Arsenal Season 2015/16: Poor Özil

Mesut Özil(Germany) vs Ireland

9 October 2015, 00.15

Özil fails to perform against Ireland

Yesterday night, critizes flowing around Özil as World Cup Champions Germany fall short to a 1-0 defeated to Ireland that saw Shane Long scored the winner for Ireland in the 70th minute.

In fact, it's not just Özil failed to make an impact but the front-three (Gotze, Reus, Muller) as well. The focal point of this match centred around the inability of Germany to find the net, what's worse is that Germany only managed a shot-on target in the 80th minute as Jerome-Boateng goes for long shot that proved to be unvicious.

Useless trio vs Ireland

This was another match that reignites the debates of Özil's inability to perform consistently. Yes, Özil isn't the typical consistent player, but you don't deny that you are enjoyed watching Özil's football, as he is one of the most talented and gifted playmakers in the world. As most already know, Özil always make football looks so easy, and that's also the reason why people love to criticise him for being lazy just because he looks like he's relax and impassive in every match.

Lazy Özil? How about that

If one observe him in-depth one'll realized he's actually special and different from other player. This season, Özil has proved just enough to waved away the critizes on him since he arrived in Arsenal but there's no deny that Özil should have give out more and has plenty more to prove in the up-coming days despite the fact that Özil has played a big part in Arsenal's 3-0 home win over Man-United in his previous match. Frankly, Özil never managed more than a '1 assist and 1 goal' in his career in Arsenal. It's already a norm to see Özil provides assists in the Premier League, but fans woud like to see a '2 assist and one goal' or perhaps even a '3 assists and one goal' in a single match.

In this footbal-era, there's only three players in the world bagged a 2 hat-trick assists (3 assists in one game) under their belt. Messi and Angel Di Maria is in the list, perhaps to much surprise, Özil is one of them. Özil got it through matches in Arsenal vs Stoke and Germany vs Gibraltar, that's what playmakers do, provide and feed, Özil did it! That should be enough to shut up the criticism.