AA23 remains an individual who divides opinions among both Arsenal fans and pundits but what can never be questioned is his quality. On his day he is as good as any in Premier league and is a nightmare for best of defense, as a well drilled defense of Rafa Benitez found out on that night at Anfield.
It is no secret he had a relatively poor start to his season but the first half of Spurs and Villa Park are anything to go by he is rediscovering his form, just when we need the big players to step up and deliver.
His low center of gravity, vision and audacity to do the unthinkable is what we need to push this team towards the title glory during what promises to be one of the tightest if not the tightest ever premier league competition.
His strengths are his weaknesses as well, when not in form his attempted magic balls do not come off, passes go missing and he starts to look like a lazy player oppose to one taking clever positions in the final third of the pitch to keep the opponents backline on toes and pull them apart to create space for Nasri, Chamakh et al. to exploit just as they did at Villa park. Biggest strength of Arshavin is perhaps his ability to make the game look simple, just like all the great players did. You often heard the same about DB and Henry and in recent years about Cesc.
Is Arshavin back to his best yet?? I think not, there is more to come and when he discovers that, I suspect it will be January onwards when we will see his best, we will start to control more games, loose less balls in the final third and his pace, dribbling and ability to take on men will give us the needed edge and different dimension in the attack to push us towards what looks a very winnable title.
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