Man Utd 1 - 0 Arsenal

Yesterday, we were meant to see the top two teams in England battle it out to be top of the league.

We were meant to see bloodthirsty hunger, a never say die attitude, an epic match on a grand occasion.

Arshavin, Nasri, Van Persie, Nani and Rooney.

The best players in the league, head to head.

The fact is though, none of this materialised.

Arsenal and Man United were both poor and the home team can consider themselves lucky to have stolen the win, it was a match that deserved nothing more than a draw.

It's made even sadder by the way I left the comfort of my own laptop stream and made a late dash to a pals house to watch the match in HD. The best part of the two hours I spent there were the pringles (or maybe the popcorn) and pitifully the loudest cheer was that which accompanied Rooneys disastrous penalty attempt. Why did he run up as if heplanned to run in a circle? Was he playing imaginary duck duck goose and inconveniently found a ball in the way which he hastened to clear out of the way? We shall never know.

This is an Arsenal blog, so I will now talk about them - however much I don't actually want to because its depressing.

Arsenals most solid player in my opinion was Szczesny and even he messed up a few a kicks - still a good prospect.

Clichy made too many mistakes. Gibbs really needs to stay fit.

Koscielny and Squillaci were both both incapable of managing Rooney. Its always the same tactic played by United - play on the counter against Arsenal. They keep Rooney on the centerbacks and play off him in the counter - why does it always work?!?

Sagna was okay.

Song should have stayed back and protected the back four

Wilshere was okay.

Arshavin tried some things, but they didn't come off.

Nasri was bright but the players around him were not.

Rosiscky was bad, should have started Fabregas (although he didn't make much of a difference)

Van Persie is not back on it.

The table currently looks like this:

P PTS

1 Man Utd 16 34

2 Arsenal 17 32

3 Man City 17 32

4 Chelsea 17 31

Man Utd and Chelsea play each other next. A draw will put Utd on 35 and Chelsea 32. A Chelsea win will put them on 34.

If Arsenal were to beat Stoke and either of these two results occur we'll be back top! Let's stay positive....