Santi Let Down by Wenger's Tactics — bleacherreport.com

With his chipmunk grin, self-deprecating jokes about his lack of height and little scurrying legs, Santi Cazorla has become the player it’s impossible not to like. When Arsenal won 2-0 away at Manchester City in mid-January, apparently ushering in a new era for Arsene Wenger, one that involved tackling and defending and all manner of unfashionable notions, he was the standout player. Cazorla scored a penalty and set up the other goal that day, completed 91.5 percent of his passes (according to whoscored.com), but also made two tackles, three interceptions and two clearances and blocked a shot. Here, at last, it seemed, was proof of what Wenger had always insisted, was that skilful creators, properly deployed, could offer defensive security.

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