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Robin van Persie doubtful for Netherlands’ friendly against England

By 2011/08/07 8 Comments

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Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk will possibly have to make do without the services of attacker Robin van Persie when the Dutch take on England in an international friendly on Wednesday after the Arsenal ace picked up an ankle injury.

Van Persie sustained the knock in his side’s 2-1 friendly loss against Benfica on Saturday and stayed behind in the dressing room at half-time due to the ankle problem after opening the scoring in the 34th minute.

It’s not yet known how serious Van Persie’s injury is, but it’s unlikely that the 28-year-old will take any risks ahead of the start of the 2011-12 Premier League campaign. Therefore, he could well decide to withdraw from the Holland squad.

“It is an ankle problem, I don’t know how bad it is,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on the club’s official website.

The match between England and Netherlands will be played at Wembley and kicks off at 21:00 CET.

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  • Sawnet Shiferaw

    I also hope if z injury of him is not too serious!!

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  • jay

    you know what i think they’re getting suspiciously injured around about international friendly time you know hmmmm lol good i hate those friendly’s.

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  • Aussie Jack

    Better we lost the second half at Benfica without RVP giving him the perfect excuse to miss the `friendly` and be ready for Newcastle. Good thnking.

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  • Randall

    I agree with you guys.

    Most of the other bloggers have zero football IQ. You guys hit the nail on the head.

    Wenger is saying that Wilshere, RVP, Fab, Nasri etc have injuries but are not going into any indepth explanation because he doesn’t want them playing in the friendlies as in addition to the EPL starting next week we have a stretch of:
    Udinese – Liverpool – Udinese – Man U

    Master stroke by Wenger to keep the camp together for the club games!

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  • WOLF

    Finally some damn people that realize that we’re faking these injuries so they can be healthy for the start of the season.

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  • Randall

    Wolf, you know it mate. Wenger is feeding the media silly fodder.

    Come August 13th and you will see the full squad on the pitch at St. James Park.

    You know all the bandwagonist fans that complain – they don’t have an idea about football management and keeping your players ready.

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  • Fajri Nulhakim

    Why Bert van Marwijk ???

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