Arsenal 1-1 Sheffield United: 5 Hits and Flops | Premier League 2019/20

#1 Flop: Mesut Ozil

Ozil was not at his best today

Under Mikel Arteta, Mesut Ozil has had a mini resurgence. The World Cup winner has been finding himself in the right positions, regularly pulling the strings in the final third. This is the complete opposite to things were under Unai Emery, where the 31-year-old rarely even made the matchday squad.

Arteta has instructed the playmaker to adopt wide positions on the counterattack, so he can then have a much better view of the pitch and attacking options ahead of him.

However, today might have been the German’s worst performance under Arteta yet. His touches were poor, his passes were overhit and he regularly lost the ball when Sheffield United put him under pressure. Chris Wilder’s men suffocated Ozil of space and time on the ball, something in which he didn’t have a response for.

In a match where he had little control in the final third, the 31-year-old had 59 touches of the ball, didn’t attempt a shot on goal, completed two dribbles, misplaced six passes and provided four key passes. Ozil was passive off the ball and ineffective on it.