Sunday 5 May 2013 07:52, UK
Theo Walcott scored the quickest goal of the Premier League season to secure Arsenal a 1-0 win at Queens Park Rangers to keep his club on course for UEFA Champions League qualification.
Walcott's winner was his 20th goal of the season and Arsene Wenger praised the winger's growing maturity after the game. "His finishing is better, in his duels he is stronger and he plays with more belief," said Wenger. "You get to a stage where you're 24, which he is now, that's when a player becomes really more mature and you've seen that with his goalscoring record." Meanwhile, QPR boss Harry Redknapp dismissed suggestions that there was a lack of spirit on display from his side in the early stages. Redknapp said: "I felt to go a goal down within a minute, we showed fantastic spirit. We hung in there and we could have gone under after conceding a goal in a minute. "After that I felt we were every bit as good as them and could easily have got a result. I thought it was an excellent performance and the spirit was first class.
