Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane was not pleased with Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta's comments after his side's defeat against the Red Devils. United secured a 3-1 win over the Gunners thanks to a brace by Marcus Rashford and a goal on debut from summer arrival Antony.
Arteta, meanwhile, once again questioned the lack of consistency in referring decisions in the Premier League during his post-game interview. His team had the ball in the back of the net in the first half, but the goal was ruled out due to a foul on Christian Eriksen by Martin Odegaard in the build-up.
The Arsenal boss' comments did not go down well with Keane. The former Manchester United skipper was fed up with Arteta's excuses and expected the Spaniard to give some credit to the opposition as well.
Keane was quoted as saying (via The Mirror):
"I'm fed up of all their excuses. I'm serious. Arteta gets interviewed after the game, he's a sore loser, like us all. He's got to give a little bit of credit to Man United but he never does."
He added:
"Every time he loses a game it's all about what the opposition didn't do properly or the officials. Stop making excuses. You lost the game 3-1, you've done okay. Take your plaudits but give me the points any day of the week."
The disallowed goal eventually played a part in proceedings as a more confident United took the lead in the first half through Antony.
By the end of the match, Manchester United had ended Arsenal's winning start to the new season. The Gunners finally lost a game in the Premier League following a run of five consecutive victories.
Erik ten Hag's side, meanwhile, secured their fourth straight win and are now just three points behind Arsenal. They have picked up 12 points from their opening six outings.
Manchester United are now just one point outside the top four following their 3-1 win over Arsenal
Manchester United are also just a point behind fourth-placed Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League table. The Seagulls defeated Ten Hag's troops 2-1 in the opening game of the new season, after which United suffered a 4-0 defeat at Brentford.
However, the Red Devils' winning run has lifted them above the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool in the Premier League standings.
Both Manchester United and Arsenal will be pleased with their start to the new Premier League season. The two English heavyweights will be looking to secure UEFA Champions League qualification this time around after missing out last season.
AbdullahGurta
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come and be a manager, we know what kind of managers are man utd legends Neville, Scholes and Keane all are rubbish and failed to win two matches yet they speak as they are experts.
Madcap_237
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lol
At ur own self
papabrains
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Go do better research on Arteta's comments rather than jumping on here without anything in tht Coconut head of urs
lol
bolaji99
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That is why arsenal will still remain childish team for life because if they lost the match they will rather blame referee or var anytime rather than accept defeat and focus on how to get back to their winning mentality, but for their mind now they claim they are better side which this can lead dem to another defeat in next game
ChristianReis
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Arteta is a clown...
Layabors
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By the grace of the Almighty one Keene you are going to eat your words.
Seobcnptu
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Roy Kean's comments are misguided. He says Arteta didn't give credit to Man U? But he did, when he said our certain area need to improve because if you don't take your chances against big players they punish you. Is that not conceding that Man u was good at doing what matters most. I dont know what this old man smokes.
mwambatom
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arteta is a manager and keane is noise maker he knows nothing about managing if he knows why is he not man u coach.just a big mouth responding to comments made by a manager.let him coach one team in EPL then he will understand what it takes to be a coach.
Rucilmos
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Arteta is too stingy for refusing signing Lisandro Martinez and raphinha , paqueta, yoriteleman
what are saying? Martinez decided by himself and I'm happy we signed zinchenko over him, by the way how many strikers as bullied him this few games, has any strikers bullied Gabriel or saliba so far, watch what you're saying, those guys played good football just that they were unlucky
Dev_ray
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after all, they will soon come to Emirates
Yehudi
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like 2004?
Patrick can take Roy even now[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
zatbdkntz
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why didn't they score more goals, even if they gave them that goal is still 3:2 right man u still win
eefylyn
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cry more your former legend Gerrard team is the next😭😭
K'anyi na ele
pauceimnrz
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No manager in his situation will not complain about the officials and it is not the first nor second or third that officials have ruled Arsenal games. We have learned some lessons from the match but do not talk like he was making up stories.
Am not a man United fan so i don't understand you guys..Are guys blind or emotions of being your team has taken over your reasoning...Odegard pushed erikseen of the ball and if not erikseen will stil be on the ball..This not shoulder to shoulder but real pushing off..Na wao
Zubbyempire22
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Roy Keane you chat too much Arsenal never go to man u home and get a fair refereeing and that's the truth
Go sit down...Give credit to any team that beat you and stop making excuses
galaukwu
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papabrains
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do you read Arteta's comment? Shut up and don't make any conclusion...
You should rather shut up!
Madcap_237
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Patrick viera is better than Arteta no cap
As A Player YES As A Manager NO
Madcap_237
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that's why man United is the best club in premier league.....we never blame other clubs for our losses but ourselves
B4 u speak make sure u hv it all intact upstairs. Where did he blame Man U??? Chaii mumu dem too plenty 4 dis app
Madcap_237
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Arteta is too stingy for refusing signing Lisandro Martinez and raphinha , paqueta, yoriteleman
1st of all He didn't refuse to sign all those players. Most of em chose different clubs and others made demands in their contracts tht we were nt willing to submit to And 2nd of all Go and research the meaning of "Stingy" b4 using it in just any kinda context
Madcap_237
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The excuses were too many, honestly! Accept that, you've lost to a better side & move on, simple...Where from all those hallucinations!!
