Van Persie was utter garbage today, he improved towards the end but, his touch was poor, he should have on an average day scored 4, his goal was deflected and followed 2-3 woeful freekicks, his passing was almost all woeful, his movement, workrate and the penalty he should have conceded.
How anyone can take todays game and suggest had he been fit somehow our season would be different.
Last year he came back from injury and in his first gaem(was it against Spurs maybe?) he came on late and was just pure class from his first touch. This season he's come back, he's been incredibly poor, maybe he's not really fit or carrying an injury, his touch is poor, his passing is mostly poor, his shooting has been poor.
Nasri, form of his life, again rubbish, inside the box, not at all bad though he ignored several chances to shoot and his pass for Wilshire was pretty woeful. Had he put it low and infront of Wilshire, its a simple goal, instead he put it behind him and high though he probably should have shot himself. Nasri was poor bringing the ball out of defence, slow, insists on running the ball into dead ends, was largely completely either useless or anonymous for 85minutes of the game again.
If it wasn't for Fabregas we could have struggled badly today. Nasri's goal was 100% down to Fabregas, not only did Fabregas win the ball, the pass from Nasri straight back to him(fast becoming the standard Nasri pass) was awful, but for Fabregas's marauding run forwards, getting to the ball first and most importantly he carried on the run which dragged Dann out of the way for Nasri to shoot.
For Fabregas shot/own goal again it was all Fabregas, Nasri running around in circles, Fabregas lays on an inch perfect pass for Nasri, Fabregas makes the run and takes the shot.
It was again strange to see, quite randomly Nasri switched to the left wing while Arshavin played on the right, why on earth has he suddenly decided to switch Arshavin to his weakest position I don't know.
Likewise, rather than drop certain players for the next game, at 2-0 with 35-40mins to go we could easily have taken off Fabregas, Nasri and rested them but Wenger just goes on and makes them play the full game, and sicknote upfront aswell, for no real reason.
These are games any other sane manager would take of Fabregas, RVP, Nasri and put on guys like JET, Vela, whoever, and actually give people a rest. Instead he leaves on the most important players who if they get injured, we're screwed, and he brings on the guys he's going to want to start next game.
RVP over his last 3-4 games, shouldn't be starting, hasn't worked in a 4-5-1 at any stage and has looked woeful this season so far.
This is our yearly busy period, where we pick up injuries and ruin our entire season late Jan and Feb, every single year, and Wenger still doesn't learn.
Pointlessly dropped points against a crap 10 man wigan because rather than take Fabregas off at 65minutes against a epically failing Chelsea, he decides ignoring the next game and then making sweeping changes would work fine, despite failing repeatedly for years on end.
I can't believe Arsenal fans are still going on about that!
