Ozil is more than good enough to play the issue we have is playing the right formation to suit him as he needs two cms behind him so that means luiz will struggle unless we drop Pepe and use ozil with laca and auba ? I would of preferred him to play being as we have struggled to break down shit teams like villa and brighton
I think if we were gonna play Ozil against Villa and we wanted to stick with the 3 man back, the best bet would have been a 3-4-1-2. Basically put Eddie on the bench, play Laca & PEA as a ST pair with Ozil as a AM/SS behind them. PEA & Laca can drift a little wide giving us a similar shape to the 3-4-3 but you give Ozil the free role to go where ever he pleases.
Well yeah, if it were 2005, or 2010, and maybe even 2015. Unfortunately, the evolution of the game has gone one way, specifically with emphasis toward player mobility, and Ozil's career has gone the other. PEA's second goal against City is a useful example in some ways, though a bit atypical in others. Before PEA finished it, the creative force behind that goal was the movement from TIerney and and Pepe. The assist itself was a great ball from Tierney but without disparaging Tierney it's the sort of thing that most of our players would have seen. Not all of them would have pulled it off, but if we were going to create a goal threat from that counterattack, that was the ball to hit. What makes Ozil special isn't his technique, though that's great, it's his vision. He sees the game a beat or two ahead of everybody else. At his best, he can execute things that don't even occur to us as fans, where we have the God view of the broadcast cameras. That's great, but it doesn't happen often enough. And even when it does, most of the time it doesn't actually lead to a goal. The way to routinely score five goals a game like City, Liverpool, and to a lesser extent Spurs is to put the opposition under continuous pressure through movement. And that goes whether you're playing with possession or on the counter. Back to the City game. Pepe got a deflection of the City corner at the edge of the Arsenal penalty box (which he headed to Tierney). A few seconds later he received the ball from Tierney in the City half. Ozil would never have been in both places in that time frame. Maybe not either one, but definitely not both. Also, the ball from Pepe to PEA in that circumstance was not on. Pepe was a little bit ahead of PEA, who hadn't really started his run yet. So if Ozil was there in place of Pepe, it wouldn't have helped. TLDR: the foundation of buildup play is player movement, not "unlock the defense" technique. Ozil doesn't help our player movement, and at his worst he stagnates it.
This. X10 I think I said something similar 100 posts up. Ps. Watch Arteta prove us wrong by starting Ozil for our last game! Or patching things up so he can regain a big role next season. Nah!
https://arseblog.news/2020/07/the-stats-dont-lie-arteta-reflects-on-arsenals-creative-struggles/ At least Arteta recognizes the creativity problem. I’m not sure Emery ever did.