Arsenal's resurgence

Its funny that on the opening day of the premier league the whole world was out to get Wenger's head and after 3 months and 10 league games normalcy has been restored with "Arsene Knows". Considering the final third of last season and this season until now, the Aston Villa game looks like a clear aberration, Wenger's men have lost 1 in 20 games played in the corresponding period. Arsenal fans were getting impatient and have been without a trophy for 8 long years and the media comments passed by the club's management that any top player could be signed now. These factors culminated in the unanimous call for Wenger's ouster and few would have doubted that it was the right thing to do.

In came Mathieu Flamini and a certain Madridista Mesut Ozil (yeah u heard it right) and the whole dynamic changed, Ozil assisted with almost his first touch for the club and Flamini was bossing the midfield area like no one since another popular french man Patrick Vieira. Suddenly Arsenal were on the back of 5 straight wins and a dominating win over Rafa's Napoli, when Man utd and city were stumbling. As it stands Arsenal are top of the table 5 points clear off Chelsea.

It is easy to forget that unlike City, Utd and chelsea who are all in transition due to new management and arrival of new players, Arsenal had the sagacious Wenger in control and at the back of a stupendous run towards the end of the previous season. This was also the first season in a long time that Arsenal did not sell their best players which was a huge step in itself, look at Spurs who have splashed 100 Mn and are yet to forge a winning combination. Arsenal's young team have such cohesiveness which is hard to match and this has contributed significantly to Arsenal's stellar showing this season. Barring Ozil and Flamini the rest of the bunch have been playing together for quite some time now.

Flamini and Arteta make a fine pairing while Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Rosicky give them creative impetus and my word Giroud has improved leaps and bounds, his holding capacity and build up play has exceeded all expectations. As the top teams slowly settle and gel, we would know whether Arsenal's rise is a fluke or are they genuine title contenders.  Ozil has raised the level of game play to another level while Ramsey has been simply superb. I hope Arsene Wenger is proved right by Arsenal winning the league and building another set of invincibles as I expect City, united and chelsea to come out all guns blazing soon.