Here comes the barrage of one stars..... But hear me out.....
In my opinion, Van Persie has only been at his best in THREE games this season. Chelsea away, Sunderland at home and Norwich away. I think that because of his goal tally, people are ignoring the overall match performances.
If you see the highlights of the goals scored by RVP this season, most of them are tap-ins. He's scored so many because of the speed of Walcott and Gervinho around him. Both our wingers haven't been consistent enough, but every time they play a good ball into the box, Van persie pounces.
Of course he's scored some other wonder goals (against Everton for example) but I really do feel that his general performances have not been as good as people are making them out to be. Now that he hasn't scored from open play in his last 3 games, people have begun to realise it a little bit.
He is undroppable and arguably our only consistent goal threat, so we need him to step up performance-wise more than ever. His passing hasn't been great, and he hasn't been as clinical as you'd expect. Even in the chelsea game, he missed two sitters before going on to score that hat trick.
Yesterday, if that was chamakh trying to clip the ball instead of having a shot when the goal is so clear and close, THREE times, we'd be calling for execution.
And making this article even more controversial and open to ridicule, I think Chamakh needs to start vs QPR and then against Fulham. Wenger is being very unfair on this guy by giving him 5 minutes every game to try and get a goal. In 2011, he has contributed 1 goal and 2 assists in 297 minutes. So that's roughly as average of one goal/assist per 90 mins. Not bad.
He needs 90 minutes to prove himself. Start him and Van Persie together, let's see what happens. If Wenger won't start him, ffs at least bring him on with half an hour to go instead of 5 minutes.
RVP hasn't been at his best this season....
posted on 28/12/11
Gav, I'm saying that he hasn't played at his best, not he is rubbish or is not world class.
posted on 28/12/11
Verminator_05,
you cannot expect him to be on fire every game with the likes of Gervinho and Walcott supplying him.
Quite frankly, Ramsey isn't as good as people make him out to be.
And Song, is he fielded to play football or wrestle on the pitch?
On a serious note, I must say Arteta is the only player behind Robin in terms of footballing ability. Also, bear in mind that half of your first team players are all out injured.
posted on 28/12/11
RobinVanPerMertaelen,
I had to comment after I read Verminator_05's article - I was a tad annoyed.
Mr Chelsea,
come here you
posted on 28/12/11
Gav, what a load of rubbish.
Ramsey not as good as people make him out to be? Why? Because he has been poor for ONE game this season. He is 21 ffs.
And your Song comment is just pathetic. Your a Man City fan and you're in no position to talk about matters like that considering yaya toure nearly strangled mata after kicking him to the floor recently.
Gervinho and Walcott have both had plenty of assists this season, so another rubbish statement by you
posted on 28/12/11
Verminator_05,
coming from you? Ramsey is a substandard, you simply cannot say Ramsey is good enough to start every week. He's only 21 with many years ahead of him, but in this moment of time he's average at best.
Admitedlly, Yaya Toure overreacted a bit, however he had no right to inflict pain upon Mata. We've got to bear in mind that the game was against Chelsea not Wolves.
I doubt he'd do such a thing against Wolves on a cold weekday night.
As for Gervinho and Walcott; they're both decent wingers, but you cannot expect them to feed van Persie with accurate balls nearly every game. They're simply inconsistent.
That's why I said players have bad patches of form.
posted on 28/12/11
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posted on 28/12/11
Gav, it doesn't matter who it's from, if you make a rubbish statement, something that is not valid, it should be pointed out.
Are you suggesting that it's ok to hurt chelsea players but not Wolves player? Then I agree with you.
posted on 28/12/11
Verminator_05,
I stated an opinion I'm entitled to and obviously backed it reasonably well. However, that's not the primary.
Stop putting words into my mouth. I merely said that there is a higher chance of the occurrence of a player retaliating in a big game than there is in a home game against Wolves.
posted on 28/12/11
Gav, calm down, it was a joke, as no one really likes chelsea
Anyway, if you're so serious, do you call it 'retaliating' when you foul an opponent, and as he is about to get up, kick him back to the floor with significant force and moments later, grab his neck and swing him back with your arm as he attempts to ask for an explanation?
posted on 28/12/11
Verminator_05,
there could have been a chance of Mata saying something which offended Yaya, maybe. We never know.
We as supporters, only witness what's on the telly, which is 90 minutes of football.
If Mata was genuinely hurt or felt the need to report Yaya, he had an opportunity to speak to the referee like Evra did. As a result of that the referee could have included the incident in his report and the FA would have investigated the incident accordingly.