Van Persie absence only underlines his true worth
But ironically, in attempting to overcome Pulis’ uncompromising Potters with our Robin reliant parked on the bench, le Prof only managed to prove quite how impotent we are without him.
In fact the Gunners’ attack appears so lamentably goal-shy with Chamakh standing in for our captain, that after RVP had come on for his crucial two-goal cameo, I’d have been tempted to take him straight off again; to be able to wrap Robin up in cotton wool, rather than to risk him for a second longer than absolutely necessary, in the sort of roughhouse environment that is par for the course in the presence of Shawcross and co. Just how crap can our Korean striker be, if our Moroccan misfit continues to keep him out of the squad?
