What more can Alexis Sanchez do to force his way back into the middle ? Out on the left wing against Queens Park Rangers , where he has moved to make way for Mesut Ozil since his return from injury , he cut a frustrated figure for much of the game . But when he started making runs through the middle , testing Queens Park Rangers defenders and putting them on the back foot with his pace , the chances came . After 70 minutes , that was rewarded with a wonderful individual goal . Alexis Sanchez takes on young Queens Park Rangers defender Darnell Furlong at Loftus Road . Mesut Ozil , voted Arsenal 's player of the month for February , holds off the challenge of Nedum Onuoha . The talk ahead of kick-off was that Sanchez simply does not perform as well when Ozil is on the pitch . In the first 45 minutes , they exchanged the ball a total of three times . That ’ s not to say that every player on the pitch must combine at all times , but Arsenal fans are within their rights to expect £72.5million worth of talent , playing next to each other in an attacking midfield trio , to develop some kind of wavelength . In the first half Sanchez , Arsenal ’ s best player this season by far , could not get into the game on the flank , making way for Ozil as No 10 since his comeback from injury . In October , there were stories in Chile , from newspaper La Tercera , that Sanchez and Ozil had fallen out . Sanchez felt the German was not giving him enough opportunities on the pitch , it was reported . From this performance , he would have a point . It took 22 minutes before they found one another , Sanchez passing into his team-mate . Sanchez cut in from the left hand side to score from a tight angle and end is run of eight games without a goal . Sanchez celebrates doubling Arsenal 's lead mid way through the second half at Loftus Road . At one stage , the Chilean was screaming for the ball wide and free on the left , but Ozil went to play the switch and instead feinted . But perhaps it is not even about the pair of them being on the pitch together so much as Sanchez being wasted on the left . By the 62nd minute , he was clearly frustrated out wide when he made a run down the wing and Olivier Giroud failed to send the ball into his path . He let his team-mate know . In one red-hot period after he scored his first goal for the club against Besiktas he netted 12 in 14 games , from August to the start of November . Now it is just one in eight games , coinciding with Ozil ’ s return . When he ventured into the middle in the 47th minute , carried the ball into the box with a step-over before aiming one for the far right bottom corner , it was hard to see why he is not guaranteed a central spot all the time . He repeated the act in the 58th minute , growing in confidence with every shot on goal . These two acts alone far exceeded anything Ozil produced . Former Real Madrid playmaker Ozil complains to the referee after feeling he was fouled inside the area . World Cup-winning midfielder Ozil takes a corner during the first half of the Premier League match . Then as if to reaffirm his ability to score , he evaded the presence of young QPR full-back Daniel Furlong inside the box on the left , before firing a shot into Rob Green ’ s near post for Arsenal ’ s second . It is all well and good Sanchez displaying an enviable work-rate down the wing , one that surely impresses Arsene Wenger , but it ’ s more well and good if he is through the middle stretching defences to breaking point . Against QPR , this was not vintage Arsenal and they made hard work of a team fighting relegation , a team they should be sweeping aside . It can not be denied that they are finding results , getting wins , but in the biggest match of their season , against Monaco , they were found lacking . As this game drew on , Sanchez displayed a lovely deftness of touch to control the ball with his knee then flick it over an opponent in one fluid motion . Where was he ? In the middle of the attacking third . Where he belongs . Olivier Giroud stabs in Arsenal 's first goal of the evening against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road . Charlie Austin scored a superb consolation goal late in the game after being given too much room .
Arsenal beat QPR 2-1 at Loftus Road on Wednesday night . Alexis Sanchez played on the wing , Mesut Ozil played No 10 . Sanchez 's best work came when he was central . The Chilean forward scored the Gunners ' first goal of the evening .