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Manchester United – Robin Van Persie is Hoping His First Isn’t The Last
Is it possible to begin your career at the age of 29? Robin van Persie will be 30 next season, but despite playing for nearly a decade with a top club in the Premier League, he has only one league championship to show for it, finally earning his due after leaving Arsenal for Manchester United.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Was the Only One Interested
Boredom and motivation is something Manchester United have been battling with, funny to say, for over a month now, with the Premier League title well secured for quite some time. Robin van Persie, making a return to a stadium he played at for eight seasons, against a hostile crowd, was the only one with a real reason to put on his best.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Finds Scoring Touch in Perfect Timing
It wasn’t the first hat-trick for Robin van Persie in his young Manchester United career, but it was probably a little more special than his first one at the beginning of the season, when everything about Manchester United seemed to be about his scoring touch. It’s been a rough couple of months for the Dutch striker, but he has regained his scoring touch just in time to secure a 20th championship for his club, and a first one for him personally.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Enjoys Late Wake Up Call
When you don’t score goals, you take what you get, and as it happens, Manchester United usually get favors from referees and linesman, giving Robin van Persie a chance not only to score his second goal in so many matches, something we forgot he can do, but also salvage a draw to help keep the pressure off of them, while Shinji Kagawa enjoyed one of his better games for the Red Devils.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Makes a Fool of Himself
Instead of looking bored out of his mind with what’s left of the season like the rest of his teammates, Robin van Persie decided to celebrate his drought-ending goal a little bit too festively when you think about the long garbage time Manchester United have been on for quite some time, but strikers and goalscorers operate on a different code apparently. Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney represented what this team is all about this season in a much more suitable way.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie & Wayne Rooney Get Too Much Credit
All Alex Ferguson could do at the end of the match after losing the Manchester derby at home for the second straight season was blame the referees. What else? It’s not his fault that Manchester United were outplayed for most of the match in the middle of the pitch, while Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney looked too isolated and a tad useless upfront for most of the match. It’s always the officials.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Looks Depressing En Route to Title
Once the chances of winning the Champions League were gone, it seemed that Manchester United fell out-of-love with the 2012-2013 season, and are trying to do the absolute minimum in order to secure the Premier League. Despite Robin van Persie in the worst form he’s been in for years, it’s working out pretty well for them.
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Manchester United – Robin van Persie Forgot How to Score
Luckily for Robin van Persie, Manchester United are simply gliding towards the Premier League title, thanks to his scoring touch in the first half of the season, but there is no denying that if it wasn’t for their huge lead at the top of the table, we would be hearing a lot more questions and doubts about his ability, going through the worst scoring drought anyone of his caliber has gone through this season and in recent memory.
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Manchester United – Wayne Rooney Shines Above Mediocrity
Mediocre, boring and dull are all words that would be perfect to describe the performance Manchester United gave as they inched closer to securing yet another Premier League title, as Wayne Rooney provided the only worthy strike to give them a win while their bizarre and slightly lucky streak of not conceding continues.
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Manchester United – David de Gea Saves From Embarrassing Collapse
Arrogant is probably the right word for how Manchester United and Alex Ferguson treated their opponents, with Robin van Persie left on the bench and the way Alex Ferguson continues to talk to and about Rafa Benitez. Even the return of Wayne Rooney or the usual Chicharito poaching couldn’t stop his team from owing David de Gea a big thank you, denying another cup exit against Chelsea.