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Rice hails Arsenal skipper Van Persie after goal scoring performance

Arsenal No2 Pat Rice was full of praise for skipper Robin van Persie after their draw at Champions League opponents Borussia Dortmund.

Van Persie struck a superb opener for the visitors before they were pegged back.

"It is nothing unusual to see Robin do something like that. It was a great run from Robin and it was also a terrific ball through [from Theo]. It is unusual to see Robin hit it with his right foot but it proves that he is not just a left-footed footballer," Rice told arsenal.com.

"Robin is obviously the Club captain and we encourage him to be verbal both on the park and also off it, especially in the dressing room. He was just asking me one or two things that he thought we could have done better and I was just saying one or two things that we could actually do to make the team better."

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