Having survived Bayern Munich’s early velvet-glove strangulation,Arsenal and their frail alien princeling turned the Group F match on its headIn the course of a thrilling, relentlessly surprising 2-0 defeat of Bayern Munich – all deep defence and ravenous counterattack – Arsenal produced something genuinely scarce. Not just a victory against one of Europe’s heavyweights with their Champions League season still just about guttering with life. But a night of redemption and role reversal on a cinematic scale.
First of all it was a night of very un-Özil-like personal glory for Arsenal’s record signing, and scorer of the second goal that clinched this defeat of Germany’s champions. Mesut Özil,we’re told, doesn’t achieve the obvious. This is a player who operates on a plane beyond the hackneyed theatre of goals and assists, or but who is instead a kind of elite engineer,greasing the component parts, conducting only distantly, or above the meaty-pawed fray.
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Source: theguardian.com