Mean Lean

Richards and Dunne who were pulled to pieces last week against Adebayor were in fantastic form and shut the door many times on Manchester United

Adebayor is currently starting to show massive improvement in his performances. I remember watching him on his debut and he looked gangly and a tad awkward

This time he will have to make sure his team do not slip into freefall. Aston Villa away is not the type of game that you want to get back to winning ways.

We will have to play better than we did against Wigan if we are to get anything from the game that is for sure. We have to play with a high level of commitment and not play like we are already through

Rosicky is key to Arsenal's challenge for the title this year but he needs a run of 20 matches without breaking down. He needs to get into the flow of Arsenal football just as Hleb has done

Arsene had to make a choice, he had some big decisions to make. He had ageing stars like Bergkamp, Vieira, Pires, Ljungberg, Lauren all coming towards the latter part of their careers

Arsene Wenger has admitted that he made a mistake by playing Adebayor upfront on his own in a 4-5-1 formation as it isolated him and we didn't look as dangerous as we have all season.

What I found baffling was the amount of times Adebayor was pulling out wide and dropping into deep positions because it meant that we had no focal point up front

The way he took his second goal was very Michael Owen, not Henry as the press have been talking about. There is no doubt that Theo can score goals, he is a natural finisher. He looks at the goal keepers position before placing the ball unlike Adebayor.

Like I have said before, I don't think that Adebayor and Van Persie are suited partners, I don't think they get the best out of eachother, they don't click. At the moment the form of the team means that this is not a problem. Both players are scoring separate goals right now