Should Arsenal play Ozil or Akpom if Alexis is out?

This “winger” or players marooned “out wide” thing is getting tedious. We don’t play wingers, end of, and the 3 behind our striker turn up anywhere on the pitch. They switch at will and nearly always cut inside and head towards the busier central parts of the pitch. Bellerin and Gibbs are the closest we have to the old traditional wing play – full backs have ousted the old wing system. Just becomes a player inhabits a position on the field to either side of the centre does not make them a winger. Santi’s 2012-13 season wasn’t too shabby with his name appearing on the team sheet as the left player in the 3. This mythical “left wing” position is one of Wenger’s obsessions – a position he likes to use for the more creative type. I am not sure why it has taken so long but I think Podolski’s poor fit in to this creative left side role is the root of much of Wenger’s frustration. Any one here remember a fella called Robert Pires; he was our “left winger” (the formation was often described as a 4-4-2 but you could also see it as a lop-sided 4-2-3-1 with Henry up top but taking up an average position left of centre. We had quite a left side then; Cole, Pires, Henry!! Used to scare the crap of the opposition and whilst they were trying to plug the gaps on the left Freddie Ljungberg often got more space on the right and he used to cut in whenever he could. Wenger actually gets credit for helping adapt/reinvent the whole meaning of “wing play”. Ljungberg used to run up and down in straighter lines in a wing like fashion but he used to turn up anywhere. Pires hardly ever stayed anywhere near the left touchline, coming inside was the natural tendency. I am not going to compare the players in terms of qualities etc but you can see a certain parallel with Ozil (when he put on the left side) in a Pires role and Walcott, more direct, in a Ljungberg role. I may be wrong on this but I seem to recollect a good number of Ozil assists coming from the left half of the pitch.