Mikel Arteta Reveals His New Vision For Mesut Ozil In Arsenal

Mikel Arteta has been told that his team must be brave in possession and playing fast, fluid football in order to profit from Mesut Ozil vision and playmaking abilities.




Mesut Ozil assist for Alexandre Lacazette match winning goal against West Ham was just his second of the Premier League season in his 18th appearance. Ozil has a single goal and three assists from 23 matches, having played for 1,812 minutes across those games.





It is a far cry from the numbers he has previously posted, the German’s best campaigns seeing him produce eight goals and 20 assists in 2015-16 and 12 goals and 14 assists in 2016-17.

Adrian Clarke thinks Ozil’s very best form is now behind him, he thinks the World Cup winning still has plenty to offer Arsenal team.

Clarke is confident he’s seen more from the former Real Madrid attacking midfielder of late under Arteta, who has restored Ozil back into the starting line-up after his exile under predecessors Unai Emery and Freddie Ljungberg. And he believes that the way for Arteta to extract the maximum of the German’s talents is to ensure the team around him are playing fast paced attack minded football that breathes confidence into its offensive players.

Arsenal much more effective player in an Arteta team than he was in either team Emery let behind and certainly the one that Freddie Ljungberg picked. He never included Ozil, or hardly ever.



Ozil is outstanding and I like his movement. He is hard working, even though people don’t think that, he moves around a great deal. I think with the way Arteta plays it, with his five lanes not to get too technical but you’ve got Saka, Aubameyang, Lacazette, Ozil and then Pepe in a front five really in that order.

That’s the best position for Ozil, he’s always been at his best in the right channel where he can chop back on his left and slip players in.

I think he could have had more assists and probably more goals in the games he has played under me which has been a little bit unlucky but overall I think that his performance has improved a lot.