Mesut Ozil can match Dennis Bergkamp - if he fires Arsenal to the Premier League title There is a statue of Dennis Bergkamp outside the Emirates and there are plenty of good judges who still argue that it is the Dutch master rather than Thierry Henry who should go down as Arsenal’s finest ever player. Not only did Ozil provide the assist for the first and score the second but he also created five other clear chances in frequently lacerating the Bournemouth defence, eye of the needle style, with a wonderful exhibition of passing. The wider statistics do also support the impression that the German World Cup winner has been delivering with comparable regularity and quality. As Wenger noted, Bergkamp tended to score more often and finished with 1. Premier League seasons. Ozil’s goal against Bournemouth was only his 1. Arsenal in 2. 01. Bergkamp at 0. 2. While Berkamp’s assist record also impressively reached double figures in four of his 1. Premier League seasons, his overall ratio of 0. Ozil’s record of 0. Ozil’s return for this season is a staggering 0. Henry’s all- time Premier League record of 2. How Bergkamp and Ozil compare. Numbers alone will not convey his pioneering pedigree. For the record though, Bergkamp plundered 120 goals in his time with Arsenal, making him the 10th highest.Ozil. Bergkamp. Goals per game. Assists per game. Goal involvement per game. So can we say that one is better than the other? In Bergkamp’s favour is that he delivered over a sustained period of more than a decade. Ozil’s statistics are similarly impressive but can he now maintain this excellence over such a prolonged period? Henry and Robert Pires would presumably have been rather more clinical with some of the chances that Ozil provided this season than Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud. They might also have created a few more opportunities for Ozil himself to score. He is a complete player.” To that end, the evidence of Ozil’s overall work- rate is encouraging. He has visibly and deliberately bulked up physically since coming to the Premier League and the heat map from Monday’s win against Bournemouth underlines not just how he covered almost every inch of turf across the attacking third but that he is also getting back more willingly to help the defence. ![]() ![]() The magic player Dennis so skill full. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Mesut Ozil can match Dennis Bergkamp - if he fires Arsenal to the Premier League title The German playmaker has been sublime this season and could become. ![]()
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