It can become even better if he wasn't so selfish at the edge of the box.
Robin van Persie | 2012-14 Performances
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The Rooney-RVP combination looks very good. Lovely movement from both of them so far.
Don't know how much of that is due to Fulham being utterly shit.
Don't know how much of that is due to Fulham being utterly shit.
I think it was more a matter of him being caught in two minds.
Fantastic today. Him and Rooney are playing Fulham off the park.
Have they ever linked up so well before ?
To be fair he has barely had touches on the ball prior to the last few matches.
Stolen from Arse forums....
What do you think is happening?
@ RvP expression !!!
What do you think is happening?
@ RvP expression !!!
Wow I definitely haven't seen that already.
Oh dear, the Arsenal, Liverpool and City fans will be ******* over them pictures when they're probably just ripping into each other about their grey hair.
loving RVP's bottom lip in that 2nd pic.Van Persie has become the highest scoring Dutchman in the EPL with 128 goals overtaking Hasselbaink. RVP is now in the top 10 highest premier league scorers of all time.
Should've scored today. Very poor for a player of his quality.
Hit the post twice. I'd say unlucky. His basic ability of being able to control the football made us look so much better up front.
Think he looked very sharp when he came on.
He was unucky with the two chances, but he looked good when he came on. Just isolated. The space between Giggs/Fellaini and the strikers was huge, especially in the 2nd half since RVP played very high up and Kagawa wasn't playing as deep as Rooney was.
He should have done better.
It's weird that he misses so many easy chances at times.
He was unlucky but we looked a lot more threatening with him on the pitch.
The goal he scored vs Fulham was so much more difficult than what he missed tonight.
This. I love the guy but he really should have scored, the penalty should be going in, the other chance wasn't easy but you'd expect him to bury it.
If anyone's to blame tonight it's him and Hernandez really.
But then again those two have won us so many matches in the past they've got this one in the bank.
But then again those two have won us so many matches in the past they've got this one in the bank.
Shocking misses but he was very good by and large.
Not really unlucky missing an open net at the back post. Don't really know how he missed that one. It was easier to score.
I love that fake-and-go thing he does nearly every game now, just a pity about the final ball. Should have scored though.
The cross was fired in hard, past a few players and it was on his wrong foot with his first touch of the match. Rooney wouldn't have scored it on his left foot that's for sure.
Weird justification, but okay.
Agree with this. We looked toothless before he came on, and immediately looked like scoring with him on the pitch.
Yeah, if it's one up front with one behind, the difference between himself and Hernandez was pretty vividly displayed there tonight. Nothing to do with Hernandez' miss, just the presence, the focal point that RVP provides.
Should have scored but he looked really lively and a big goal threat when he came on which wasn't what the strikers on before him provided. Bodes well for the Arsenal game.
On a side note, I'd love for us to try Kagawa behind Rooney and Januzaj on the left once in awhile.
He looks sharper than he's done for a month or so. Probably due to his toes now being fine.
Still cost us the game with two big misses.
Still cost us the game with two big misses.
Meh, hit the post from an acute angle with his weaker foot, nothing to see here.
A penalty is obviously a goal though.
A penalty is obviously a goal though.
They are? I haven't read anything about that.
I just assumed they were since Moyes said he was ready vs Fulham and he looked a different player with spring in his step. He got rested vs Norwich due to his toe issue I seem to remember.
Me too. Kagawa behind anyone really, and not to the side of. He looked awful on the left. He came into the middle and immediately looked excellent, and we started to attack with more purpose.
Yeah, hope you're right. A RvP back to last season's form can only be a good thing. He's not there yet though, Sunday would be a nice day to get there, can't wait.
Interesting stuff from Wenger:
Wenger: Meulensteen behind Van Persie transfer
Arsene Wenger has insisted that the much-discussed telephone conversations he held with Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2012 were not crucial to his decision to sell Robin van Persie to Manchester United.
It was believed that Ferguson's intervention was crucial to Arsenal opting to agree a move for their Dutch striker, but Wenger has dismissed that theory ahead of his latest meeting with his former captain on Sunday.
Instead, Wenger believes the influence of Ferguson's assistant coach Rene Meulensteen was behind Van Persie's desire to join United, as he re-visited a painful episode in his recent Arsenal career ahead of this weekend's trip to Old Trafford.
"Honestly, what convinced me in our talks [with Ferguson over Van Persie] was just his number [the fee] and it was the head to head talks I held with Robin van Persie many, many times that convinced me that I had to sell him," Wenger stressed.
"Robin van Persie has been convinced by the Dutch coach [Meulensteen] who was at Manchester United and that played a part in that.
"I think in the end I had to decide do I do this or not knowing that I would get huge criticism. At the end of the day, I felt it was the best thing to do.
"It's strange [to see him in a United shirt]. For me he is an Arsenal man. I took him when he was a very, very young man and we have gone together through very difficult periods. He became a world class player and for me, he is an Arsenal player.
"Robin van Persie was 29 when he left and he was impatient. Some players saw the other big clubs buying world name players and they lost a little bit of confidence we can compete with them. It's understandable, but we have always been consistent with how the club should be run and hopeful that we could turn the corner."
Read more at http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/255747.html#64R24VhZrl2pTd3i.99
Wenger: Meulensteen behind Van Persie transfer
Arsene Wenger has insisted that the much-discussed telephone conversations he held with Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2012 were not crucial to his decision to sell Robin van Persie to Manchester United.
It was believed that Ferguson's intervention was crucial to Arsenal opting to agree a move for their Dutch striker, but Wenger has dismissed that theory ahead of his latest meeting with his former captain on Sunday.
Instead, Wenger believes the influence of Ferguson's assistant coach Rene Meulensteen was behind Van Persie's desire to join United, as he re-visited a painful episode in his recent Arsenal career ahead of this weekend's trip to Old Trafford.
"Honestly, what convinced me in our talks [with Ferguson over Van Persie] was just his number [the fee] and it was the head to head talks I held with Robin van Persie many, many times that convinced me that I had to sell him," Wenger stressed.
"Robin van Persie has been convinced by the Dutch coach [Meulensteen] who was at Manchester United and that played a part in that.
"I think in the end I had to decide do I do this or not knowing that I would get huge criticism. At the end of the day, I felt it was the best thing to do.
"It's strange [to see him in a United shirt]. For me he is an Arsenal man. I took him when he was a very, very young man and we have gone together through very difficult periods. He became a world class player and for me, he is an Arsenal player.
"Robin van Persie was 29 when he left and he was impatient. Some players saw the other big clubs buying world name players and they lost a little bit of confidence we can compete with them. It's understandable, but we have always been consistent with how the club should be run and hopeful that we could turn the corner."
Read more at http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/255747.html#64R24VhZrl2pTd3i.99
From what we've gleaned since his retirement, it looks like SAF did feck all and piggybacked of great assistants for the entirety of his tenure.
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