Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United: 5 players who impressed for the Gunners | Premier League 2019-20 

#4 Mesut Özil

Mesut pulled the strings in midfield and continued probing, even when United settled

Just like his performance against Chelsea, Mesut Özil delivered another encouraging display and this time he wasn't replaced - they won and kept a clean sheet! If anyone personifies the eye test, it's the German playmaker. He's got no goals and only two assists in 14 appearances this term and yet there's no doubting him as Arsenal's creator-in-chief.

Importantly, you can see he's relishing the challenge under Arteta and doing things many wouldn't expect from him. During the build-up to Pepe's goal, Mesut won the ball back in his own half near Ainsley Maitland-Niles as United looked to progress intricately. After a switch of play into Granit Xhaka, Arsenal advanced in numbers and a few seconds later, Kolasinac sped to the byline and fizzed a cross into the box which deflected into Pepe's path.

It was sloppy defending on United's part, but that whole move started with Mesut's defensive work. That piece of shrewd defending rather typified Özil's performance: he worked hard, played a plethora of deft passes that should have been better received and you could see his inventive nature was working in overdrive to punish United for allowing him too much space to free roam.

He would have had an assist or two, but it's also obvious that his teammates aren't always on the same creative wavelength as him either - evidenced when potential openings broke down once he fed the ball towards both Lacazette and Aubameyang.

For someone who is supposedly lazy and never delivers in big games, Mesut never stopped running and his intensity didn't drop either, even as United got settled and crept back into proceedings midway through the second half. Instead, he covered more distance than any other Arsenal player (11.54km) and that figure was only bettered by Fred (11.95km) - who certainly had his work cut out trying to stop them in midfield.