The Brilliance of Granit Xhaka | 2022/23 (Part 1). Xhaka has had a fantastic start to the season and has established himself as an undroppable Left #8 in Mikel Arteta’s preferred XI.
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22 Comments
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Few mistaked and it will be get him out.. God we all can't wait for arsenal to fall.. Soon lads… Very soon..
His tenacity off the ball and in duels is what I love about him
What make xhaka look bad. Is the man behind him. Yes, mustafi luis belerin and kolasinac
Arteta has turned Xhaka into a Swiss version of himself… Great to see…
Even the King Thierry had a lot of dislike for him, the consistency ever since Mikel has come has been phenomenal. A class player and one with a lot of heart!
This guy is a precious gift for Arsenal. His work rate and movements on and off the ball is norhing short of genius. And those passes….He is probably the most hated, the most slandered, and the most underrated player in the history of Arsenal FC. Yet he is the backbone of that midfield. And better still, he has upped his game under Arteta. I am glad he is starting to really shut the mouths of all his haters. Big up Xhaka!👏👏👏
I don’t trust this guy. He is still full of mistakes. He has been playing well against smaller teams, when we played Man Utd he made mistakes.
It's hard to believe but it's happening 🔥🔥
Last season we had Ødegaard and Saka. This season Xhaka and Jesus. 🔥🔥
He’s the king of
Keep it simple
Am impressed by xhaka and Jesus combination they get along good,hope for more to come
imagine how slow you'd be for Xhaka to catch up to you.
We got you, Granit ❤️
My fucken player ❤️.
XHAKAAAA <3 XK XK AL AL
Plus he barely get injured
This season, Xhaka is The king ❤️❤️ He is our proud captain and plays wisely
Interstingly, he hardly ever gets injured. If he does, he comes back after half the stipulated time. Does the simple things very well. Does not try to be fancy. N gives 100% every time.
I feel he will make a great coach.
seriously where was this Xhaha 6 seasons ago?! tbh so far going good🤘
The quality has always been evident. Just many people were too stupid to see it.
He's more mature now but also Arteta has added better quality around him.
Jesus has made a difference, Xhaka now enjoys an almost telepathic relationship with the two Brazilians Gabriel and Martinelli left side (plus Zinchenko or Tierney covering behind or overlapping)
but the stability in midfield with Partey and further back with Saliba also provides Xhaka license to push forward now and reap benefits.
Clearly we now play with both Xhaka and Odegaard forward deployed in midfield as Zinchenko and White fill in next to Partey to create a net when we are laying siege. This adds the extra body in the box which tends to flummox many defenses, particularly with Xhaka ghosting into the box.
But his defensive work has also always been there. He's less rash now with age lunging into tackles but he had always made good recoveries for us plus he added height where Torreira was more challenged in the department.
People always bleating on about selling Xhaka. Pointed out last season that the common denominator between midfield was Xhaka with Partey or Elneny or Sambi. Any other combination without him was inferior. Now Partey is able to hold with White and Zinchenko allows Xhaka the freedom to perform more destruction pushing forward.
Just goes to show how negativity from fans in past had its own consequences. Like it or not, it affected confidence on Xhaka and performances. Kudos to him for digging his way up and for Arteta in sticking with his quality.
The other thing of course he is a natural leader. He has been at the club thru thick and thin for 7 years now and he is very vocal. The sort of quality we use to lack for far too long. Whilst Odegaard leads by example, Xhaka leads by force of personality.
Finally he is also enjoying his footy now and that brings its own rewards. New found confidence sees him taking more risk shooting at goal which translates to results.
We always knew he could play, every year he scores at least one banger. For me it was always his temper ive never seen a player lose his head the way he used to. But hopefully that is behind him now. COYG🔴⚪!!!!!!!!
Greatest glow up in recent memory, Granit is clearly the captain, no armband needed.