Winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain can focus on carving out a 'massive future' for club and country after signing a new long-term deal at Arsenal, according to Jamie Redknapp.
"There were some really positive signs from Theo Walcott in his all-round game. In the modern game, especially when teams play a formation with three in the middle, he should be happy playing anywhere - he shouldn't be getting bogged down and thinking 'I'm a front man now'.
"If Wenger plays him wider when Giroud's fit it's not a problem. There are so many different options. He shouldn't worry about it too much. He's just got to play now because one way or another he can't lose: he's in the shop window.
"His representatives will know every option he's got available, so in the summer he'll probably have offers from most of the big clubs in England and maybe some in Europe as well. He'll also be thinking 'I can sign up for Arsenal'. That's why he's keeping his options open.
"I think he should stay at Arsenal - I really do - especially if Wenger's keeping people like Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain. But he's also got to do the right thing for him. He's got to look at it and ask 'are Arsenal going in the right direction? Is the fact that they keep selling their best players - Nasri, Fabregas, Van Persie - important to him?
"It's not his fault that Arsenal let him go to a year of his contract - that is Arsenal's fault. You shouldn't let that happen. You don't let quality players go to a year of their contract. Would that happen at Manchester United? Never.
"When Wayne Rooney had all his problems with Alex Ferguson over 'will he, won't he' sign, he had two years left on his contract, not six months. So Arsenal haven't really got anyone else to blame but themselves for letting this predicament happen."
Trapped
Wigan manager Roberto Martinez felt Walcott went down too easily for the penalty but Redknapp had no doubt that referee Jon Moss was right to award the spot-kick.
"Beausejour goes to press Walcott but he just sleeps for a split second," he explained. "He's walking as Theo runs and all of a sudden the reaction time is too late. Theo has got his shoulder in front of him and if there's any contact, then Theo is going to go down.
"There's no doubt it's a penalty because Theo's leg gets trapped; he catches Beausejour's backside as it happens but it was definitely a penalty. It just shows that Beausejour is not a defender. He's predominantly a winger who is playing in a wing-back position at times.
"He got in a position where he didn't react - he didn't sense danger like good defenders do."
However, Redknapp did agree with Martinez that Wigan were hard done by in the dying minutes of the game when they might have had a brace of spot-kicks themselves.
"Wigan should have had two penalties," he said. "When I'm looking at defenders defending I want to see bravery because it hurts sometimes when you the ball hits you - it's not nice being hit in the face, arm, chest, wherever.
"But you can't move your arm to the ball but two of their defenders in Kieran Gibbs (90) and Thomas Vermaelen (90+1) both commit handball in my opinion. I think the referees got both of those wrong. Arsenal are extremely lucky there."
Sanitise
Redknapp also criticised referee Moss for booking Wilshere on 41 minutes for a strong challenge on Shaun Maloney.
"It's a joke - an absolute joke. This does my head in. Wilshere makes a fantastic tackle - it's a 50-50 challenge. He goes to win the ball.
"What happens is the players influence the referee - four of them all converge on the referee; they are obviously trying to get him booked or even sent off.
"If we continue to sanitise the game it's finished. We all want to see lovely technicians on the ball but you also want to see 50-50 tackles. That might not be true in some parts of Europe - they want to see the 'Ole' football but in this Premier League we want to see that passion.
"Unfortunately if we are getting to the stage where referees are going to give bookings for challenges like that it's going to be a sorry game.
"I'm sorry but the referees have got to be so careful because we could end up with six or seven players aside on the pitch at this rate."
