Arsenal boss Emery defiant about the Gunners’ defence

Unai Emery was asked a few hefty questions in the Arsenal press conference about his defence but the Gunners boss appeared determined.

When asked about his first clean sheet of the season, soemthing Arsenal has struggled to do in the past, Emery appeared dismissive. He said, “But before that, I want to win. I want to win, I want to score and I want to do a clean sheet. Today we won and we did that. The balance offensively and defensively is only taken with the victory. Today, I think, in our 90 minutes we could do that with taking the match very seriously, being very compact and controlling the game with the ball. Also, I think we created chances and we need also to create chances for our strikers and today with Auba we won.”

He went on praise Chambers and described the defensive situation at Arsenal. “Really, last year for Calum Chambers was a very good year because he played all the matches with Fulham. They played him as centre-back in a three, in a two and they played him as a midfielder. From pre-season, he deserved to play today in the first XI and he was very focused and with Sokratis was also very serious.”

“I want to have very competitive players in each position. With David Luiz, with Holding when he is coming back to help us, with training regularly and playing with the under-23s because he will play again tomorrow. And with Hector Bellerin, one month more. Today we also had Sead out and the injury to Kieran Tierney. I think we can and will want to become stronger defensively, but above all being one offensive team.”

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