adminLILLE. — Officially, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was on the touchline at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in a punditry capacity for French television on Sunday night.
But given the identity of Switzerland’s No. 10 – his new £35million midfielder Granit Xhaka — you can bet his attention was not shared as equally as his media paymasters would have liked.
Wenger, though, would have liked what he saw. If he was distracted from analysis of his countrymen then it was worth it. There is an effortless class about the 23-year-old, an ease with which he goes about his business in the centre of the park. By half-time he had made 48 passes, twice as many as any opponent in white. Now such statistics can, of course, be misleading. But what they do tell you is that Xhaka won’t go missing when his side needs him. It also tells you that his team-mates trust him. — Mailonline.
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