Wenger praise for van Persie

Written by Jonathan Chong on Sunday, January 4, 2009

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03 Jan 3:00 PM FA Plymouth Argyle (H) 3 1 Win
Wenger praise for van Persie

Manager Arsène Wenger has praised stand-in captain Robin van Persie after he led his side to a 3-1 win over Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup.

Wenger said: "Robin is always interested in team problems and affairs and always wants to sort things out. In today's team he was the longest-serving member and I think he did his job very well.

"I believe he is one of the players who is a big example of how well you can have an evolution.

"When you consider him when he came here and where he is today he has evolved very well.

"Not many would have believed that [he could be Arsenal captain] when he arrived."

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Miron Spahiu

Posted on 5 Jan, 2009 at 02:25 PM - Reply

i read in newspapers that Mr.Wenger is searching for a special talent. in Macedonia(DEBAR-FC KORAB) a small city but with huge traditional in football with development. please send a scouts when the season start in March and you will see there many talents especially Fuat Spahiu,who play as a striker or middfilder he also is the youngest player in history of the team 16year now he becaame a captaain of the team please help me this transfer be realized. i love and arsenal is my blood.

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Fergus Mccartan

Posted on 4 Jan, 2009 at 08:55 PM - Reply

Van Persie is a great player and scores great goals for us but i belive were going in the wrong direction we need to buy in Jan or 4th place could be lost.We need to buy proven players and not young and up coming as we have plenty of them already.

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george

Posted on 4 Jan, 2009 at 07:19 PM - Reply

van persie , sagna, fabregas and clichy have been our best players this season. if we didn,t have them quadruple we would be 30 points away from the top

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Vicky

Posted on 4 Jan, 2009 at 05:40 PM - Reply

Arsene Wenger made him a player and he made him a reliable person as well.

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pedro

Posted on 4 Jan, 2009 at 11:39 AM - Reply

they scored wehn we we were 2 up. not in the 1st half

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yun_da_t

Posted on 4 Jan, 2009 at 11:34 AM - Reply

Incorrect. Arsenal did not go down a goal down to a first half strike, no goals were scored in the first half, I was at the Stadium. van Persie scored with a header, then the own goal, which Bendtner claimed. Then Plymouth got a goal then van Persie scored his second.

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