Unspectacular but much needed

Whilst it wasn't a great display of our fantastic footballing ability, Saturday's game brought a very welcome three points in our new home and dismissed any ridiculous talk of new stadiumitis (we drew twice for God's sake).

The first half looked rather worryingly like it was going to be one of those days. We were playing well, creating chances and not taking them, although fair credit should go to the Blades' keeper Bennett who pulled off a couple of very tidy saves. TH14 wasn't looking at his sharpest and you could just see a nil nil being drawn out by Sheffield United. Then of course Henry stopped pissing around.

After an hour played Thierry clipped a little ball through to Cesc, who miscontrolled it right into the path of William Gallas to smash home his first Arsenal goal, and therefore further endear himself to the home faithful. Henry then drove into the box past a couple of players and crossed, only for Phil Jagielka to put through his own net. 2-0. Then to finish things off Thierry got his goal with a nice header from a pinpoint Eboue cross. It all ended far more comfortably than it could have, and I was certainly relieved when I saw that third goal go in with ten minutes to play because I was then sure that we would take all three points at home for the first time this season.

We didn't really click into our rhythm during the game, a couple of players looked decidely off kilter, but I'm not going to name names and go through a thorough dissection. I'm hoping that we've just had our traditionally patchy October/November form early this year, and that we'll move on from strength to strength. We need to build up a head of steam now and keep pushing on all fronts. Speaking of which, we've drawn the Baggies in the next round of the League Cup.

And that's enough for today. I'm a busy little Gooner. More on Wenger's ten year anniversary and a preview to the Porto game (which I'll be attending) tomorrow.