I've always rated that Adebayor

That felt really good.

Jens is a world class keeper, and treated us to another of his now legendary Jekyll and Hyde performances. Getting booked for picking the ball up "outside the area" (as Johnny Mac would say, the ball was on the line) and giving possession back to Man Yoo with some poor throwing was contrasted with a complete command of his area, a great face-first save from a fake Ronaldo piledriver, and a simply out of this world stop to deny Solskjaer at the death. He is the best keeper in the Premiership when he plays like that and I don't care what anybody else says.

The back four played well in general, and both Kolo and Willy Gallas were unlucky not to get on the scoresheet with a hammer of a strike and an attempted bundle respectively. That said, Eboue again looked defensively naive, his positioning almost let Man Yoo in a number of times and I would still play Lauren ahead of him if he were fit.

Cesc put in a solid 90 minutes, pinging the ball all about and working his arse off to make space and create angles of play for others. That said there were a few instances when he tried to be a little too clever for himself and gave the ball away or got caught in possesion. But the way he robbed fake Ronaldo to set up the winner, that was poetry.

Rosicky - what a performance. He looked class from start to finish, fantastic first touch, always looked like he had time on the ball, neat passing and had one particularly stunning strike on the volley, which Kuszczak did really well to palm away, because it was moving some. It's great to know that with both Rosicky and Fabregas in the side we've got two players who can dictate the game from midfield.

As for Adebayor, well. I have been one of his most vociferous critics around, bemoaning his Bambi-esqu playing style, inability to score open goals and appalling ability in the air for a guy who's 6"3 or thereabouts. He was fantastic. Deployed in a lone striker role he held the ball up brilliantly, brought other players into the game, won balls in the air and looked confident, skillful on the ball and just worked so damn hard. This is the player that Wenger saw before he bought him. Don't get me wrong, all is not forgiven, and he's going to have to put in some similar performances before I completely come around on him, but he's certainly bought himself some time. Well done big man.

We should really have scored three, although United could have had a couple themselves. Adebayor had another good chance but sidefooted weakly which Kuszczak saved down low, la Bestia shot just wide from outside the area following a surging run, Adebayor had a great header saved first by Kuszczak and then Scholes, and then the ball almost got bundelled over the line by Gallas, and of course Gilberto missed a pen. He was unlucky, losing the footing on his standing leg as he struck the ball. To be honest Kuszczak went the right way anyway and it would have had to be stuck right in the corner to have scored, but still, we'll never know.

Rooney did bugger all, Scholes and O'Shea got completely bossed, Ronaldo played well, as did Evra down that left side, aided by Eboue's ineffectual display, and Saha maybe should have scored with a header. Scholes also proved what an absolute thug he still is with his off-the-ball take out of Tomas Rosicky. I've defended Scholes in the past with some of his horrific tackling, thinking it's less malicious, and more that he just can't tackle, but he's definitely got a nasty streak in him, and with Keane gone maybe Scholes is going to take it on himself to be the team's prize cunt.

Of course now all the pundits are backtracking, saying we can still challenge for the title. If we win out game in hand we'll still be four points behond Man Yoo and the Chavs (who were lucky to beat the bindippers but at least scored a cracking goal from Drogba) and five behind Pompey (Europe this season), but I still fancy us to get in the mix. No team is looking unbeatable, and at this point in the season that's as it should be. It was laughable how everyone was predicting doom and gloom for us after three games and I think that this season might be very very interesting as far as the title race goes. Could be the best Premiership season in some time.

Much was said after the game. Wenger hit back at Chief Red Face's accusation that Arsenal are a team in transition (to be fair I think we still are, but so are Man Yoo, Chavski and Liverpool at the moment). It was nice to see Sir credit us with the win though, saying we deserved it. Possibly trying to call a truce to battle the evil Maureen? We'll see.

Arsene went on to say it was his best win at Old Trafford and warned people not to write us off. Adebayor dedicated his goal to Thierry and RvP and was otherwise thoroughly chuffed with the three points.

So three points in our biggest game of the season so far, and although we're only four games in I've got a good feeling. I think this could be the most open Premiership in some time and I can't wait for our next game.

Come on you Gooners.