MADURITY OF ROBIN VAN PERSIE

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ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE

http://futbolisticametrica.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-madurez-de-robin-van-persie.html

When it(he,she) came to England 7 years ago, it(he,she) was pointing to turn into one of the attackers of world reference into the second half of last decade. Inside the Arsenal it(he,she) had to share the attacker's position with forwards as Henry or Adebayor, saw as his(her,your) club it(he,she) was incorporating every summer other attackers who could dispute the position(place) (Bendtner, Candle(Sail), Arshavin, Chamakh ...) and the eternal curse of the injuries prevented him(her) from happening(passing) at all time of disputing more than two third parts of the parties(games) of his(her,your) equipment(team). 

For the history scorers did not remain registered his(her,your) brands(marks), but those of Drogba, Christian, Messi or Eto'o. During all these years his(her,your) paper(role) like the first front scorer and man of equipment(team) was got dark and discussed. Today, when the Arsenal was threatening with a historical debacle, with an irreversible escape(fugue) of talents, the Dutch has been raised as the captain that the club needed, a player of exceptional quality, in his(her,your) better moment of form, giving a step towards ahead definitively.

I WANT AND CANNOT

In this table we can see the long and rough(eventful) path of Persie Goes in the London club.

SEASON	PARTIES(GAMES)	GOALS	GOALS / PARTIES
2004-05	15.50	5	0.32
2005-06	15.75	5	0.31
2006-07	18.25	11	0.60
2007-08	13.50	7	0.52
2008-09	25.00	11	0.44
2009-10	14.50	9	0.62
2010-11	20.50	18	0.88
2011-12	11.25	13	1.16

It(He,She) had to wait even for 5 ª season to be able to dispute a significant number of minutes since(as,like) it(he,she) corresponds(fits) to a theoretical holder, though since(as,like) one sees not the sufficient ones. His(her,your) number(figure) scorer has been dancing to the compass of this disability to fade in many months without getting hurt and his(her,your) average has been accusing these continuous parones, though in 2006-10 it(he,she) has been ranging in a pitchfork that of having played more divided(departed) as titling they had awarded an acceptable quantity of goals, between(among) 16-22 goals.

The point of inflexion produces the past season to itself in the one that in spite of the discontinuity achieves the averages improve a phenomenon that in the present season, in which it(he,she) has disputed the majority of parties(games), has been accentuated.

To which this singularity owes?

HIS(HER,YOUR) ROUGH(EVENTFUL) CURVE OF LEARNING

In our previous article about his(her,your) compatriot

ARJEN ROBBEN: A BRILLIANT(GENIAL) SHORT CIRCUIT 

We could observe how the difficulty of improving averages for the injuries ends up by excelling itself when the player reaches the maturity.

In case of Robin Van Persie it(he,she) can sound untimely to speak about it when he is a player who enters the last third of his(her,your) sports career(race), but the certain thing is that if we add the total of complete parties(games) disputed in Eredivisie and Premier League, the number(figure) is about 180 parties(games), that is to say that though it(he,she) ends the season with 29 years in his(her,your) document of indentidad, will not have any more experience that any 23-24-year-old player. From this point of view, the injuries have not made but retard in the time the process for which the player was reaching the levels that it(he,she) was promising when he was registered and it(he,she) explains how Wenger, which there is waste of other many players during all this period, has decided to preserve at all time the Dutch.

Let's see this table. In her(it) they are, the total of goals added by forwards of recognized voracity in the moment in which there were adding the number of parties(games) that now Robin accumulates, the historical average up to this moment, and his(her,your) better average of goals for party(game) in a season completes till then. The numbers(figures) only assess parties(games) of league in maximum category; in case of Messi the total number of parties(games) is lightly low and in case of Forlan they are assessed his(her,your) years in Argentina.

PLAYER	GOALS	HISTORICAL AVERAGE	BETTER BRAND(MARK) GOALS / PARTIES
MESSI	133	0.82	1.09
C.RONALDO	87	0.48	0.98
ETO'O	97	0.54	0.74
HENRY	81	0.45	1.02
FORLAN	92	0.51	0.78
NISTELROY GOES	146	0.81	0.97
PERSIE GOES	79	0.44	1.16

We can see that his(her,your) total number(figure) and his(her,your) historical average accuse the long-suffering(hard-wearing) difficulties, but when it is a question of extracting his(her,your) better average to him(you,them), see that the number(figure) current scorer is at the level of the best of the table. 
More graphically we can see it here, comparándo the curve of learning bearing in mind the above mentioned average scorer, of Messi, Christian and Persie Goes. The green line is that of the Argentinian, the red one of the Portuguese and blue that of our protagonist. The vertical line marks the moment into which it(he,she) changes of the Eredivisie the Premier League. Up to(even) in three occasions the player has undertaken the climbed one over the curve. The first one in the Feyenoord, the second one in the season 2006-07, when it(he,she) seemed to have completed his(her,your) adjustment to England and exactly before his(her,your) worse season as for injuries and the third one, which looks like the definitive one, in the last two seasons and happens where in spite of the injuries it(he,she) has managed to progress.

Comparing his(her,your) rough(eventful) curve with that of both better scorers of last period, we see since(as,like) in a consistent way it(he,she) has been moving in an intermediate average, and we still have the doubt of if his(her,your) current average is the maximum that had reached in an earlier way or if it continues being a step before the even better one.

THE IMPROVEMENT OF HIS(HER,YOUR) EFFICIENCY

In the latter table we have compiled his(her,your) percentages of success(wisdom) to the arch and to goal in his(her,your) path in the Arsenal.

SEASON	%EFF. ARCH	%EFF. GOAL	GOALS / PARTIES
2004-05	69.0	11.2	0.32
2005-06	64.7	9.8	0.31
2006-07	43.9	16.7	0.60
2007-08	44.2	13.5	0.52
2008-09	31.0	9.5	0.44
2009-10	36.8	11.8	0.62
2010-11	44.3	18.6	0.88
2011-12	48.1	24.1	1.16

Persie observes how in his(her,your) first two seasons They Go he was a young and eager forward who saw door with facility though his(her,your) average scorers were to improve in a new league. The following year, when it(he,she) initiates his(her,your) climbed first one we see that scorer reaches a few averages to door more sensible for a player with the responsibility in a big equipment(team), but his(her,your) average to goal improves up to a few good enough levels.

Three following years, with his(her,your) comings and goings for the own(proper) injuries and of his(her,your) companions, throw a minor efficiency, trend that breaks the past season, when it(he,she) reaches his(her,your) better levels of efficiency and, as consequence, his(her,your) better(best) average scorer up to the date. In the information of the current season, till now the best, we see a notabilisimo 24.1 % of efficiency for shot, over 22.9 % of Messi and 18.9 % of Cristiano. If his(her,your) role in the Arsenal does not deteriorate for the injuries, his(her,your) struggle for the Golden boot can get longer until the end of the season.