Wenger hails Ozil’s astounding recovery

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger heralded Mesut Ozil after the German playmaker rose from his sickbed to encourage his group to victory over most advantageous League name rivals Manchester city.

Ozil teed up first-half goals for Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud at the Emirates Stadium on Monday as Arsenal secured a 2-1 win that left them 4 points above town and two factors beneath leaders Leicester city.

Ozil, 27, now has 15 assists for the marketing campaign just 3 fewer than Cesc Fabregas’s league-main tally from final season and Wenger discovered afterwards that he had spent most of the previous week in bed.

“He had a chest contamination for the week and he turned into in bed, basically,” Wenger said.

“He had handiest one schooling session the day prior to this. So for a man who could not put together properly, he has executed extremely properly physically.”

notwithstanding Ozil’s position in the build-up, Walcott’s goal changed into in most cases his very own paintings, the england forward cutting internal his man from the left and curling an excellent right-foot shot within the right-hand submit from 20 yards.

However the assist for Giroud’s intention, in first-1/2 stoppage time, turned into antique Ozil, the previous real Madrid man sliding a pass into the route of the Arsenal centre-forward, who drilled a low shot between Joe Hart’s legs.

“at the end of the day you want one man who gives the ball to the only who scores the intention,” stated Wenger.

“In our crew, maximum of the time, Ozil is that this participant. The men who make you win. And he's that.”

Wenger also discovered that striker Alexis Sanchez has sustained a setback in his healing from a hamstring harm that is likely to hold him out of motion for 3 weeks.

Town threatened to snatch an incredible factor when Yaya Toure languidly stroked a left-foot shot into Petr Cech’s pinnacle-proper corner with eight minutes to play, however through then the damage had already been achieved.

With captain Vincent Kompany still absent due to a calf damage, town regarded susceptible at centre-back, in which Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi all over again toiled.