Arsenal’s woes go far beyond Ozil

The scrutiny in Munich was meant to be on under-performing Mesut Ozil but whatever the German could do, Bayern’s Thiago Alcantara could do far, far better as Arsenal were outclassed in Europe yet again - leaving Arsene Wenger as the man feeling the heat of the spotlight instead of his star midfielder.

It seems strange a player who has played more than 450 games at the highest level, who lifted the World Cup with his country, won La Liga with Real Madrid and collected two FA Cups with Arsenal, should be under such intense focus for the quality of his contribution, but that was the case in the Allianz Arena on his return to Germany.

The problem for Ozil, however, was that although he responded to the challenge, he quickly found the performance of Spanish international Thiago effortlessly eclipsed anything he could conjure up.