Arteta delighted with Ozil's 'incredible attitude' after offering clean slate

Mikel Arteta has praised Mesut Ozil for his "incredible" attitude after restoring the Arsenal midfielder to his starting XI for the 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.

"To be fair, his attitude in training since the day that I walked in the building has been incredible," Arteta told reporters.

"I've seen this and I said I would give a clean slate to everybody and that was for him too.

"When we were preparing and watching where we could hurt the opponent, we believed he could be a key point.

"Like this, he responded, did what he had to do and we could have put two or three goals in the net because of him."

The Gunners did not have a shot on target in the first period and trailed at the break after Gosling struck 10 minutes before half-time.