Ball being played over your left shoulder as you run onto it and it arrives when you're about 3 yards in front of goal with nothing but the keeper to beat and you cushion it backwards to your left to a player you hope will be able to control it and stick it away? Rather than take some form of touch that will direct the ball on goal but without taking too much pace off of it?
Sorry, not buying it. That and his slightly startled and then relieved look back at Lacazette makes me believe it was luck.
But you're right, had it been Ozil or Bobby or Dennis there would have been zero question in my mind that he meant it.