Ozil outlined his dissatisfaction in an emotional Instagram post earlier this week but vowed to do everything within his powers to ensure an often turbulent seven-year spell in north London would end on a happier note.
While his team-mates were strutting their stuff in Austria, Ozil attempted to keep his 21.5million followers on Twitter entertained by posting a series of tweets during the game, predicting the scoreline, offering words of encouragement to goalkeeper Bernd Leno and running a poll on the man of the match awards.
Asked for his reaction to Ozil’s social media commentary, Arteta said: ‘This is great! This is what I want from all the players that aren’t in our squad. I didn’t expect anything different to that, so it’s good to hear.’
Okay then, let's go Gunners!!! 😁❤️💪🏼 #UEL #COYG #YaGunnersYa #M1Ö @Arsenal pic.twitter.com/aNIDFewHyy
— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) October 22, 2020
‘No,’ he added bluntly when asked if the Ozil circus was becoming a source of frustration and a distraction.
‘I think it’s part of the situation that we have. When we have big players in this position, it’s normal that people want to know and fans want that information and you have to ask the questions. ‘So I take it in a natural way, I try to respond with honesty and clarity and give the information that is available from the inside.’
Arteta’s side earned three valuable points with two goals in the space of five second half minutes through David Luiz and substitute Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. On the nature of the victory, Arteta said: ‘We knew it would be a difficult match and we made it a little bit harder with a few of the decisions we made and the goal we conceded, which if anything is my fault because I demand those things. ‘But I really liked the reaction, in the second half we understood much better the spaces that we have to attack, we played with more purpose and we generated much more, even though we conceded a late chance with another misunderstanding at the back.’
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