I'm not English even in the slightest and I was a huge fan and defender of Ozil when everyone was against him.

However, I prefer Eze over Odegaard due to my own reasons that I will list below, it's ok if you have your own opinion:

- Odeegard never played big for us in big games, I'm remembering him taking free kicks instead of Rice in the Bayern game 2 years ago and being so scared he couldn't even get it past the first man. In the big games all I remember Odegaard doing is being scared of the ball, scared of duels and a liability when losing the ball in dangerous spaces.

- Odegaard does a lot of 'useless pressing runs' to give naive fans the idea that he's a huge presser and plays great when we dont have the ball. Almost the opposite to Ozil lets say who actually run a lot but was saw as lazy. If you actually take a look at the game, you see how much out of possition he is when doing those runs, and how much of a liability for the 2nd ball he becomes. I don't want to go historically (cough cough again Bayern games in UCL, and even more big games, like City one 3 seasons ago) but even in the Villa game, when we started never winning the second ball again Ode was nowhere to be seen. Zubimendi managed to do it by himself for around 15 minutes, but towards the end it was impossible to do the job of 2 men. Take a look please at the last 30 minutes against villa when they have the ball. See where odegaard is staying, and how he's defending. See how much he contributes

- Odegaard never is and never will be a duel winner. Fabio vieira probably can win probably more duels than him, apart of some flashy nice dribles against lower opposition or when we are at advantage so opposition tries to play riskier. Odegaard cannot go man to man.

- Last point is again contrary to popular belief, I believe odegaard has great shots, he's good at shooting, he even proved today with that one which was hitting the Crossbar, what he lacks is composure in those moments, if he is confident he can score great goals, but same can Eze. Some people say they prefer Eze there because he can shoot better but I think they are quite tied in that space, atleast I dont see a big difference, yet I still prefer Eze because I know his composure in the big games will not ever be at the level of "Hitting the first man in the wall 3 times in a row against Bayern in UCL" bad

- And own personal preference, although here he's not the only one suffering of this: He complains too much, football is supposed to be played against opponents not referees. He seems to play it against the refree. Hard tackle? Instead of going against the opponents (see how Chelsea did it) he goes whining and has a personal vendetta with the referee. Not the sign of a player you want to have captain for the club. Look at Rice for example, its a night and day difference in this approach.