"It's Not You, It's Them" - The Continuing Mesut Ozil Lovefest Thread

Defense is mostly about grit and determination, if you can't contribute defensively it's either down to tactics or desire. That's why players like Raul and Higuain can be effective without scoring goals, they've got heart. I'm not taking shots at Mezut because for all I know Mourinho has told him defense is not important. We know Ronaldo and Kaka get a pass in this department but defense isn't hard its hard work.

 

Defence is not only just tracking back. I still remember last years CL match against Milan where Ozil pretty much neutralized Pirlo and destabilising their game. I know angel is more of a work horse than Ozil and no one will complain about Ozil's defensive vulnerabilities if he gets his offensive part right.

 

Di Maria's defensive work is a bless of course, it always entertains me seeing the opponent's goal keeper or defender getting nervous when on the ball because Di Maria run like crazy toward them. However, when having a bad game Di Maria usually turns into turnover machine, so at that case his defensive plus is not a plus point anymore, just something very handy to clean up his own mess.

Anyway, Ozil & Ronaldo did trackback & do defensive work, even though not in the same league as Di Maria.

Ozil this season almost always do that actually. He wasn't great at it, mostly because he can't tackle, generally average at pressuring, & sucks at aerial duel. But he's quite excellent at intercepting (he made decent amount of steals by intercepting and initiated a couple of counter attacks from that) & he's getting better at reading the opponent game. Did anybody notice Ozil stopped the opponent's counter attack in Zaragoza game (the one after Marcelo misspassed right to the opponent)? He marked one of them & his run pressured the opponent until losing control over the ball when 1v1 againts Iker. Ozil also stopped another opponent's counter attacks in similar way at Racing game.

Ronaldo not always do all those dirty work, but he did that at times, the most prominent example probably our supercopa first leg game.

Not sure if that's meant toward Ozil or Ronaldo or both. But I think you are wrong if you think since Ozil do zero defensive work (which is not the case) then he's completely innefective without scoring/maybe assisting goals. Ozil is playmaker afterall not striker or second striker. His contribution in playmake, build up, initiating the play, & creating spaces are the most important thing, not the goals or assists.

And Ronaldo, even without scoring goals & doing anything else on the pitch Ronaldo's presence itself help a lot in open up spaces for his teammates because he usually takes at least 2 defenders to mark him.

 

Amazes me how one of our top performers from the entire season last year is all of a sudden thought of as a liability. Reminds me of how a few are only happy when we win 5 or 6-0, bash the team for close games, then complain about the leagues competitiveness. Come on man...

I'd understand if Ozil was 25 and only played a couple good months in two season but that is far from what is happening.

Right now we don't even need him to find his form, I rather him bid his time warm all thee way up then be on fire for the second half of the season (especially the usually hard early start) when we'll need his abilities.

 

Unfortunately, there will always be someone at some time that will get scrutinized. First it was Marcelo, then it was Higuain. Then Benz came along and he got his share. Kaka got manhandled for a while as well. Recently, Di Maria was having his fair share of bashing until the last few games were he upped his game. You can actually sense that if Ronaldo has a few more bad games I'm forecasting people will start asking for him to be sold

But seriously, is there one player that didn't get massacred on this forum? It's a vicious circle. We're never going to have ALL of our players in top form at all times. Due to that, if there is one player that is in a slump, then lo and behold God help him.

Sadly it's Ozil's turn now. He showed us last year what a great player he is, and there is no way in hell that talent is going to disappear over one season. It's just his turn now

 

I'm not talking about those last few pages. I'm talking in general and in game threads, and he was bashed to no end. Some one even said how he wished we had Silva instead of him.

Just because the general opinion of the few "regulars" here (or your own opinion only) that Di Maria needs to "step up his game" doesn't mean it's the only opinion on this board. There's a handful of posters who bash repeatedly.

 

It is one of the "village idiots" or whatever they're called on these forums. Regardless, they're entitled to their own opinion just like you and I are even if it's a stupid retarded one.

How am I getting worked up I was simply replying to YS telling him in a very calm and understanding matter that that's just the way it is and if anything, my post simply showed that I understand that's how it works on here and I'm very used to it.

 

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I think you shouldn't term people as 'village idiots'. Why are you assuming that people from the villages are idiots?

I think they are pretty smart, and just because they are not as polished/educated as city folk doesn't mean that they are 'idiots'. Most village people I met are in fact smarter than city people in most practical matters.

One famous guy once said " the essence of any culture of a country is in its villages "

Now lets continue with the Ozil lovefest

 

Lol...

It is "the village idiot". As in: "There is an idiot in every village". It does not mean every person from a village is an idiot. It means every village has one.

In this case, the "village" is this forum.

 

Village Idiot = The person or persons in the village which are the idiot(s). Everyone in the village (our forum) is aware they are therefore we label them as such.

 

Oh. I misunderstood. I am the idiot in this village.

 

Each village has one idiot and at least one bitch.
This is regardless the religion or the nation that village belongs too.

 

So we're the lucky ones that got the 2 for 1 deal with you, huh?

 

Anybody see this yet? Mesut speaking Spanish! This is the first interview I've come across where he actually tries out his Spanish. It was after the Lyon game this week.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mnwbF4c9sc"]Mesut speaking Spanish (with subtitles) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSR1jimOjs"]Mourinho y Özil no se entienden Marcatoons en HD - YouTube[/ame]

 

Oezil trying out German after a while

http://tv.dfb.de/index.php?view=3892

 

Is it generally accepted by RM fans that a lineup including the simultaneous fielding of Ozil and Kaka is to be preferred to a lineup fielding only one of the two at any given time?