Go do better research on Arteta's comments rather than jumping on here without anything in tht Coconut head of urs
Madcap_237
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Man United after two games saw there were a lot of position deficiencies & they did the needful by way of recruiting proactive players to fiill in those voids...I never heard chastizing any team for their defeats...Why can't Arteta toe same line by way of tasking his side to accept the failure & encourage his men to do more in their subsequent games....
Go back n read the whole article rather than jumping in the comments to say dumb stuff
Madcap_237
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the var doesn't favour any team it's always painfull if not in your favor.
I'm glad u urself understand If it was United in our shoes they wld do the exact same thing. It's just part of the emotions VAR puts EPL teams in
seid150
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that's why man United is the best club in premier league.....we never blame other clubs for our losses but ourselves
go and read the news again maybe u understand
Utd4life
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Arteta should call Vieira....he'll sort Roy out
like 2004?
1ngram4
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ManU fans are everywhere insulting people over their view, beating Arsenal has made u to win the Premier league league right, no one is blaming ur team but var that got it wrong, FA TEAM
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And sitting top after just 5 matches made Arsenal PL winners right??.. Lol they got ahead of themselves talking about how they were going to trash United, cause they got results against bottom 10 teams and below
Yizabimpr
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Roy Keane you chat too much Arsenal never go to man u home and get a fair refereeing and that's the truth
jozcmnpty
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fuhcdirz
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Man United after two games saw there were a lot of position deficiencies & they did the needful by way of recruiting proactive players to fiill in those voids...I never heard chastizing any team for their defeats...Why can't Arteta toe same line by way of tasking his side to accept the failure & encourage his men to do more in their subsequent games....
do you read Arteta's comment? Shut up and don't make any conclusion...
jozcmnpty
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I really like what he said no excuses move on n praise d team dat u lost to n see how to improve not blame n always give excuses
neither Roy Keane near Arteta as a coach, at least in one and a half year he won FA Cup and a community Shield, Roy never won a tomato cup with the little spell as a coach
bowlmopyz
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Roy is not serious in life yeah indeed how,where this is foul foolish comment on our coach
jozcmnpty
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ManU fans are everywhere insulting people over their view, beating Arsenal has made u to win the Premier league league right, no one is blaming ur team but var that got it wrong, FA TEAM
emmaunited
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Anthony's debute ✔ Anthony's debute goal✔ B.Fernandez underrated pass✔ Erickson's unselfish pass✔ United back four✔ Both teams really played superbly, but arsenal lacked composure and maturity. Arteta also killed the game with those changes because there was still time, and the current squad were still doing quite well. To me, I believe he should have relaxed till 80th minutes maybe they could have salvaged a point cos they pressed really well.
Yehudi
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Arteta should call Vieira....he'll sort Roy out
jozcmnpty
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I really like what he said no excuses move on n praise d team dat u lost to n see how to improve not blame n always give excuses
he was a failure as a coach, and was fired, pundit job is a free money making job, so he's free to say whatever...
omo1-2
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Most of you don't know how to play football also don't know how to watch if what happened to Ericsson was inside the box that's straight penalty once you raise your hands up on your fellow player no two-ways about it its automatically out of football it's now wrestling
in that case arsenal suppose to have one penalty.
Dicdeprtyz
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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted that while his side put in a good performance, they need to improve in certain areas. He told the club's official website: “We have to learn from that. We lacked the discipline that is necessary in certain areas of the pitch against these world-class players to prevent certain spaces, because overall when you look at the performance and the way we played, obviously the result should’ve been very, very different.” Haters everywhere but we must make it. Was his complaint about the officials not tangible? Why talk only in his comments on officials and forget the second part?
pabaeryz
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I can predict bro that in all big games this season at old Trafford Man united will always get decisions go their way first was a clear offside against Liverpool now a clear goal disallowed against Arsenal the question is who's next.
cry more your former legend Gerrard team is the next😭😭
Dicdeprtyz
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No manager in his situation will not complain about the officials and it is not the first nor second or third that officials have ruled Arsenal games. We have learned some lessons from the match but do not talk like he was making up stories.
kali0086
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the var doesn't favour any team it's always painfull if not in your favor.
bopailms
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Roy he has one problem he just hate Arteta but inside his heart he knows the referee was unfair to arsenal
4wat?
eefylyn
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This season will be very interesting, you cannot even predict ..
I can predict bro that in all big games this season at old Trafford Man united will always get decisions go their way first was a clear offside against Liverpool now a clear goal disallowed against Arsenal the question is who's next.
eefylyn
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Had the first goal arsenal scored not overuled the results could've been different.
Kimdi258
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Always learn to accept defeats because it’s the only way to move forward.
papabrains
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Man United after two games saw there were a lot of position deficiencies & they did the needful by way of recruiting proactive players to fiill in those voids...I never heard chastizing any team for their defeats...Why can't Arteta toe same line by way of tasking his side to accept the failure & encourage his men to do more in their subsequent games....
papabrains
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The excuses were too many, honestly! Accept that, you've lost to a better side & move on, simple...Where from all those hallucinations!!
waacdkors
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Most of you don't know how to play football also don't know how to watch if what happened to Ericsson was inside the box that's straight penalty once you raise your hands up on your fellow player no two-ways about it its automatically out of football it's now wrestling
kezza12603
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it was a soft disallowed goal a d rashford goal should hv been looked in to
ngl i agree but confused af about rashford first goal was perfect then second was clear as day onside
Kunlespur2
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Arteta is too stingy for refusing signing Lisandro Martinez and raphinha , paqueta, yoriteleman
He didn’t refused to sing Martinez,in fact Arsenal wanted Martinez, Martinez chose man utd.