What do Arsenal fans actually think about Ozil. He just seems a player who flatters to deceive to me, always has. Up for it when its an easy game, but goes missing when a bit of fight is needed. I know he can do some lovely passing from time to time, but he doesn't seem to do it consistently.
Top drawer player, somewhat erratic in big games for us (some good, some not so good to say the least) but he is a player who needs certain things to be going on around him. He is a man who picks the passes and makes runs though should get more goals then he does, if the midfield is losing control as we do too often in big games then he isn't going to win that battle. If we aren't making the right runs, he can't pick a pass. There is a case for dropping him for a more battling three in certain games but he is not the problem
Its a shame if he ends up being remembered in a bad way as someone who ruined arsenal,
The glories of the old will still outshine the bad of recent years however much now is the time for him to go.
In a game like this, one needs to be able to defend. Chelsea can as nearly every game, they put up a formidable barrier and I imagine Conte will be working them on setplays after today. We can't keep a cleansheet at all. Cech's error for the third? That can happen. The first two goals? You don't see Chelsea conceding too many of those but every week, you see Arsenal conceding things like that. Not quick enough to read the danger, a bit sloppy, time and time again this season. Once we conceded the first, you knew we would making ourselves utterly vulnerable to counter-attacks and so we did, no "keep our heads, keep it tight", we left gap after gap for the front three to hit. Wenger has actually coached good defences but he only does it for a spell, usually when a season has gone wrong, and then seems to forget the need to do it the next season.
Felt our midfield tactics were pretty good in first half, we competed well there but Wenger proceeded to spend the entire second half tearing that up, allowing the game to get further and further away from us as he unbalanced the team. Wenger has moments of inspiration but as a tactician, he has never been good. Our attack never functioned, we had two (I think) chances from open play, it was from good setplays that we had our best moments but we needed more of a cutting edge.
Groundhog day though overall.
