Unai Emery faces Arsenal for the third time since he was sacked as the club’s manager in November 2019. The previous two meetings resulted in a win and a loss, with the most recent of the two being a win 1 -0 in the reverse match earlier this season. .
He was asked on Friday if having managed Arsenal before gave him an advantage today, replying: “Not really. I think it’s a different context, different circumstances. It’s not really anything more than playing against them, with the difficulties we will face and respecting them.
He spoke about aiming to repeat December’s win against Arsenal: “It’s different, completely different.
“Something similar because there are still a lot of players playing and fighting in these teams. But different because we are playing in the Emirates.
“We are also playing in a different context, now they are fighting for the Premier League trophy. We are fighting behind them trying to maintain our current fifth position and fighting with Tottenham.”