Mesut Ozil accomplished something last week that is both damning to his critics and completely irrelevant to his fans; he failed 'the eye test'.
At a key moment during the game against Everton, it appeared as if he wasn’t bothered with fulfilling his defensive duties. During the second half in the following game at Manchester City, it once again appeared as if he wasn’t pressing as quickly and as often as he was supposed to. It doesn’t matter that neither of these are true, but to the untrained eye, it looked like Ozil just wasn’t trying hard enough.