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I find it odd that Coquelin and Cazorla are under such scrutiny in the midfield and question marks hang over Sanchez, Theo and Ox's place in the squad yet nobody questions a man that has 0 assists and 1 goal out of 5 games. He needs a big game on Saturday.
The difference is Ozil despite your opinion has good credit, by far our most consistent performer last season. And Coq and Cazorla were injured for significant parts of last season, and their partnership currently looks like it's leaving our defence too exposed.
Don't get me wrong, it's not to say Ozil doesn't need to up his game, he blatantly does but it's my opinion in that sense he'd need to form a qeue where Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla are all in front of him.
And actually I'm amazed this isn't being discussed, Monreal has been a total liability for us for most of 2016 he's slow and gets turned so easily....if I was Chelsea manager I'd look to target us down our left side
He's not as his best but I don't think it's a coincidence that Ox and Iwobi have been there when he's having problems either.
last season he was fine.
What's the alternative, play Gibbs? I think he's done OK considering we've had Iwobi and Ox playing there as Kano said.
In regards to the defence being exposed because of Cazorla and Coquelin, what's the alternative? I think it's exposed because of our flawed game plan. Zero pressing and unorganised. Until we take a serious hiding, Wenger won't adopt a more cautious approach with our defending. It's a pattern and until get a beating, he won't set us up to not concede goals. I suspect he still feels we're losing out on titles because of the lack of goals and is trying to get the midfield to play higher up the pitch.
As for Ozil and last season, he checked out after the New Year. It's a concern that his game hasn't picked up and especially since we're playing without Giroud who took a large part of the blame for Ozil's game drying up last season. If it turns out that Ozil can't play with a striker that tends to drop deep, but Iwobi and Theo are able to thrive off the space Sanchez is leaving, what's the options left on the table? Perez up front?
He was the EPL's top assister last season and has a long impressive assist stat history, it would be a bit weird to suddenly start questioning him after a few poor games.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
You didn't hear the stat about Coqzorla amassing 89 points for us over their last 38 games for us? Easily our best duo in the midfield from last season. A bit off this season but we haven't lost with them in the side just yet and they've only played 3 games together. But anyway, if people are comfortable calling that duo into question considering their history, why is it nuts to question Ozil especially when this is a very underwhelming start to the season.
Does he not need a big performance on Saturday?
It has already been explained why Ozil's stats fell away last season. It was down to the cowardice of one man and his lack of ambition. If we rid ourselves of this man then not only Ozil but all our players will benefit immensely. Until then, there is hardly any point discussing individual players when the elephant in still stampeding around the room. If we lose to the chavs again it will be down to the usual reasons. Disorganisation, fear, a lack of bottle. The usual stuff that is the hallmark of Wenger. Can he try something different this time? Can he shake his fear and his deep desire to play it safe and send his team out there to compete? Doubtful. But if he relents then we have all seen what this team and the individual players can do. The players are more than good enough to beat these ordinary chavs. Whether they can beat Wenger too, well that's always the challenge.
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We already know that stat is entirely misleading because we've ended up with fuck all while amassing those 89 points. Which basically means we don't win when it really matters. All we really need to know is that something is preventing this team competing until the end, season after season. We know what that something is and it has absolutely nothing to do with Cazorla OR Ozil for that matter. It hasn't mattered which players have been brought in, the result has been consistent failure. It is surprising that 12 seasons after this rather obvious flaw materialised many fans still struggle to identify it.
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NQ, all the above is as much as a cop out as those that try to excuse Wenger's faults and pin all the blame on the Board.
Also, we know the man is deeply flawed but we can't go as far as saying everything he does is flawed. I've seen games where we've made the correct team selection, played at the right pace but have somehow come out with the wrong result. Sometimes the players have to take responsibility. Considering we're trying out new players in different positions, it's worth sitting back and looking at how this all pans out without immediately blasting Wenger. If he makes obvious selection gaffs, fair enough but when we're taking about a pacy front 3 with Ozil behind, I don't know how to explain the lack of assists even with Wenger's flaws.
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