Granit Xhaka: Swiss Army Knife or Blunt Tool?

[EmeryCouldnt]

Xhaka always has good games, never in doubt. I rarely see Xhaka have a bad game.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Played some good passes, relatively solid but I just cannot stand it when he has the time and space to turn but his head is down and he passes the ball backwards. It's a flaw that just seems cannot be fixed. We can really up the tempo so much in that area of the pitch

 

[Tir Na Nog]

 

[Football Manager]

We might see more of those balls from him now. Tierney looks to play them fairly often so I think it may be something Arteta wants them to do.

Seems some people only rate this kind of pass.
Accurate cross field long passes that find our attacking players in space are great passes too.

 

[Oxeki]

How did that cnut Hector not get a yellow card for that dangerous tackle on Xhaka?

 

[HairSprayGooners]

Think he is a main stay in this team. A leader in the midfield.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

People need to stop hating xhaka even if we signed Aouar Partey he'll be first name in midfield.

Xhaka been incredible with mikel so he deserves our support and praise instead of hating

 

[Football Manager]

Played some good passes, relatively solid but I just cannot stand it when he has the time and space to turn but his head is down and he passes the ball backwards. It's a flaw that just seems cannot be fixed. We can really up the tempo so much in that area of the pitch

Did you ever watch how Spain/Barcelona/Bayern/City plays?

They pass the ball around and keep possession.

If it’s a sideway pass/a backwards pass, it’s alright, it's good. Be patient until you find the opportunity to play a forward pass.

 

[Sniper Mik]

Did you ever watch how Spain/Barcelona/Bayern/City plays?

They pass the ball around and keep possession.

If it’s a sideway pass/a backwards pass, it’s alright, it's good. Be patient until you find the opportunity to play a forward pass.

I'm not against sideways and backwards passing. I'm talking about those moments where he in acres of space but he isn't aware of it because he hasn't looked over his shoulder. Also his one-footed-ness doesn't help. He is a good distributor when he is facing the right way.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Arteta is really getting tbe best out of him.

 

[DanDare]

Xhaka under Arteta isn't a bad proposition. Not sure we'll ever leave 3 ATB with him here but perhaps with some other midfield addition.

He's improved dramatically from his worst period

 

[Trilly]

Good performance from Xhaka today. I wish he would play that ball over the top and break lines more often. He has the ability to do it regularly but he probably lacks the confidence to do so.

Think it’s tactical. For Switzerland the other day he was attempting loads of those.

 

[kash2]

xhaka really made all the haters eat crow. Amazing what real talent and real toughness can do.

 

[BigPoppaPump]

Out of all the groups of haters on this forum (Özil, Laca etc) the Xhaka haters are the ones who take the most Ls, it's sad to see.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

hahaha ffs, people used to post this stuff about Flamini 2.0 too.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

Out of all the groups of haters on this forum (Özil, Laca etc) the Xhaka haters are the ones who take the most Ls, it's sad to see.

No one has been “no ones safe”’d on Xhaka yet. But it’s hard to deny that everyone looks better under Arteta.

There have been so many Ws for the antiXhaka group in the past several years, are you kidding? lol

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

I get that Xhaka looks decent now. He was solid today and under Arteta in general. You guys revising his history are ridiculous though.

I’ve never been specifically antiXhaka. It’s this revisionism that is a bit disgusting to me.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

How did that cnut Hector not get a yellow card for that dangerous tackle on Xhaka?

With all the fouls he had it was beyond laughable. An Arsenal player doing that would have been sent off two or three times. Just ridiculous.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

This and the Özil really are the homes of the baby crew. More forum warriors than Arsenal fans.

If you rate a player just be happy that he is playing better. Don’t try to rewrite history or go over the top with every average performance. Really doesn’t put you in a great light.

 

[Taneruit]

This and the Özil really are the homeS of the baby crew. More forum warriors than Arsenal fans.

If you rate a player just be happy that he is playing better. Don’t try to rewrite history or go over the top with every average performance. Really doesn’t put you in a great light.

And there we are again with calling people that defend Xhaka *Not Arsenal Fans*. Yeah, you're on a sooooo much higher moral ground.

Pathetic.

And I'll say Xhaka has improved (Under Arteta his tackeling most of all) BUT he has done a lot of those things before as well. No historical revisionism about that.. His stats (which by the way hilariously get ignored or ripped apart every time they get brought up) support that. Except before a lot of the work he's done got ignored or went by unnoticed.