ARSENAL, Podolski: "I love Santi’s style of play"

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Lukas Podolski believes that playing alongside Santi Cazorla will get the very best out of him this season.

The 27-year-old striker scored his first goal for the Club against Liverpool on Sunday after some superb interplay with the Spain international.

The pair combined again as Cazorla struck the second goal of the game at Anfield, and Podolski says this performance was just a taste of things to come.

“I like Arsenal’s style of football and Santi’s as well - I love his style of football, with one or two touches,” he said.

“We play [well] together and you could see it here - he passed for me for the first goal, I passed to him for the second goal.

“But we are only three matches in. We have 35 matches more so we must keep going.”

Podolski has been used on the left flank and as a central striker so far this season, but he insists he does not have any real preference.

“I play on the left side but you see at Arsenal it is different from the [German] national team,” he said.

“At Arsenal, it’s a three-point position. I not only play on the line but I can go in the middle and play with Santi and Abou Diaby and Mikel Arteta.

“This is my style of football. I like this but it’s not only about one match - I want to play more of these matches.”