Arsenal ace Mesut Ozil would be a star if he had Dele Alli’s nastiness, claims Lee Dixon
MESUT OZIL has not been short of critics this season, with TV pundit Lee Dixon the latest to take a pop.
Arsenal legend Dixon reckons Ozil would be TEN TIMES a better player if he took a leaf out of Dele Alli's book.
Ozil missed last night's friendly win over England due to the hamstring injury he picked up ahead of the Gunners' defeat to West Brom on Saturday.
Read The Sun's match report from Germany vs England here
Meanwhile, Alli looked the business in Dortmund, despite smashing one of England's best chances straight at Germany keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Dixon said: "If he's playing in the first team long term he is doing something right.
"The fact that he has come into Tottenham's first team and they are building around him, and now England, I think his talent is limitless.
"That streak within him is part of his drive to stay above everybody else. Ozil, if he had half of what Dele Alli has got, that nasty streak, he would be ten times a better player than what he is.
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"He hasn't got what Alli has got."
Alli recently picked up a red card for a filthy tackle in Spurs' Europa League defeat to Gent.
And that comes off the back of lashing out at West Brom midfielder Claudio Yacob last season.
Ian Wright is taking the claim for some of Alli's "nasty streak".
Fellow ITV pundit Wright: "I had a year with him at MK Dons, when I saw him playing in those games, even in training and the under-21 games I took him in, he had the determination, the drive.
"You could see he was going to do what he is doing now.
"He wants to play no 10. At some stage are we going to build a team around him? Or are we going to do what we have done in the past and put him over here and over there to get him in the team.
"That nasty streak was something I tried to encourage in him."