Arsene Wenger hailed Theo Walcott’s return to the squad after his long term injury.
England international Walcott made a competitive appearances for the first time since January against Burnley in Saturday’s 3-0 win and the winger’s return was met with heavy praise from his boss – Arsene Wenger.
“Of course [it is a lift to have Walcott back],” Wenger said. “For him it must be great as well to see that everybody wants him to come on.
“Lukas Podolski also could have scored two and he came on. When you think that we have not got a number of offensive players like Ozil, Wilshere and Giroud [to come back], there’s a lot of competition in the forward positions.”
On his own personal performance on Saturday, Walcott told reporters: “It’s good I could give him 12 or 13 minutes today when the game was nearly won.
“It’s good that his decision making and movement are good – he just needs to get used to competition.”