In one instance today he showed his class and frustration. We punted a clearance forward ozil control it dead just in the united half but tried to spread the play wide and woefully under hit the ball.
In one instance today he showed his class and frustration. We punted a clearance forward ozil control it dead just in the united half but tried to spread the play wide and woefully under hit the ball.
That's fatigue.
When does Ozil usually under hit a ball? He doesn't. He has no energy in his legs. Hopefully Germany don't play him next week.
Yep El Clasico and the CL knockouts. This isn't a witch hunt against Mesut BTW because I love him, I think he's a special player. It's just I did read that he has a tendency to 'drift' in and out of games, especially the crunch/big games whatever you want to call them.Originally Posted by Syn
For a player who is new to this league he has racked up impressive numbers and performances, so I am not picking at his performances on the whole, I was just a bit disappointed with him today, I did expect more from him. I do agree with what others have said though, fatigue has played in his recent dip in performances.
Streets ahead of anyone else in this league.....
Lots of our now legends had slow starts to their Arsenal careers, so absolutely no doubt in my mind that he'll soon start putting in those 'GTFUO your seat and applaud' types of performances.
Needs a rest. He's not used to playing high intensity games every 3 days, in La Liga there's about 10 difficult games per season for RM, in the Prem there's 30.
Don't think he's up for much of the physical work but I certainly don't doubt his ability with the ball.
I would have taken him off rather than Cazorla.
I hope you aren't counting Bergkamp amongst those players, because he was pants throughout his Arsenal career.
has looked tired over the last couple of games. Not helped by being played wide right/left with noone to pass to.
he often produced the goods against barcelona and in the CL not to mention for germany so this big games talk has no substance.
I do wish he drove with the bal a bit more though because he has that in his locker.
Before Bergkamps first goals against Southampton when he was written off as a flop, he showed more moments of genius than this Ozil has so far. Just goes to show how out of control the twiiter/podcast/sky sports hype machine is these days tbh.
Indeed, judging a player after 2 and a bit months is far more sensible than looking at his career so far.
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