Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain placed in exalted company by Arsène Wenger and Robin van Persie "I feel that is always a brand of top players," he said. They just play.When you saw Wayne Rooney start he played like it was natural, the same with Cesc Fabregas. They are happy on the football pitch and comfortable. Despite Wenger's insistence that he does not want to ramp up the pressure on the teenager, that was some comparison in the wake of the destruction of Blackburn, Arsenal's biggest victory in this stadium. And Wenger's mind flicked back a couple of weeks to the crushing 3-2 defeat to Swansea City that, nevertheless, had one positive impact: Oxlade-Chamberlain's cameo from the substitutes" bench. He has been in the team ever since. "When he came on at Swansea I felt "oomph,"" Wenger said. He had an impact straight away and in a very difficult game he was mature. I thought he had made a big improvement there. His defensive work has stepped up as well. But with the ball at Swansea he created danger. Unsurprisingly, Wenger likened Oxlade-Chamberlain's impact to that of Jack Wilshere's last season which meant, given the teenage midfielder's injury crisis this campaign, it came with a health warning. "At the start of the season you think: "I will play him 20 games, maybe 25,"" Wenger said. When they deliver a performance they play 45 games and then they play for the national team and then they get injured. It's very difficult to manage because people understand very quickly what kind of influence the players have and you want to win the game so you play them. It was an argument delivered ruefully given the unwarranted criticism Wenger faced for withdrawing Oxlade-Chamberlain in his first league start last month against Manchester United. "I don't know where I've seen it but 70 per cent of the players who play very early in many, many games have stress fractures," he said. In England the intensity of a game is higher. There isn't just the comparison with Wilshere - there is also Theo Walcott. Although, despite the obvious parallels in terms of pacy wide-players and with both coming from Southampton, Wenger insisted things were very different. "The only thing I would say is that Chamberlain already had a complete season in League One and he survived quite well," he said. Walcott went to the 2006 World Cup without having played in the Premier League at all, so it was a bit early. And for a while I felt that the pressure was on Walcott because nobody had seen him. "He didn't play in the World Cup and when he came back people said: "OK, he has been at the World Cup, now he has to deliver something special." But you've seen now that Theo is developing very well. And comparisions continued withVan Persie admitting he sees himself in Oxlade-Chamberlain. "It reminds me of my own period when I was breaking through and was 18 or 19," he said. He's not someone who thinks about negatives, just positives and you can enjoy the game like that. I had that as well when I was younger. I wasn't thinking about: "oh, big stadium, or big game." I was just enjoying myself. Is he also of a standard that would challenge for a place at the Euro 2012 finals? Van Persie replied: "There are lots of good attacking players there, but why not?" Why not, indeed. The triumvirate of Van Persie, Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain ran riot against a frankly woeful Blackburn side who can hide behind also sorts of excuses including Gaël Givet's correct first-half dismissal for a foolish two-footed lunge, but they would probably have been defeated by a similar score-line with a full complement of players. Van Persie collected a hat-trick, twice being afforded tap-ins by Walcott, to overhaul countryman Dennis Bergkamp and rise to 10th in Arsenal's all-timers scorers list, with 123 goals, while Oxlade-Chamberlain showed a predatory instinct to strike twice himself and claim his first Premier League goals. The pick was his first - a clever, cross-field run, an even smarter reverse pass by Van Persie and a nerveless finish. A deflected Mikel Arteta shot and another by Thierry Henry - in probably his last appearance at the Emirates - completed Arsenal's scoring while Morten Gamst Pedersen's curling free-kick to make it 1-1, was quickly a distant memory.