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- Arjen Robben has started his first game for Groningen after returning to his boyhood side.
- He left Eredivisie in 2004, after moving from PSV to Chelsea.
- It took 16 years and 155 days for him to play his next Eredivisie game after leaving the Dutch top division for the English Premier League.
- And this interval is the largest in the Eredivisie's history, as Robben breaks another great forward, Robin van Persie.
- The Arsenal and Man United icon left Feyenoord in 2004 and returned to the same side in 2018. Van Persie spent 13 years and 267 days away from the Eredivisie.
- Interestingly, in his first game since Groningen return, Robben had to face his former team, PSV.
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