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FT SCORE - LATE DRAMA TAINTS OLD TRAFFORD FT: Man Utd 0 Arsenal 0 Unsavoury end to the game. Keown stupidly jumped into van Nistelrooy and then Lauren pushes him and starts a whole new brawl. The managers and coaching staff come on to separate them. Well, what a finale! Not a great game and probably a fair result. Hope you enjoyed the coverage. Join us for more later in the week. 93 mins: VAN NISTELROOY HITS THE BAR!!! The Dutchman smashes it off the underside of the bar with Lehmann hopelessly beaten. What drama after so much tedium! 92 mins: PENALTY TO UNITED!!! Neville crosses and Keown pushes and pulls Forlan who falls to the ground. It looks a penalty to me. 90 mins: Three minutes of added time. 90 mins: Edu pings in a 30-yard free-kick but Howard watches it drift over. That's the first shot on goal since the 57th minute. Fortune is the latest player to go in the book for fouling Parlour. 87 mins: Well, this one's hotting up. Neville clatters into Cole in a 50-50 tackle and leaves the full-back in a heap. 84 mins: Now Ljungberg crashes to the floor and Ronaldo is shown the yellow card. This largely dull game has suddenly sprung into life. Ljungberg limps off. 83 mins: Arsenal substitution: Bergkamp is replaced by Edu. 79 mins: VIEIRA IS SENT-OFF!!! Van Nistelrooy jumped into Vieira who, when on the ground, lashes out with his right boot. Although he doesn't make contact, that's not the point as the intent was to injure the Dutch striker, who is booked, presumably for the original foul. 78 mins: Vieira is booked for repetitive offending. While all that's going on Bergkamp needs treatment and hobbles off. 76 mins: United substitution: Forlan replaces O'Shea. 75 mins: Incisive stuff from Arsenal. Henry to Bergkamp, one touch and Vieira is so nearly put in, but Howard picks up. 72 mins: There's a lengthy break in the game as Fortune gets some treatment. After a healthy dose of the magic sponge he returns to the fray. 65 mins: Van Nistelrooy so nearly latches onto a pacey diagonal pass. Still not a great deal of goal-mouth action. This one's heading for a goalless draw. There, that should ensure some goals. 61 mins: Keown is booked for fouling Fortune in a stupid area. Fortune was going nowhere - Keown should know better. 57 mins: Ooooh what a chance for United. Van Nistelrooy gets in behind from a throw-in, cuts inside Toure but stubs the shot somewhat straight at Lehmann with an irate Giggs unmarked on the penalty spot. 54 mins: Toure clobbers van Nistelrooy from behind and goes into the book. 53 mins: Ronaldo wastes a decent position by shooting from an acute angle on the right. Lehmann gathers easily and Ronaldo is slated by his team-mates. 50 mins: Arsenal have started well in this half and Gilberto's deflected shot earns them a corner which is ultimately wasted. 47 mins: Gilberto threads a fine ball through to Ljungberg who has G Neville really struggling for pace. Neville then stumbles and brings down the Swede but no foul is awarded and rightly so. 46 mins: No changes to either side. Let's hope for a touch more action in the second half. HALF TIME Well, that was a bit of an anti-climax. All the hype suggested something a bit more exciting than that. United have been ever so slightly better, but there's little to report. Come back in 15. 46 mins: Ronaldo cuts inside but gets no power in his shot. 45 mins: One added minute. 39 mins: United appeal for hands against Cole but referee Bennett claims it was ball to hand and awards a corner instead which Lehmann flaps at and is lucky to get away with. 34 mins: Bergkamp scews a right-footed shot horribly wide. Arsenal have done very little so far. 33 mins: Ronaldo swings in a delightful cross which just eludes van Nistelrooy. The loose ball falls to Fortune who can't quite get his shot away. 29 mins: G Neville spears in a diagonal cross from the right and Fortune heads downwards only for Lehmann to plunge rather uncomfortably onto the ball by his goal-line. 25 mins: Typically flowing move from Arsenal. Cole is fed by Henry and charges towards the penalty area. Faced with little option, he goes for a low shot into the far corner only to miss the target by a yard. 22 mins: Bad and extremely late tackle by Keane on Lauren. That's the most obvious booking ever. Even in the 60s that would have been a yellow card. 20 mins: Another foul on Ronaldo leads to another Giggs free-kick to the back post. Lehmann mis-judges it and van Nistelrooy wastefully heads over from an acute angle. 15 mins: Yeah, action at last. Giggs takes the resulting free-kick and swings it towards the far post. Nobody gets anywhere near it, including Lehmann, and the ball deflects off the post to safety. 14 mins: Well this really is surprising. No shots on goal yet though Gilberto does get in the first foul on Ronaldo. Plenty more of those today I should expect. 9 mins: This is yet to catch fire. No goal-mouth incident at all so far. 5 mins: After a quiet start from the players - not the fans - Ronaldo showcases his skills for the first time by skinning Cole and just failing to connect with van Nistelrooy. 1 min: We're off! Obviously it's a sell-out and remember the winners go top of the Premiership. Here come the teams. Manchester Utd: Howard, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Silvestre, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Keane, Phil Neville, Fortune, Giggs, van Nistelrooy. Subs: Carroll, Butt, Djemba-Djemba, Forlan, Fletcher. Arsenal: Lehmann, Lauren, Toure, Keown, Cole, Parlour, Vieira, Silva, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Henry. Subs: Stack, Pires, Wiltord, Edu, Cygan. 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