by elkanofan » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:44 pm
Comparison to him at Madrid to him last season
like i said in the comment:
I think a better comparison would be him at Werder Bremen to how he is now.
At Madrid his entire game was passing the ball to Cristiano and Benzmea, he didn't score much, he didn't even dribble that much he was all pure passing on the counter usually or using his exceptional vision. I actually preferred him at Bremen where he had lots of freedom and was more all round, would do everything, score, assist, dribble took wonderful free kicks also. His first season at Arsenal he'd come straight from a counter attacking team to a possession based team so his game didn't really fit into our style. The premier league is easier than spain since you get more space, teams are very naive, thats not the issue, it's more he has to go back to his Bremen days i think!
He's supposed to be world class, but in all honest his game at Madrid became more and more one dimensional, being too pass based, last season i could see his issue vs West Ham away, he had about 3, 4 chances to shoot and his only intention was to pass. We all know it's very political at Madrid and the gameplan really is to work hard and pass to cristiano to score, he's become so drilled into that the rest of his game isn't at a world class level.
Needs to go back to that, play with more freedom! It's been too long since Ozil scored a beautiful goal where he beat 2 players with a dribble and a classy finish. Thats why i'm thinking also we need to keep him out on the right so he tries to go back to how he used to play at Bremen he's no Cristiano's personal assistant like at Madrid anymore.
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elkanofan on Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.