Mesut Ozil will not play for Germany against England when the two sides meet in a tomorrow night.
Two sides meet in Dortmund for a friendly, but according to coach Jogi Low the 28 year old will not be selected.
“[Among] those who will not play tomorrow are Ozil, who has some muscle problems,” he said.
The Arsenal man was left out of the squad for the trip to West Brom last Saturday, and has barely featured in recent weeks because of a bout of illness and other small injury complaints.
It will be much more instructive to see if he is part of the squad for a World Cup qualifier on Sunday, when the World Champions travel to Azerbaijan.
Wednesday’s game against England will be a farewell to the German national side for Lukas Podolski. The former Arsenal forward will win his 130th and final cap, as well as captaining the side on the night.
He quit international football in 2016, but has come back for one final match and a chance to say a proper goodbye to fans.
Scoring a couple of traditional Podolski rockets would be a good way to go out.
Thwack! That left foot made some highly satisfying goals!
I remember thinking Poldo wasn’t quite what we needed when we had him. Now I would kill to have someone like him in the team. Those strikes just cause fear. Apart from Granit, we don’t have that in the locker anymore.
I think that says a lot about the state of the squad at the minute.
Does peak Arsenal Poldo start in this squad? Would his limited tracking back matter?
If Perez can’t get a game in this team, I don’t think Poldi can.
Bliemy, some of the goals Podolski scored for us were really amazing
Ozil: I have a runny nose, I cannot play.
Sanchez: I’m lucky, Ive only broken my foot in 12 places. I’ll be on the pitch.
Probably unfair, but whatever.
Yeah, unfair and unfounded, but well… Typical of Arsenal fans about Mesut these days.
Or maybe just a bit of fun. The thing I hate most about the current situation is that it’s dividing the fan base. There doesn’t have to be a right or wrong camp, just different views. I know Ozil is a fantastic talent, but whether he is what we need at Arsenal at this moment is another question, and one on which fans will always be divided. At the end of the day, we bought world class players and they haven’t made a great deal of difference have they? In fact, things seem to be worse. I don’t know what… Read more »
I’m just curious how Spurs fans survived the past 20 years.. We’ve been spoilt but it’s too late!
To be fair as a north bank season ticket holder me and the 30 season ticket holders around me hope ozil is ok and not serious niggles and illness. Arseblog comments are like Arsenal tv. Entertainment when I should be doing something else.
Got quite nostalgic watching that video…
Surprising how often Santi and Miki popped up in the box!
Can’t help thinking we never got the best out of Poldi though.
Not getting the best out of Poldi puts us on a long long list, in fairness
Every time he picked up the ball in the box the keeper must’ve shit himself thinking ‘he’s going to take my face off’.
Would have loved Podolski to have got his chance in a two with Giroud, such a wasted opportunity. But ultimately he didn’t work hard enough on the wing for us
No one plays like that anymore, and for good reason. Neither of them work/run hard enough to play in a lone striker system, playing two of them together would basically leave you with 8 against 10 when we didn’t have the ball, and when we do have it, neither of them move enough to be make space or launch counters.
i blame Wenger he has tried to mould Ozil into the middle but he has all his applaudits for Germany playing on the left, goal assists and many man of the match awards he is consistent there some players can adapt but his strength is on the left does wenger not see this being blinded by offence and no defense, maureen didnt like him at real madrid for the same reason
You got that a bit back to front. Özil doesn’t need ‘adapting’ to a central 10 position, that’s where he has always played if given the choice, ever since he came to prominence at Bremen. Myriads of newspaper lines have been written in Germany about how Özil is wasted on the left. Also, Podolski was the go-to left wing player for Germany for many years. Yes, he played on the left for Germany but it was almost by accident. Quote from Wikipedia, about the 2014 World Cup: “Following an injury to Marco Reus in a warm-up game, Özil was moved… Read more »
Reckon he’ll be sat in the dugout thinking wow I wonder if me and Alexis will get this send off at the end of the season.
Is the opening sentence in this article written in a cod reggae style?
Ozil is going extra mile to cover up his tracks. Mr Blogs is on his heels and will uncover his evil ways. So Ozil decides to sit out Germany’s games just to be on the safe side.
Can’t believe how many goals and assists Podolski got for us in his short time with Arsenal.
Never seemed to be Arsene’s type of player though.
Still, he always made me smile or laugh which is something everyone associated with the club could use right now.
Heard he was always picked for the National Team later in his career because he was good for team spirit and morale in the locker room.
The volley against Giroud’s old team at the Emirates will long live in the memory.
It’ll difficult to replace Ozil if he should leave.
Not sure Juventus will part with Pjanic that easily. Plus we may have other holes to plug and we will need to spread the money.
Another reason to consider Wenger stay through the summer to negotiate through a potentially difficult market.
Like it or not he is one of the best in the marke.
Do not listen to the trite from the media unless you are missing grey cells.
None of them have managed a club let alone worked in the transfer market let alone haggled to save their lives.
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At least he wont get clobbered by some spud or manc cunt.
Fast smooth football…now it’s all slow motion and endless passing around 🙁
This really made me miss Santi. And Arsenal’s ability to score.
We miss Santi and I miss those happier times with Lucas…
I got thumbed down for expressing my view.
The following is some loose musing on my part and of course purely hypothetical, but I feel if Wenger stays on for a transitional season, he needs to throw a bit more caution to the wind and think a bit bigger to set us up better for his succesor eventually : I think we will face a tricky summer ahead. We will need to add a minimum of 4 QUALITY players. The most tricky issue is the departure possibility of our two top class players Alexis and Ozil. ATTACK 1)Alexis I feel can be replaced. He should sell for a… Read more »
I think bottom line for me is we are missing the technical edge these days with many of the lower PL clubs catching us in player ability (See Mahrez at Leicester) We need to have more guile and inventiveness again. Players like Mahrez, Mbappe, Pastore, Saul all have excellent ball control skills which we should strive to add on should we be forced to shed the likes of Ozil and Alexis. Players like Walcott, Gibbs lack invention and composure. Jack is fragile, Elneny, Jenkinson mediocre, Debuchhy wantaway/unavailable to us. Even Perez I would be content to release albeit I’d prefer… Read more »
I didn’t read it (way too long mate…but I will probably have a go later, or not) I thumbed you up (in a swamp of thumbs downs) for your dedication and care. COYGFans!
Dude no one will read the book you wrote it.
I’ll get my secretary to read this and come back to you… 😉
I find your argument to be underdeveloped.
Wenger bought a fantastic forward in Podolski, benched him and ruined him for no apparent reason. The same story now with Lucas Peres: The manager buys good players without any idea of how the team should play and how they might fit in. BUY HORSES, ARSENE!
He was injured for quite a long time and after that he never really made it back in the squad. It happens and it’s sad. What it isn’t is Wenger ruining him or anyone else for no apparent reason.
Video makes me cry for Santi!!!!
Is Mesut going to be attending any f1 races instead of playing?
Makes me really miss the JOY of Santi and Poldi.
I know we need vocal leaders, but we also need “team” players who just enjoy their football.
Heal zombie would, heal.
zombie “wound”, that is.