Miscellany: Website Love, Bromantic Training Pics And Gifs, Samisut Returns & National Team Gossip!

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Miscellany: Website Love, Bromantic Training Pics And Gifs & National Team Gossip!



         Full disclosure - this entire post was devised as a means to post this uniquely beautiful photograph.


The Real Madrid.com website simply adores our crinkly-eared hero! This week Mesut was featured twice in the banner article!

Website Love! Mesut & His Way-Cool Next-Door Neighbour!

Banner Headline Number One!

Mesut and Sergio's bromantic affinity for matching bathing costumes is well known! Apparently, they share another characteristic! Every goal Sergio Ramos has scored since November 2010 has been launched off the boot of Mesut Ozil from the corner flag!

Margarita Perez / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell

Sergio Ramos' last five goals came from Ozil corner-kicks

Sergio Ramos has tallied the most goals from corner-kicks in La Liga, topping the ranking thanks to his header against Getafe last Saturday. He is the most dangerous player for defences in set pieces this season.

Ramos' last five goals came from Ozil corner-kicks. This season, both connected against Valencia at Mestalla to score the 2-0 strike in favour of the Whites; in Granada they tallied the 2-1 draw breaker; and they connected again to score the only goal against Getafe last weekend. Zaragoza and Sevilla were their victims last season.

The last time Ramos scored from something other than a headed in Ozil ball was on 20 November 2010: the 3-1 penalty against Athletic Bilbao in Week 12.

It's a good thing Sergio Ramos won't have Mesut Ozil along for the trip to the Euros - though if he wants to show off his ability by heading in an own goal during the final against Germany for kicks when Mesut works his set piece magic - you go right ahead darling!

Awwwwzil!

Website Love Redux! Mesut & The Resident Cherub!

Banner Headline Number Two!

Together they have served more assists than 18 teams in the championship

Margarita Perez / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell

Real Madrid's 47 assists in La Liga allow them to top the ranking over Barcelona (37) and Athletic Bilbao (23). Angel di Maria and Mesut Ozil have played a key role in this, with 13 and 11 assists each, respectively. Their combined 24 assists are more than those served by 18 teams in the competition.

Di Maria tops the individual assist ranking. He has needed only 948 minutes in 14 games to serve 13 assists (one every 73 minutes), finding in Cristiano Ronaldo the perfect receiver in five of these goal passes.





Ozil is the runner-up in the ranking, having had an impressive start in 2012 with six assists in the team's last five league games. He has made 11 goal passes in 1,411 minutes of playing time, or one every 128 minutes. Karim Benzema has benefitted most from the German's passes.

Some lovely stats, I'm sure we all agree! Most especially the ones about the good start to the new year. It has not been a particularly brilliant season for Mesut yet in the league (though his Champions League and National Team form are better than ever) - compared with last year for example. He's putatively the team's play-maker but shares minutes with others, is routinely played on the right as some sort of make-shift winger (most recently against Barcelona - where he did rather well out of position), and struggled through a dip in form with what seemed like precious little support from anyone and some rather unhelpful public comments from the coaching staff.

At any rate - well done Mesut & Cherub!

Training Pictures Of The Last Three Days!

Samisut Returns & Random Croezil!

Wait! Who is that Mesut is chatting with?

What is this wetness on my cheek?

For heaven's sake Fabio - don't even try to get between them!

Though flirting with a trio of Portuguese pranksters
is something Mesut doesn't mind at all!

I promised you some random Croezil! It lives! It lives!

But there's nothing like a little Samisut!    *sniffle*

National Team Gossip

It's nothing drastic, but the new training kits are out! And they are back to being green - which, I am happy to assure younger Mannschaft fans, is a very lucky colour for Germany! I distinctly remember us tossing the English out on penalties in '90 wearing green and my mother remembers a very happy 1972 for similar reasons!

So - I've arranged the photographs in order as a visual aid - just imagine Mesut's lean gorgeous body, snuzzlable tummy and gorgeously shapely legs stuffed inside these photographs and you should be set!










And to help you along - we have dearest friend on the National team Lukas Podolski - wearing a typically tight jersey as is his wont!

And Finally - Those Idiots At Sanitas...

...Presented Mesut With His New Health-Card!

Mesut was his usual charming self - with a bright smile and a head of hair that...suggests things to me. Should he comb it next time after falling out of bed in the morning? Perhaps not!

And that, my darlings, is all the Mesuty news that is fit to print!

Next game is on Sunday night against Levante (who are still in the Champions League spots in 4th place and who beat Madrid in the first half of the season) at 21:30 local time. Good luck Mesut, good luck boys!

Love to andriy_7 as always, for giving us enough material to start off our weekends with a surfeit of Mesutyness!
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Comments

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

That first picture caught my eye earlier today... It's really quite special!

And thanks for the permission to so strategically imagine him in the new kit. ;) I'm not accustomed to the green, being such a huge fan of the black. But hey, if it's a historically lucky color, I'll grow to love it! And I always thought he looked good in his green Werder Bremen jersey so I don't doubt he'll look just as lovely in this.

[jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com]

Black was lovely. Perhaps one day they'll return to it.

Mesut looks lovely in Green - and in the photograph above, which is LOVE. I couldn't believe it when I came across it!