Arsenal 2-1 Manchester United
Despite only being 6 points behind the league leaders Arsenal were in crisis and according to some Wenger should be replaced. A strange situation for such a successful manager to be in, especially one who can count well enough to know that 6 points doesn’t make you out of touch. The problem all the teams have is can anyone take points off Chelsea and Liverpool?
The game itself was marked by some pretty lousy refereeing, Howard Web did his best to not give any penalties, despite there being a possibility of at least 3. United were undone by Rooney having a bad day at the office and a real lack of quality in central midfield. Rooney spent the first half shooting wide and for the second when he was shoved to the left as provider some of his crosses left a lot to be desired. Ronaldo, supposedly the best player in the world and looking nothing of the sort, missed some chances and his assists were not the standard they should have been. Berbatov doesn’t look like 32 million well spent and for the cost of Man Us attack verses the comparatively weak Arsenal defence they looked short of being the best.
Arsenal played thier usual game and Nasri providing more attacking bite than they have produced for some time. Wenger may know, but they still don’t look that convincing either.
Fergason has a real problem in that he has seemingly made no provision for replacing Giggs or Scholes, or if he has none of the supposed replacements look up to thier high standard. That 32 million would have been better spent on a decent central midfielder, Deco springs to mind.