The most common criticism levelled at Mesut Ozil tends to be that he is lazy.

A player with a languid running style, he can look more than a tad disinterested when the other team have the ball, but the truth is he covers far more ground than most. The problem this season seems to be that play consistently passes him by.

Moved out to the right flank under new manager Unai Emery, Ozil is bound to be less involved than he was as a No 10 under Arsene Wenger, but given how comfortable he is in possession and the fact that being nominally a right-sided midfielder these days does not entail getting chalk on your boots, his input this season has been far too small.

There were long periods during Arsenal's win over Everton where play was moving back and forth without Ozil contributing anything.

He spent much of the game wandering aimlessly in central positions without touching the ball.

Over the course of the first half, when the visitors created a flurry of openings and Arsenal barely got a foothold in the game, fortunate to go in level at the break, Ozil was almost completely anonymous.

There were many occasions when Arsenal would play out of defence and the game was screaming for their best ball-player to go and demand possession, but Ozil would remain uninterested in grabbing the game, happy to let it pass him by. In the opening 45 minutes, Ozil had just 21 touches of the ball.