Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner is desperate to be play in the first team on a regular basis. The 20 year old said: "So far this season I haven't played as much as I would have liked. But I'm sure it will come and I'll keep working hard in training."

Bendtner feels his time with Danish the national side over the last two years has helped develop his game.

"When I first started playing I wasn't the team player I could be - and now I am starting to adapt the way I should and have been doing well for them," Bendtner said on Arsenal TV Online.

"When I came in I was 18, and you are young in your mind and young on the pitch - you didn't know where to stand and what position to be in. You didn't realise that if you lose the ball you have to be the 11th defender.

"I have that in my game now, and it has changed me a lot."