Two Arsenal stars made it into WhoScored’s Premier League Team of the Week for the most recent round of fixtures, after the team’s victory over Southampton on Sunday.
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Arsenal’s French striker Alexandre Lacazette celebrates with Arsenal’s Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka after scoring during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Southampton at the Emirates Stadium in London on February 24, 2019. (Photo by Ian KINGTON / AFP / Getty Images)
In general, Xhaka was just as good in this match as in his fantastic performance against BATE Borisov on Thursday. He ran the game from the base of midfield, played more accurate passes than anybody else (in total and percentage-wise) and created two good chances as well. He even saw a powerful shot go narrowly wide of the top corner.
That great work could all have been undone by one poor pass he made to a Southampton striker. For a certain section of the Arsenal fanbase, that will be all they remember of his performance. Nonetheless, overall, the midfielder was very good alongside Torreira again.
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