26 April 2013 Last up-to-date at 10:45 GMT Collection are without the services of Oliver Giroud following the striker failed in a bid to obtain his red card against Fulham last week-end rescinded. Lukasz Fabianski continues to be out with a injury, while Abou Diaby and Ryo Miyaichi are out for the season. Manchester United supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed he plans to add his edge players between now and the end of the growing season. Javier Hernandez, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck and Nani are required to start out. They need to stand to applaud the newly-crowned champions when Manchester United try the field at the Emirates - Robin van Persie included, painful though it will be for Arsenal players and fans alike. Having done that, those same followers, who so frequently sit in near silence making the Emirates feel just like the greatest library in London, should access it their feet and give their part every decibel of vocal backing they can gather as their club offers to qualify for the Champions League. A few weeks ago I did not fancy their chances at all, but to get 16 items from a possible 18 because the morale-sapping defeat at Tottenham is terrific. Needless to say, to beat Swansea, Reading, West Brom, Norwich and Fulham is something, to beat Manchester United is fairly another. To win, Arsenal will definitely need to perform quite definitely better than they did at Craven Cottage last weekend. If Arsenal beat United then a top-four area is inside their hands; victories inside their last three games against QPR, Wigan and Newcastle could guarantee that only one of Spurs or Chelsea (who enjoy each other on 8 May) can finish above them - maybe not both. All fans will be left by this unseemly scrambling for points beneath them from Old Trafford with a smile playing on their lips. It only remains for United to pick up the prize after their home sport with Swansea on 12 Might and then get down seriously to as Wigan fans over time for the FA Cup final some serious moonlighting. This latest success is the 34th important honour of Fergie's managerial career and United's 25th in the last 23 years; their ruling hold on English soccer is sometimes relaxed but has never been truly broken. But, after what Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have shown the entire world this week, the popularity in Europe which United crave but have never truly reached might be as elusive as ever. Head-to-head Strategy Manchester United
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