Mesut Özil: Time to Move Ön?

[Song Billong]

Its not a popular view in AM though. There are people who preferred Cesc before him. Now see where Cesc is

Credit to Cesc for what he did at this club, but he is simply an after-thought now thanks to Özil. Özil has washed away all the post-Cesc bile, anger and pain.

Özil has proven that he is a better player and has a level to his game that Cesc could never hope to reach IMO. Though in Cesc's defense he's nowhere near mobile enough to play like Özil, so he's a different kind if player.

 

[celestis]

Have to disagree with the bolded.

It isn't the best use of his strengths but it seems like Sanchez dropping deep is non-negotiable. Özil is the second-best off the ball runner in the squad so I suppose he has to play like this.

Agree with that , maybe even the best .

 

[RUS arsenal]

I counted 3.

There was a goalie?

 

[SYS]

There was a goalie?

Owen? Technically an ex player

 

[fc honka]

Saw only the last 15 minutes of the game, but heard the commentator say, that already before the goal he was the best Arsenal player. Had british commentating on my Viasat channel.

Checked also a few sites for ratings and he got
-9 best of all players
-8 best of all
-8.8 best of all
-4 stars out of 5 best of all
-8 best of all

Very hard to believe after these ratings, that he did not have a good game.

Hydro said it perfectly in his post. Earlier people have critized Özil for not scoring enough and not tracking back. Now he is doing both things better than earlier but now he is not giving assists enough or his assist are so easy, that any grandmom could have given those

Sometimes its hard to believe some people are serious or even half serious with their posts :confused:

 

[Song Billong]

And let's not forget his assist.

Love the shot-fake turned to a deft touch in a matter of a split second - to get the defender to commit to the slide tackle. I can't think that fast let alone get my foot to move like that.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Credit to Cesc for what he did at this club, but he is simply an after-thought now thanks to Özil. Özil has washed away all the post-Cesc bile, anger and pain.

Özil has proven that he is a better player and has a level to his game that Cesc could never hope to reach IMO. Though in Cesc's defense he's nowhere near mobile enough to play like Özil, so he's a different kind if player.

I love what Cesc did while he was here. He is still the closest thing to Santi I feel though so I'd have him back for £1m and £10k a week wages.

 

[SuperGoon]

Jury is like the Joker. He could rehabilitate himself and fall in love with Özil if he really wanted to, but he's gone too far to go back now.


Personally, I love it. He really gets an easy rise out of most people and even if that's not intentional and if he truly does believe Özil isn't a world class player then it's funny to see him try to convince himself otherwise.

 

[SYS]

Credit to Cesc for what he did at this club, but he is simply an after-thought now thanks to Özil. Özil has washed away all the post-Cesc bile, anger and pain.

Özil has proven that he is a better player and has a level to his game that Cesc could never hope to reach IMO. Though in Cesc's defense he's nowhere near mobile enough to play like Özil, so he's a different kind if player.

Definitely credit to Cesc for what he did here but cant overlook the improvement we have made from those days which is often the case. Judas was our best player from those days by a country mile but gets the most stick from us and he hates us back for the same.

 

[redanddread]

 

[say yes]

Not buying this criticism about Özil's game at all. Absolutely loving that he has added goals to repertoire.

Think this is 100% Wenger's doing: 3rd man runs are at the very core of Wengerball and I remember him doing exactly the same thing with Fabregas.

I don't see Özil doing anything incompatible with what he was doing last year- he has added to his game not fundamentally changed it and the assists will start flowing again soon.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

To get his assists going again, he need merely pass to himself.

 

[BaZZe]

I dont think that's in question here, dear. Go and play with your Cindy doll or something.

No need for misogyny come on

 

[Neo-Harambist]

Can't believe how he had that goalkeeper pulling air.

 

[celestis]

It's the sort of goal as a kid you taped on VHS and then went down to the park to recreate with your mates equipped with your Nikon EM camera .

 

[blaze_of_glory]

It's the sort of goal as a kid you taped on VHS and then went down to the park to recreate with your mates equipped with your Nikon EM camera .

And then you had a clear vid of the knee injury to show to the doctor!

 

[DasBootist]

It's the sort of goal as a kid you taped on VHS and then went down to the park to recreate with your mates equipped with your Nikon EM camera .

Never done dat.

Great, great goal, though.

 

[Rimaal]

This match had been edging towards an unsatisfactory conclusion, locked at 2-2 after a frenzy of first half goals, when the visitors’ substitute Mohamed Elneny clipped Özil beyond Ludogorets’ back-line. The German international advanced and, with the ball bouncing awkwardly, scooped it over Milan Borjan with his left foot as the goalkeeper advanced from his penalty area. Cosmin Moti and José Luis Palomino still hoped to thwart him having raced back towards the goalline, but Özil simply dropped his shoulder, left both centre-halves sprawled on the turf with a sway of his hips, and calmly slid Arsenal’s winner into the corner of the net.

The act of scoring was a thing of beauty, a goal worthier of a grander occasion than this, and a reminder of the quality Arsenal possess to extricate themselves from the most awkward of scenarios. “Great players make the right decisions in the game situations they face,” Arsène Wenger said with a chuckle. “They always take the optimum solution. To me, it didn’t look like the optimum solution, I’ll admit. You wanted him to take the chance earlier, but he had enough skill to prove he was right. When the ball was in the back of the net, it was clear it had been the optimum solution after all.”

As Özil was pursued by his team-mates on to the running track and into the smoke drifting from the celebratory flares lit by the away support, with this arena still in awe of his timely contribution, it was easy to forget Arsenal had actually been trailing by two goals after a quarter of an hour. At that stage, ignominy had beckoned. Even in the second half, once parity had been restored, they had risked dropping behind Paris Saint-Germain at the top of Group A for a while. The Parisians would conjure their own late drama in Basel, eventually prevailing 2-1 in stoppage time at the end, but Özil’s reward ensures an Arsenal victory against PSG on 23 November will see them claim the section.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ogorets-razgrad-champions-league-match-report

 

[Rimaal]

No need for misogyny come on

He needs it. It's all he's got to fall back on.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

This ****ing magician literally just scored the kind of goal Pogba scores in adverts. He flicked the ball over the keepers' head and sat two defenders down in several, small, crisp movements. Technically Mesut Özil is very much flawless. The composure he showed at a crucial time, the quality of his run, Elneny's pass.. simply outstanding.

In future, I'm not even going to contemplate entertaining arguments about who is a better no.10 than Özil. Not De Bruyne, not Coutinho, not Payet and certainly not FABREGAS. We've got the best in Mesut Özil. Drink it in maaaaaan.