Arshavin did in NO WAY cost us the goal, look at his position and why Valencia didn't shoot, why, because ARshavin tracked him the whole way and when he got the ball back he was between Valencia and the goal.
Mertesacker you can see ignores everyone around him when Valencia gets the ball and moves AWAY from Welbeck, Verm and Koscielny both got drawn to the same player and Verm really wasn't anywhere near left back or where he should have been.
Arshavin did as much as he could, the 6 or so other Arsenal players in the box all failed to mark a single Utd player in the box...... put the blame where it was deserved.
As for ARsenal, not like they are predictable.
Song gets away with murder, again and again and again.... check.
Wenger takes off the best player for the most out of form player we have(who is available)..... check.
Wenger leaves on the worst player on the pitch who barely put a foot right the entire game(Theo, Song, Djourou, Rosicky did nothing useful)... check.
Welbeck though, lol, he did a great Walcott impression, first time through on goal, underhit it, second time, terrible touch, went wide, fluked ending up with the ball(just like THeo most of the time he ends up somewhere dangerous) and shoots selfishly from a terrible angle rather than pass to Nani or Rooney who both had a great angle and an open goal.
Third and last time, through on goal, slows down, can't decide what to do.... fall over on the ball........ that was one of the best impressions of Walcott I've seen to date.
Rooney was hilarious in that, throughout the game I kept thinking, has he done anything except get fouled by Arsenal? The ref after ignoring a cynical foul(the type he gave Ramsey a yellow for and could clearly be saying "I have no choice" for that type for foul), and another foul, he did the bad foul, got a talking to and we saw the ref say "1 more than a yellow", to which he did about 4-5 more fouls, some punished, some not.
Did we play well?
