Top 3 Performers For Arsenal This Season

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Arsenal have, so far, had the most dismal season in any of the last twenty-two years of Arsene Wenger's association with the club. Not what you want, especially considering it is now the last season at the helm for the Frenchman.

We wonder what the future holds for the North London club with uncertainty certain to grip the club in the months and probably years to come.

However, a few bright sparks in a lacklustre Gunners' side should give them something to build on for the post-Wenger era. Here are three such players for Arsenal:


#3 Mesut Ozil

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Hull City v Arsenal - Premier League

Yes. Shockingly, such have been the standards of the FA Cup holders this campaign that even a far from his best Mesut Ozil slots into the list with ease.

The German has experienced his least effective campaign in his last three years at Arsenal. He has recorded the lowest number of assists (14) and scored just 5 goals (compared to 12 last season). He is also languishing in 10th place on the assists charts this season, behind his team-mate Henrik Mkhitaryan.

However, when Mesut Ozil does turn up for the Gunners, there are few better sites in world football at the moment. Like how he humiliated CSKA Moscow in the Europa League quarter-finals.

The World Cup winner has put in some very telling performances in the red and white for Arsenal, despite his tendency to go missing in a number of matches through the season.

To be honest, the lack of a better alternative in this disjointed Arsenal squad is the determining factor for Ozil's selection on our list. We tried to look around but who do we pick instead? Danny Welbeck, or a rudderless Hector Bellerin?

#2 Aaron Ramsey

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Aaron Ramsey

Aaron Ramsey hasn't had the most prolific campaign in an Arsenal shirt but he has not disappointed every time he has walked onto the pitch.

His ability to read the game and make those trademark runs at the right time to get on the end of things has been pivotal in his rise as a top quality midfielder.

The Welshman has been one of the most paradoxical players in modern football, so full of potential and exploiting it to the limit on one night, and then utterly ineffective when you'd least expect it.

But he has shown time and again, and multiple times in the two-legged quarter-final tie against the Russians alone, why he is considered among one of the very best in the art of the box-to-box midfielder.

He is currently the leading goal-scoring box-to-box midfielder in world football 8 ahead of his nearest rival Arturo Vidal. He has been involved in 22 goals in 28 appearances for Arsenal this season, scoring as many as he created.

Ramsey has been the best performer for the Gunners in Europe this season, despite Ozil's antics at home and Welbeck's heroics. Kudos to the Welshman who is slowly, but surely, improving his credit on the streets of the footballing world.

#1 Nacho Monreal

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Nacho Monreal

The Spaniard is slowly growing into one of the most reliable men in an Arsenal shirt these days. After a timid start to life in England, when he arrived along with Santi Cazorla from Spain, he has grown into one of the favourites of the home crowd - regularly putting in sturdy performances and chipping in with important goals in Cup finals and the like.

Another terrific season for the left-back, he is the only one who has looked calm and composed in the chaotic Arsenal back-in that has leaked more goals this year (48) than in any of the previous 5 campaigns. And they still have 3 games to go.

That should give you a measure of just how significant Nacho Monreal has been to a side that cannot seem to stop leaking goals.

The Spaniard has also been vita upfront for the Gunners showing his offensive traits by regularly coming up with important goals for his side when they need them the most. They left back has scored 6 goals this campaign in all competitions and has also assisted another two.

Good on you Nacho!

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Edited by Amit Mishra