Man Utd 2-1 Arsenal. The referee shining again...

Unfortunately he didn't get a chance to come off the bench today. Man Utd owes him chances as he is truly a gem. Sir Alex almost forgot him but now he began to get opportunities again. RVP seems to be always in the squad. Chicharito is better than RVP at shooting. But RVP is more famous and Sir Alex seems to think that RVP have tactic usage while Chicharito is only a shooter. As far as I am concerned Man Utd doesn't worth him in fact.

The young fella has had some good games recently, I think he is being saved for cup games at the moment and maybe the odd second half sub

Yes, I feel sorry for these 'impact' players but I can understand why he is behind Rooney and RVP to start the game. I hope we see more of Hernandez as he is a terrific little player - I just hope he does not become disillusioned like Berbatov did. He would surely be an automatic starter at most clubs in world football.

Yes, Walcott was rested because of that only. But I am not sure how much of trials can we give Giroud as he has been around for matches and does not seem to be hitting the target. I do not mind a striker not scoring the goals as long as he can work the goalkeeper, but I do not see even that with Giroud at this moment. On the other hand, your comment on Podolski is very interesting. I am not sure that Arsenal has a player of the kind of Klose who is strong in the box with headers. But I do get the point of your comment and it might then be something for Wenger to see if Walcott and Podolski can work together up front. Cheers! Ram

I agree with that. Defoe didn't score any goals in the 3-2 match against Man Utd. But his running attracted one Man Utd player and successfully lead the defender to another side, which helped 2 goals from Hotspur. Although Defoe didn't score in that match, I think that he also gave an incredible performance in that match. They only game in which Giroud performed incredibly is the match against West Ham. And in fact in that match against Reading, he also performed well. But in other games he played terribly, especially he missed some key chances like the one against Chelsea. In France he need 7 shots per goal. That's a just-so-so performance. He's good at running before the goal but when Arsenal is defending it's not useful at all.

For Wolcott, it might because that he just played 120 minutes against Reading. But I still support that Giroud and Podolski should start in the game. Giroud could not goal without the support of the middle fielder and the wingers. But he is truly a good striker although he is not so efficiently. But maybe that Wenger should consider not to let Giroud and Podolski play together. You could see that in the German National Team when Gomez is the striker, Podolski will be missing in the game. And when Klose is the forward, Podolski could play incredibly. Giroud is better at cooperating but mainly he is the in the similar style of Gomez. And with Giroud, you need someone to pass the ball to him. Arsenal need more accurate long pass for Giroud. Only in the game against West Ham, Giroud performs well. Maybe it's the problem that Giroud and Podolski are not compatible in their playing style? And in addition, Wenger is not good at using strong strikers. Bendtner was not used well in Arsenal and Bendtner was once even moved to the position of the winger. How could Wenger move such a tall, strong and slow striker to the position of winger? It's strange. Bendtner is not bad. He might not be worse than Giroud but Wenger could not use him correctly. Maybe Giroud is in the same situation. And Wenger truly made a lot of bad decisions to move players from the center to the sides.