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Karine Grigoryan

08-09-2018 | 15:32 Football
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Alex Iwobi has key upper hand over Ozil and Mkhitaryan

Arsenal’s new era is leaving some people behind, but the young players may be in the best position to start fresh, and that includes Alex Iwobi.

Arsenal has played 4 games and could earn 6 out of 12 points.

Expert Pain In The Arsenal, studying the Gunners' game, concluded that Emery's weak link is not only the line of defense, but also the attacking midfielders do not impress with their game, although it was assumed that the creative line of midfield will be Arsenal's strongest side.

"Aaron Ramsey has been fantastic, as can be expected.

But Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan have not been good. Mkhitaryan has been got for all of twenty minutes. Ozil has been good for at least a handful of minutes. I think. Maybe not at all, it’s hard to say. And I’m not just being pessimistic.
Alex Iwobi, meanwhile, has been given a great shot to assert himself and has taken it as well as can be expected. At no point have I thought that he was a liability. At no point have I wished him off the pitch. If anything, I like he should have been left on for longer. I still don’t trust Iwobi more than the other two. That is going to take a long time for me to commit too. But I do think there is one key area that Iwobi has an upper hand in, and that’s that he is far more malleable than either Mkhitaryan or Ozil. We have spent months discussing how Ozil could possibly fit into Umai Emery’s schematics and thus far, he can’t. Mkhitaryan looked to be more capable of doing so, but it’s still a work in progress. Both of these guys have been around the block, and possess far less capacity for change.
Iwobi is different. He is desperate for direction and if Emery can give him that, then he can become what we want him to become. He has a wide open capability to change himself to fit the current era and that’s something the other two can’t say."

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