{"id":713,"date":"2019-02-28T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/emery-influential-ozil-happier-at-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T08:42:33","slug":"emery-influential-ozil-happier-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Emery: Influential Ozil &#039;happier&#039; at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> The midfielder made his first Premier League start in over four weeks against Bournemouth and his performance did not disappoint his manager <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Unai\u00a0Emery suggested Mesut\u00a0Ozil\u00a0has grown &#8220;happier&#8221; at Arsenal as he praised the playmaker&#8217;s stellar performance in the 5-1 thumping of Bournemouth on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Germany international shone on his first Premier League start since January 29, scoring the opener and registering an assist for\u00a0Henrikh\u00a0Mkhitaryan during a masterful first 45 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ozil, 30, has largely struggled to gain Emery&#8217;s trust since the Spaniard&#8217;s arrival at Emirates Stadium and was linked with a move away during the January transfer window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>  <span>Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; Pedro impress in Spurs win    Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show    Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over    Man City monitoring Barcelona &amp; Chelsea target Jovic    <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<p>But the ex-Real Madrid man\u00a0impressed his head coach with a mix of guile and graft against the outclassed the Cherries, stating a convincing case for selection in this weekend&#8217;s north London derby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good,&#8221; Emery responded when asked by the\u00a0BBC about\u00a0Ozil&#8217;s\u00a0performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s happier with us. I am\u00a0now also\u00a0very proud of players and the same with Mesut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He helped us with his quality and his work also to\u00a0organise\u00a0and play in different systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Koscielny, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and substitute Alexandre\u00a0Lacazette\u00a0joined\u00a0Ozil\u00a0and Mkhitaryan on the scoresheet, the Gunners blowing away\u00a0Bournemouth after Lys\u00a0Mousset&#8217;s\u00a0goal against the run of play\u00a0in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victory &#8211; Arsenal&#8217;s fifth in their last six Premier League fixtures &#8211; took on extra significance with third-placed Tottenham beaten 2-0 away to Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They can now close to within a point of Spurs when the teams meet at Wembley on Saturday, a chance Emery is eager to take with a home game against Manchester United to follow in the league eight days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s a big motivation,&#8221; he said of the derby. &#8220;We need to take the opportunity, like today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a great opportunity.\u00a0At the moment\u00a0they are better than us in the table and it&#8217;s difficult to win there. It&#8217;s a great test.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emery is hopeful centre-back Koscielny will be fit to feature against Spurs after he sustained a late knock in a lunging challenging from Joshua King.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow defender Sead Kolasinac will also be monitored closely, having reported a muscle problem prior to his 57th-minute substitution.<\/p>\n<p> <span><\/span> <span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The midfielder made his first Premier League start in over four weeks against Bournemouth and his performance did not disappoint his manager Unai\u00a0Emery suggested Mesut\u00a0Ozil\u00a0has grown &#8220;happier&#8221; at Arsenal as he praised the playmaker&#8217;s stellar performance in the 5-1 thumping of Bournemouth on Wednesday.\u00a0 The former Germany international shone on his first Premier League start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emery: Influential Ozil &#039;happier&#039; at Arsenal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}