Match Reaction - man u v ARSENAL!!

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Coquelin is the man. I knew he had this sort of ability. He can pass, good technique and he's a battler. I'm glad he finally got his chance and we had those injuries otherwise we could have lost a very good player.

I thought he was amazing. My MoTM easily, disrupted their attacks, made several crucial interceptions and protected our defence very well despite Chesney trying his hardest to give them a goal.

The only minor problem that still concerns me about him is that I still think he's too short. Man Utd were launching a lot of long balls at our defence (cos that's their main form of attack these days despite spunking 210 million last year) and Coquelin wasn't able to head them away decisively all the time because he wasn't able to out jump Fellani or whichever other clogger was there. This meant that one of Merts or Kos usually had to come from the defence to deal with it which left a gap there ........... which if Man Utd were cleverer and better, could have been exploited.

Ox was really up for this game and it's a shame he picked up and injury. What's going on with these hamstring injuries? The kid only just came back from a layoff and now he's off again. Let's hope he recovers quickly because this kid is hungry for it.

Don't think it was a serious hamstring injury.

He was walking fine after the game when congratulating Welbeck and applauding the support; he would have been on crotches if it was a proper hamstring. It was probably a minor tweak or niggle and I reckon he'll be fine for next week.

And given that we had the likes of Theo and Ramsey on the bench there was no need to take any risks. Got to say with that substitution and Wenger also being wise enough to take off Hector when the Manc scum were trying to get him sent off, Wenger made some top draw substitutions yesterday.