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Manager Arsène Wenger is feeling confident ahead of his side’s clash with champions Manchester United this weekend. The Gunners brushed aside Celtic 3-1 (5-1 on aggregate) in the Champions League and will be looking to take their good form to Old Trafford on a high.
Arsenal have enjoyed a perfect start to the season, winning all of their first four games, scoring 15 goals in the process. In contrast, there is a question mark over champions Manchester United as they lost to Burnley last week and many are wondering if they have underestimated Cristiano Ronaldo’s contribution to the side.
After the win over Celtic, Wenger said: "I’m happy to go there because it is the first big, big test. You want to have a high level of confidence when you go to Old Trafford and we have that at the moment. For us it is most important to recover physically because Man United didn’t play tonight.
"Aaron Ramsey is injured. I do not know how bad it is. I know they checked his knee but I have not spoken to the physios yet. Cesc looks to be short for Saturday. I could take Abou Diaby off because he has not played for a long time. Three games in the same week would be a lot, apart from that, everybody looks alright.”
And the Frenchman is expected to deploy his new 4-3-3 system that has been used to such devastating effect in the season so far. But ironically, the same system was used against United last season and Arsenal lost heavily.
Wenger added: "We played using 4-3-3 in the Champions League game against Manchester United as well and it didn’t work at all. What changed? I feel in the Champions League, we were on back foot and in the Premier League we were more adventurous and going forward more often. We were too passive in Champions League; it is more mentally than tactically.
"I believe we defend better as a unit. The system is not that new, we have played many games like that. At the moment, 4-3-3 works well for us. We have another test to see that on Saturday afternoon."
