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Once an opinion has been made, people are very reluctant to change it. That has never been truer than with football fans and the media.
Theo Walcott can never escape Alan Hansen’s comments on Match of the Day about him not having a footballing brain despite the former Southampton man developing into Arsenal’s most reliable finisher – if you don’t include Lukas Podolski who is on loan at Inter Milan.
Mesut Ozil, it seems, will never be able to shake his ‘flop’ tag – one that was ridiculously handed to him in the first place – with the media and football fans (yes, even fellow Gooners) labelling the World Cup winner lazy, ineffective and overrated.
Those comments remain despite Ozil covering the seventh-highest distance by an Premier League player at the weekend and the fact German international has the third highest assists-to-minute ratio in the history of England’s top flight.
The latest infographic used by Sky Sports, in order to highlight Alexis Sanchez’s drop off in form, was used as a bizarre way to take a swipe at Mesut Ozil.
Again, you have to be of a certain level to appreciate his genius and I worry that he never will.
https://twitter.com/BBCSporf/status/573059601463160832
I don’t think the comparison is valid. Before the return of Özil the team was incomplete, due to injuries. So Sanchez was scoring all the goals. Now the team is in full force, so more players are scoring. Arsenal has the largest number of scorers in the PL.