Arsenal stars Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac were attacked by knife-wielding moped thugs in a suspected robbery attempt.

Ozil was driving Kolasinac through leafy Childs Hill, northwest London, in a black Mercedes G-Class when they were ambushed by two men on Thursday.

The two players were chased for a mile by the knife-wielding motorbike riders in an attempted daylight car-jacking, the Mail Online.

But as the thugs surrounded the 4×4, Ozil’s Arsenal teammate and childhood friend, Sead ‘The Tank’ Kolasinac, leapt out and bravely took them on.

CCTV footage from the scene shows Kolasinac swinging punches at the attackers and standing his ground against them despite being threatened with a knife. The attackers’ motorbike pulls away as the footage cuts.

But rather than that being the end of the drama, the players were then chased through the mansion-lined streets of north London in Ozil’s 4×4 in a high-speed chase that lasted for more than a mile.

Ozil drove to a Turkish restaurant on Golders Green Road, where staff helped them chase away the robbers.

An Arsenal spokesman confirmed that the players had been involved in a car-jacking incident, and said that both of them “are fine”.

The Metropolitan Police have also confirmed the incident.