My only concern would be the match fitness of the returning players. As good as a player is, usually they need to have a had a few games under their belts before we see the best and we do not have a few games to ease players back in. I am thinking more of Theo Walcott and Alex Song. While Cesc may need fine tuning, he still can see passes that other players do not and his ability to make the final

The taxi door slams shut and International football is driven away into the distance for this season which is wonderful news. All that International football provides for me is fear and worry, worry that an Arsenal player will disappear off the face of the earth.

Let us not forget that it was on International duty where Thomas Vermaelen suffered his achilles problem, the problem that was supposed to keep him out for a few days. Hearts where well and truly in mouths last night when Robin Van Persie was clattered into by a Hungarian player.

I missed all the International football last night as I was playing football myself but when I scrolled through twitter on my train, tweets of ‘RVP crocked’ or ‘Robin injured with knee problem’ came thick and fast. I must have sworn to myself a considerable amount of times, goodness knows what the other passengers thought of me, staring at my phone frothing like crazy.

News soon filtered through that the injury may not be very serious and that he was only brought off as a precaution. We all soon heard the Dutch coach say that Robin should be fit for the weekend which was a massive relief at the time until I remembered the whole injury shambles last season. I will wait nervously for Arsenal.com to hand us some good news, although knowing what the dot commers are like, it may arrive on Sunday morning.

Van Persie had scored a pretty good goal to put the Dutch 1-0 up and that is very good for him and hopefully for us. Goals breed confidence and we need to get back to scoring goals again. West Brom in the second half aside, goals have been a little few and far between over the last few weeks. That could all change because the worlds greatest name could well be close to a return.

Theo Van Nasregas.

Theo Walcott, Alex Song and Cesc Fabregas have been going through the paces while all the helter skelter of the Internationals have been going on. ‘Sami Nasri, Nasri, Sami Nasri!’ appears to have come through for the French without any obvious problem.

We have to go on a winning run, we have to get the confidence and belief back up and with those players being available for the run in then anything is possible.

Theo Van Nasregas can win the Premier League this season.

Another important part of the team that could be reunited again is the Song and Wilshere axis in the middle of midfield. I have yet to see Jack’s 70 minutes for England but from what I have read, it seems as if he erm, played like Jack Wilshere. With Song and Wilshere together we look a more balanced and fluid side.

My only concern would be the match fitness of the returning players. As good as a player is, usually they need to have a had a few games under their belts before we see the best and we do not have a few games to ease players back in. I am thinking more of Theo Walcott and Alex Song. While Cesc may need fine tuning, he still can see passes that other players do not and his ability to make the final pass is almost part of his famous DNA.

With Jack having played so many minutes of late and Wenger having both Ramsey and Diaby available we could end Saturday’s game with a midfield consisting of Song, Diaby and Ramsey depending on the score line and injuries. I really believe that our midfield has so many options of quality when each midfielder is physically and mentally in the right condition.

The midfield axis of Song and Diaby really excites me and I am truly surprised at how much stick a player of Diaby’s talent and strength receives.

It is almost the perfect midfield combination, one that consists of power, skill and dribbling. When Diaby has not had a run of games then he can be frustrating. I understand that frustration but I challenge anyone to find two games in a row where he has played poorly after having a decent run in the side. I keep on harping on about that but I consider it key to the argument. Players need games to be at their best.

This is not to say that Jack Wilshere does not deserve his place because he does. He has grabbed his opportunity with both hands and is now deservedly a first team starter. Had Diaby and Song started the season and developed the same understanding as the Wilshere/Song combination then I believe they would have been a key part of our season up to now.

It is just my opinion and it is something we will not know the answer to unless they are given an extended run together in the middle of the Arsenal midfield.

I have this opinion of the two because of a run they strung together at the back end of last season, in a slightly different variation of our current system and they were monsters in midfield and dominated in many games. It was around the time when we thrashed Porto at the Emirates because I sat at the Emirates thinking how good they worked together.

I am probably wasting my time with this as it is apparent that Abou Diaby has plenty of detractors and he can only prove them wrong once he manages to stay fit and ultimatley that has been his problem.

What we can all agree on is that Song, Jack and Fab provide us with great balance and let us cross fingers that they remain fit for the rest of the season as with the rest of the squad.

Back tomorrow for some more waffle I guess.