Arsenal play Aston Villa in a must-win Premier League match on Sunday evening. There has been a lot of discussion about this game, but I believe Gooners are eager to hear Unai Emery’s perspective.
The former Arsenal manager has properly stated that he and his team would enter that game as underdogs. He admits that, despite beating Arsenal 1-0 at Villa Park, it will be difficult to face this Arsenal side at the Emirates, where they have not lost in their last seven games. He believes Arsenal’s passion and desire to win the league will make them more determined. He’s also worried that he will not be able to have his strongest squad.
Reports have suggested Jacob Ramsey, Emi Buendia, Boubacar Kamara, Matty Cash, and Tyrone Mings are all out due to injuries. And Arsenal transfer target Douglas Luiz is also anticipated to miss the game after receiving his tenth card of the season, last weekend, when Villa and Brentford drew 3-3.
“It’s different, completely different,” Emery said. “We played at home here at Villa Park in December (compared to) the match we are going to play on Sunday.
“Something similar because there’s a lot of players again playing, fighting in those teams. But different because we’re playing at the Emirates, we’re playing as well in a different context, now they are fighting for the Premier League trophy.
“We’re fighting behind them trying to keep our fifth position we have now and fighting with Tottenham. Different as well because some players, of course, being injured are not going to play on Sunday.”
For Gunners, these claims offer optimism, boosting their chances for a win Sunday evening. Hopefully, as expected, this game should yield another three points for Arsenal, allowing our Gunners to maintain their lead in the Premier League with six games remaining.
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No strings attached, Mikel’s got to keep it professional.
I do not see us dropping even a single point(actually, if we drew, it would be two points) but our title chances in my deeply considered opinion come down MAINLY to two factors. We need to be beaten by BM next wee kand thus avoid a realy hectic two games a week schedule. IMO we never had a real chance to win the CL outright and still dont.
We have not th experience nor the craftiness that top European clubs have and I believe we will lose at Munich.
That is point one. Point two is that I also think we will beat United away and Chelsea at home(as I included them above) The real challenge wil be avoiding injuries to key players AND beating Spurs at WHL.
Both will be demanding, but avoiding injuries will be far easier if we reduce our schedule, which is simply logical thinking.
It will in reality come down to will we beat Spurs or will we not.
I do not see City or Pool dropping silly points either, though we will of course hope.
But hope is not something to base considered predictions on and so I dont.
It COULD all go spectacularly wrong tomorrow, but I much doubt it. I remain very hopeful for the PREM TITLE, ESP IF WE LOSE AT BM.
It might well depend on it!!
… not dropping a single point at HOME(actually…. etc)
It’s possible that we lose at BM but it is not credible to suggest that we “need” to lose.
Losing would mean that we have to focus on the PL. However, this does not guarantee that we will go on to win our remaining games.
What we need is to avoid injury to key players and maintain momentum. Trying to be “clever” and focusing on one or the other can go spectacularly badly.
YES David, everything is a risk. But I suggest trying to minimise risk by NOT needlessly playing games when we are not, at least NOT IMO, going to win CL anyway.
I never thought we would or ever could, as we are not ready yet at that level. It takes time!
It took City a number of years befor winning it. And THEY have a bigger, deeper squad than we do.
You opinion is of course a valid one but it is not one I share at all..
Sorry doubting Thomas,we are winning everything at stake ,keep calm and watch.
Arsenal should win tomorrow with minimum fuss, though the Villans has several player out its their all-round Brazilian they will miss most.
Hi. Gunners, good luck n it’s now forward ever backwards never. We’ve got this. Olive in the country of Eswatini way down in Africa
Aston villa will play with 11 players and a full bench of substitutes ,tricks aside let’s go on full throttle as we wait to thrash Beryern next week,no room for excuses.
I think we will win 6 of the remaining 7 games left. Maybe a draw at Spurs. And that should be enough to win the league.
Liverpool and Man city won’t win their remaining games. We will get to the semi final of the champions league as well.
Skills, how does it help us by getting to tthe semi final of CL, if we are not to win it?? It DOESNT!
But it will do our PREM CHASE HARM , BY MEANING GAMES TWICE A WEEK AND HIGHER RISK OF KEY PLAYER INJURIES AND FATIGUE.
Not sensible thinking but being greedy and unrealistic IMO.
As a realist i never gave us a serious chance , from the outset, of winning the CL and would TBH, have been perfectly content if we had not made the quarters.
I do not want to go further in it UNLESS we can win it and IMO we cant.
So lets be real and stop chasing fools gold,
and two trophies, each of which will harm the chance of the other.
SO LETS WIN THE LEAGUE COMPETION, THE PREM, rather than worrying about a cup competition , even though its falsely called a Champions LEAGUE . It is NOT a league at all but it is a cup comp.
And as such, its a lesser trophy.
I want the PREM and I dont want pointless extra games that actively harm our PREM chances. REALITY!.
I think it’s a bit sad that as an Arsenal fan you don’t have that much confidence in the team. Look at the champions like Man City, Real Madrid, they find ways to balance the CL and their respective league and tbh if Arsenal are to be considered world class, then these are precisely the kinds of challenges that we have to find ways to overcome. We’re in contention for both PL and CL so why would we focus on one with the mentality that we don’t stand a chance in the CL and it’s not that this is a guarantee of winning PL. So in my opinion it’s all about mentality from here on out, and a winning mentality for that matter and getting rid of any scares of getting injuries cause it’s part of the game. But using that as a way to say that we focus on one possibility of silverware is the type of mentality that we will always have that we can’t handle both.
Rico, nothing to do with “confidence” at all.
But EVERYTHING to do with realism.
I recommend its use to you if you have ambitions to become a really deep thinker.
You guys are quite funny oo
Champions League doesn’t mean games twice a week. we have just four!!! games btw BM & the final on June 1. Four games in seven weeks is not two games a week to me. Besides premier League ends on the 19th of May then final is June 1st. how does it justify wanting ur club to lose our so you can compete for the league. Last season did you win the league after crashing out of Europe!? Man city won the league and the CL , what stops arsenal from doing same. You guys want to accept failure because of a false hope based on a wrong premise.
But its NOT your incorrect”four” games at all, but in total eleven, IF by some chance we were to go to the CL final.
You chose also to ignore the fact that City have tried many times for the CL in recent times but onlyand finally won it last year after many failures . AND they have had and still have a deeper in top quality squad then we do. If you choose to ignore salient facts then feel free to do so.
I choose NOT to though, which is WHY I am a REALIST!
“10th red card of the season”?
Hard to believe. Should that be 10th yellow?
Exactly a tenth yellow card
🤣 The editing of articles is often poor.
Thanks for the vote of confidence jax!
It’s not your fault, but the writers who don’t edit before submitting their articles. There are so many mistakes.
Red card x10. 3 game ban for each, 30game suspension 🤣🤣 obv was yellow cards but made me do the math
It’s a must win for Arsenal, mostly Villa without Douglas Luiz and Emi Buendia it’s a big loss.
We’ve better Squard to all of these 8teams..our bench is so strong than any team.Me i believe on ARSENAL bcoz i support that team…let’s not be negative about our strong team guys