The little Russian has not been on his best form of late, and was replaced in Wednesday’s match against Partizan Belgrade by Theo Walcott after failing to have much of an impact on the game.
Wenger however, is not concerned by such problems because Arshavin is given the responsibility of making the difficult passes and dribbling through the defence, and so is more prone to mistakes.
"He has a game that is based on risk," Wenger told reporters.
"He tries to make incisive passes so of course when he takes one risk and it doesn’t work for him he takes another one. So sometimes people are impatient with his decision making.
"But if you look at the numbers of Arshavin in the Premier League you will see that he is the best passer and has more assists than anybody so that means [his game is] based on gambling but as well [it is] very efficient.
"He doesn’t frustrate me because I invite him to play the game that is Arshavin’s game. That means to go forward and provoke.
"There are some days it doesn’t work but Arshavin has great quality: he analyses very well, is very honest and has a fantastic objective assessment of his own performance.
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