GRANIT XHAKA was trolled by Bundesliga side Augsburg after the midfielder’s lacklustre performance in the North London derby. The Swiss was one of several underwhelming Gunners as Mikel Arteta’s side were comfortably beaten 2-0 at bitter rivals Tottenham. Twitter user Tom tweeted: “Augsburg is Xhaka’s level.” And the Bundesliga side – who are currently tenth […]
GRANIT XHAKA was trolled by Bundesliga side Augsburg after the midfielder’s lacklustre performance in the North London derby.
The Swiss was one of several underwhelming Gunners as Mikel Arteta’s side were comfortably beaten 2-0 at bitter rivals Tottenham.
Twitter user Tom tweeted: “Augsburg is Xhaka’s level.”
And the Bundesliga side – who are currently tenth – replied and quipped: “Resepct us.”
The post received more than 46,000 likes and quickly went viral on Twitter.
But the German outfit were not the only ones to jump on the Swiss’ back.
Sky pundit Jamie Redknapp said afterwards: “I struggle to see what Xhaka does.
“We’re talking about an Arsenal midfielder. You want somebody with a bit of quality and a bit of guile.
“You look at [Pierre-Emile] Hojbjerg for Tottenham today and there’s no comparison.”
Gary Neville also crticised the 28-year-old and said: “He commits about 800 fouls a match.”
Gooners also piled in online with Piers Morgan tweeting: “Xhaka is not and never has been good enough to run Arsenal’s midfield.”
Darren simply tweeted: “Xhaka is abysmal.”
Shippo asked: “What have Xhaka and Willian got to do to get dropped? They’re a massive hindrance.”
Matt tweeted: “I don’t judge a performance solely on stats. Xhaka’s today look pretty good but he was terrible.”
Other described the midfielder as ‘woeful’, ‘shocking’ and ‘terrible’.
Heung-min Son opened the scoring on 13 minutes with a wonder strike from distance.
And Harry Kane doubled the lead on the stroke of half time.
Arsenal looked a little more dangerous in the second half.
But Gooners’ misery was compounded in the first 45 when Thomas Partey limped off injured.
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The most pathetic away performance I’ve seen in years. Auba poor and nonexistent, Bellerin (the zoolander) awful, Holding awful, Xhaka awful and Willian was surprisingly poor as well. Gabriel, Saka, Laca and Tierney can hold their heads up. I stuck by Arteta but he needs to go!
— Gunner97(@andrey3216) December 6, 2020
Xhaka in particular he’s absolutely terrible
— TC(@tylerC3887) December 6, 2020
