http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 may become Arsenals lead forward this year
Robin Van Persie is Arsenal’s own Flying Dutchman. The forward has been a part of the Gunners line-up since he was signed from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Feyenoord-c39258 back in 2004. Despite being amongst the Arsenal ranks for so long, the footballer has never really managed to reach the
same level of success as some of the other forwards in the team. This is mainly due to the fact that the player has almost always suffered from some sort of an injury issue. Ever since his move to Arsenal, the only season where the player avoided serious injuries
was in the 2008-2009 season, when he made forty four appearances for the team and managed to find the back of the net twenty times, while helping create thirteen other goals.
This year he started off the Premier League season after a fairly good performance at the FIFA World Cup. However an early injury in saw Van Persie get side lined from the action for a number of months, which led to everyone assuming that it was going to
be one of those seasons again.
Once Van Persie did make his return to the Gunners, he played with supreme form as he looked to be almost invincible at times. Van Persie scored his first goal of the Premier League season when Arsenal took on Birmingham away from home. Fourteen days later
he went on to score two more goals, which were also the 50th and 51st goals of his Premier League career making him the fourth Dutch player in the league to reach that mark. The forward then continued his impressive form in other Cup
matches and helped Arsenal out of tough spots.
On the 22nd of January, Van Persie made a statement after scoring his first hat-trick for Arsenal. This underscored his importance to the Arsenal squad and declared that he was finally at his best. The class and form that the player had started
to show, was something that had been a long time coming.
Just six weeks into the new year, Van Persie has already managed to achieve a feat that no one else has. The Dutch forward has become the first Premier League player to reach double figures so far this year. As a result he can easily be considered to be
the player-of-the-year so far.
The form displayed by the player also shows just what Arsenal has been missing out on for the last six years. The team really needed a striker who could lead the team from the front and it seems like they have gotten lucky with Van Persie.
One of the main problems that Arsenal have had with their strikers lately is the fact that they are a little too unselfish and at times don’t finish off an attack, even though they have countless opportunities to do so. That has not been the case with Van
Persie, as he is the type of forward who tries to seize every opportunity that he gets.
That being said, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 may have been Arsenal’s player-of-the-season so far but if Van Persie continues his impressive form to the end of the season, then he may end up becoming Arsenal’s player-of-the-season.
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