Mesut Özil suffered his first home defeat in an Arsenal shirt tonight as his side succumbed to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Swansea City.
Bafitemi Gomis came off the bench to score the only goal of the game in the 85th minute of the game. The goal came against the run of play in a match where Arsenal dominated 68% of the possession.
The defeat leaves Arsenal in 35 games in 70 points, three points behind second placed Manchester City.
Özil received a rating of 7.08 by whoscored.com. The Germany international made five key passes and maintained a passing accuracy of 93%.
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The 26-year-old has been in good form since returning from injury, the World Cup winner recently won the Arsenal Vitality Player of the Month award and April PFA Fans Player of the Month award.
Arsenal have won 15 out of the last 18 games Özil has played in since recovering from injury.
Following the final whistle we took to Twitter to see how Özil’s latest performance went down on social media. Read a selection of what we found below:
Bad result for Arsenal but at least Mesut Ozil wasn't dressed like this http://t.co/JJhetur4Ff pic.twitter.com/9oeQFZ6EfO
— Mirror Row Zed (@MirrorRowZed) May 11, 2015
Mesut Ozil has made four chances today. The most of any player on either side #AFCvSCFC http://t.co/umJbTMf2ij pic.twitter.com/5TlI9RbQPW
— Arsenal FC Updates (@GunnersAFC) May 11, 2015
Mesut Ozil loses his first game at home, since joining Arsenal.
— Faizan! (@TheFedz889) May 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/wasabinowasabi/status/597867265900568576
Mesut Ozil completed 100% of his final third passes in the first half (@StatsZone Image) #AFC #Arsenal pic.twitter.com/VhmgdwBmKK
— EPL Stat Man (@EPLStatman) May 11, 2015
