Emery tells why she left him on the bench Ozil

Ozil was on the bench during the entire match, which the Topcinits won 1:2, while not participating in the usual equipment, follows Periscope.

Emery later explained that he preferred to use players who could handle a physical match and implied that he did not trust his best-paid player to do such a job.

” We thought about how we might be better at fighting, a match that needed physics and intensity”, the Spanish technician said when asked about the Turkish-German midfielder.

But each player is important to us. We've been working today and there's another opportunity to improve or to find our best performance as team”.

At the beginning of the season we talked every day about the need to be competitive. We need to get organized, we need individual qualities to improve our” performance.

It's the same thing today. Depends. That depends on how the match is going, what the result is. I decided on another option. We knew this was a difficult stadium, a difficult team”, he explained he was putting on Ozil's bench. /Periscopi/