Player focus Archives: 03/2017

When Shkodran Mustafi signed for Arsenal from Valencia during the summer, most Gooners were over the moon with the new defender but now it appears he’s perhaps not the player we thought he was.

Although no Arsenal player was exactly fantastic against West Brom, Granit Xhaka wasn’t as horrendous as some.

Theo Walcott was anonymous against West Brom and Twitter didn’t hold back in its criticism of the inconsistent forward.

David Ospina must be the gift that keeps on giving if you support any team other but Arsenal.

Alexis Sanchez was probably Arsenal’s best player against West Brom.

Although Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is far from a perfect player, his desire to succeed means that Arsenal fans on Twitter are fighting his corner.

Hector Bellerin hasn’t been up to his usual standard for months now but his performance against West Brom was perhaps one of his worst.

Granit Xhaka picked up his eighth yellow card of the season against Lincoln.

Although it was far from a spectacular performance from Theo Walcott against Lincoln City, the forward was one of Arsenal’s best players.

Mesut Ozil was subbed on for the injured Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain early in the first half and didn’t disappoint.

Aaron Ramsey managed to score his second goal of the season against Lincoln

Despite a slow start, Alexis Sanchez finished Arsenal’s 5-0 FA Cup win over Lincoln as the best player on the pitch – nothing new there.

When Francis Coquelin was brought on in the 72nd minute against Bayern Munich for Aaron Ramsey, Arsenal fans everywhere internally groaned.

Theo Walcott was Arsenal’s second highest rated player on Who Scored, behind Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, but why doesn’t he play like that all the time?

Despite generally being Arsenal’s best player, Alexis Sanchez’s performance against Bayern Munich is one many, the Chilean included, would like to forget.

Theo Walcott joined the prestige club of players that have scored 100 goals for Arsenal.

While there’s no doubt that Alex Iwobi has a tonne of potential, Arsenal’s 3-1 loss away to Liverpool highlighted once again that the 20-year-old still has a lot to prove when it comes to big games.

When Francis Coquelin is the only Arsenal player to have a shot on target the entire first half against Liverpool, you know you’ve got problems.

Despite Arsenal performing pretty terribly against Liverpool, at least Danny Welbeck started and scored.

After Arsenal found themselves 2-0 down at halftime against Liverpool, it was up to Alexis Sanchez to save the day… again.