Arsenal Fans East Humble Pie, Praise In-form Defender

ImageArsenal outcast Shkodran Mustafi once again put in a good show against Standard Liege and helped the Gunners keep yet another clean-sheet during a Europa League clash between the two sides at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday night.

In the three games that he has featured this season, Arsenal has kept clean sheets in all the three and his performance, for a player Arsenal coach fans and the coach wanted out in the summer has been, to say the least, commendable.

“I want the players to be happy here, I want the players to be protagonists here, and last year, for example, with Mustafi and Mo, when they didn’t play, they weren’t happy. I spoke with them a lot of times last year in this position and I think it is positive for them to leave and to sign for another team where they can be protagonists, they can be happy and can continue their careers as players.

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“They are very big players but here for one circumstance or another circumstance they are going to have fewer chances to show their capacity or to be happy with us taking minutes of playing matches,” Arsenal coach Unai Emery speaking about Mustafi and Elneny in August.

The world cup winner is yet to feature in any league match this campaign and coincidentally, the Gunners have kept just one clean-sheets in the seven league matches that they have played and currently sit fourth in the log with 12 points.

Arsenal fans have noted an improvement in his performance and some have even suggested that he deserves to start in the league where David Luiz and Sokratis have been the Gunners’ mainstay central defense pairing.

 

 

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