Following on from comments about Match of the Day's lazy summarising of the Everton game some lazy sh*t put up the team sheets before kick off. Gallas at right back, Hoyte at left back, Van Persie up front with Henry and Rosicky on the left of a four man midfield. Did they even watch the game? Or even see them line up? Or did they just see the players listed and leave it at that?

Quite clearly Wenger was using his increasingly favoured 4-5-1/4-3-3 of which much has been written about both online and in the fanzine. While I agree with the theory of it, and indeed the practice (though it didn't work on Saturday) I think it takes away from Henry's most effective natural game.

Without another man up front - be it Van Persie (who I think is better and more effective coming off the bench) or Adebeyor (who I'm still not convinced about, though he looked very good as the one up front in Manchester) - he can't drift off to the left and make those wonderful runs on the ball that create so much. Well, he can, but then he's getting in Van Persie's way and there's no great presence in the box for him to cross to (though I'm hoping that will change when Baptista's fit). He gets stuck up front with two or three centre halves marking him with his back to goal.

I agree with the wonders it does for the team as a whole and I like the fluidity of movement, as long as the midfield continue to get forward to support the attack and ensure it does become and 4-3-3. While I understand you can't set your team up to pander to one man, I feel it takes away from our most effective and devastating goal threat, the man every one is scared of and that causes problems - especially at home against defensive teams. But against teams who are willing to play football, such as Man United, Real Madrid (the two prime examples – along with Reading - of how this formation can work), the movement it gives us works wonders.

Horses for courses and all that... And we must re-learn how to break down tough teams, just as we once had to learn at the old Highbury. We've been here before and we got through it and ended up being invincible. We'll get through it again and then, who knows...