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Arsenal boss Wenger: I always knew Van Persie drought would not last

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger had no concerns over Robin van Persie's goal drought.

Van Persie scored his first goal in five league matches in Wednesday's 3-0 victory over Wolves - his 27th Premier League strike of the campaign.

"It does not look like he is worrying but you know that a striker who has scored in every single game but then has a period he does not like it," Wenger told arsenal.com.

"But I am convinced that he thought about it. I didn't worry at all, but the guys who score goals like to continue to score.

"What you can do one day, you can do the next. We are on a strong run and if you look at our last 10 games, we are defensively more stable because we have kept a few clean sheets.

"We can score goals and Robin van Persie comes out of a period when he scored a bit less. We still managed to win the games, that is positive."

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