This place must be deaded - not a single thread or comment on Ozil

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Originally Posted by Rich

Bournemouth are a side that give you very little time on the ball. Perhaps Unai felt that Ozil's languid demeanor wouldn't work so well against The Cherries?

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Maybe Unai is one of those stat reliant types, and sees that this season we concede far more , and score less* when Ozil is on the pitch

*might not be true

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Originally Posted by Rich

Bournemouth are a side that give you very little time on the ball. Perhaps Unai felt that Ozil's languid demeanor wouldn't work so well against The Cherries?

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He's one of the world's best players, R. He didn't get that way by avoiding the cannon fodder and only playing against the good sides.

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Mkhytarian had a poor match and is the current figure of hate. Some of the criticism as is the way within the Arsenal family is extremely over the top.

As for Ozil I am not sure you specifically do not pick a player in order to avoid injury. A player carrying a knock or strain or whatever yes, but otherwise no. They are footballers, playing football is what they do.

I have no idea for why he was left out yesterday but keeping him fresh for Spurs would seem a little bizarre.

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When Mesut has a mare against Spurs we can say that he wasn't fully match-fit, having just had a month off :homer:

Anyway, maybe he'll play against Vorskla? Even Eduardo scored against them.

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

He's one of the world's best players, R. He didn't get that way by avoiding the cannon fodder and only playing against the good sides.

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True but he does seem to have ongoing back issues and perhaps UE was just taking precautions?

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

Even Eduardo scored against them.

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Eduardo even scored against us.

You leave the floppy legged Brazilian-Croatian alone...