Glad you went out of your way to look up the stats. I guess Iniesta is the worst midfielder in the world having the stats of a fullback and worse than guys like Puncheon
Just that Iniesta is another kind of midfielder. I see him more as an 8 and he is not a 10 as Özil is. Özil is a goalcreator - not really a playmaker.
I was a big fan of Özil some years ago. Him and Müller were great to watch in the German team - and there always was an end result. He has lost something since then. His World Cup for me was disappointing. Some might tell that he still had as much key passes as Müller had - just that his key passes did not lead to goals and that is not just lack but often a question about being surprising ones etc.
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This Özil I have not seen in Brazil. The German Offense mainly consisted of a one-man-show with Müller who mainly scrapped his goals from nothing and when he could not he assisted others to do. And set-pieces. That used to be different. Götze (I know - the final goal) and Özil were mostly absent and Klose only partly there. Schürrle was the only light in the tunnel - but he is a world class substitute but not a world-class-starter.
You know all about it when a player has his highest workrate of the tournament in a match that you already lead by 5:0 after 30 minutes and not in the matches that are tight until the end.
You might call it the "Real Madrid has rejected me and now I sulk"-syndrom... - but since he found out that there is live of the pitch in Madrid 3 years ago and thinks that the opinion of his fanboys is the most important... (I know that I am not nice and for sure not fair with him... - but the chat-scripts Lell posted a year ago - I still love the hashtag #auchindirsteckteinweltmeister - just told a lot about him)