Arsenal 2-0 Napoli – player ratings

Another game, another win, and this time in the ‘group of death’. How did the players rate?
See below …

Wojciech Szczesny: 7/10 – Had little to do but claimed crosses and corners well. Spent most of his time looking disdainfully at Napoli shots flying over the bar.
Bacary Sagna: 8/10 – Bacary Sagna.
Per Mertesacker: 8/10 – Unflappable. Mertmungous. Per-fect.

Laurent Koscielny: 8/10 – Untroubled by anything. Expect maybe Hamsik’s haircut.
Kieran Gibbs: 8/10 – Consistent again, he’s really putting it in this season.
Mathieu Flamini: 8/10 – Chaaaaaaaaarrrggge!

Aaron Ramsey: 8/10 – Great assist for Ozil and is linking brilliantly with the German already. Imagine when they get to know each other properly. However, no goals in 1 game for him. Worrying.


Mikel Arteta: 8/10 – Got a good 90 minutes under his belt, took a nasty whack to the head in the process which was so bad it dented his Lego hair. He didn’t care though.

Tomas Rosicky: 7/10 – Looked a bit off the pace after 5 or 6 games out with injury but was his usual industrious, running all over the place self. Might have scored early in the second half.

Mesut Ozil: 9/10 – Got his first Arsenal goal and what a goal it was too. The finish was just sublime, swerving just beyond the reach of that baldy Mugsmasher. Then set up Giroud for our second. Quality.

Olivier Giroud: 8/10 – Fine goal and fantastic play all over the park tonight. Strong, committed, held it up well and is really important to the way we’re playing right now.

Subs
Jack Wilshere: 7/10 – Came on for Rosicky, had some lovely moments, skipping past tackles and trying to make things happen in a second half in which not much did.
Nacho Monreal: n/a – Not really on long enough