Mohamed Elneny closed in, and Cristiano Ronaldo immediately engaged in a physical battle with Arsenal's defender.
Bang!
Though he was getting on in years, Cristiano Ronaldo's physicality clearly had no obvious issues.
He passed back to de Jong!
De Jong gave it to Ousmane Dembélé!
Ousmane Dembélé carried the ball toward the byline.
He was preparing to take on Nuno Tavares one-on-one!
A change of pace...
Smack!
He cut it back with a low pass.
With Cristiano Ronaldo orchestrating things through the middle, Manchester United successfully got the ball to Tang Ye in the central area.
"Oh!!!"
Something was about to happen!
No one had expected Arsenal's defensive setup against Tang Ye to be dismantled