Arsenal’s Russian international Andrei Arshavin (pictured lower) climbed to the top 6 of the FTBL ranking of forwards in the English Premier League with a goal in the Gunners’ 4:1 clobbering of lowly Wolverhampton Wanderers yesterday.

The Russian earned 8.38 rating points in the FTBL system to boost his tally to 150.6 points and grab the 5th spot in the ranking.

Arshavin remains the undisputed leader in our ranking of Russian forwards, ahead of Spurs’ Roman Pavlyuchenko (87.63 points).