Excerpt from a Cesc Fabregas interview with Sid Lowe:
Can Özil provide some of those goals?
I think he's going to enjoy it enormously. He's the man who has to make the difference in the final third. His last pass is brilliant, he'll get more space and with space he kills you. He's going to score more goals himself because of that space. There's no one better than him for that mediapunta role. In England opponents follow you, but if a player comes out to you it is easier to play a quick one-two and go beyond him into space. In a tactical-defensive sense, it is much more calculated in Spain; it's harder to score goals than in England.
Yet the assumption is that the Premier League is harder than La Liga ...
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