Emery assesses Europa League win over Napoli

Unai Emery has said that Arsenal have proven themselves in the big stage after their win over Napoli in Naples.

“I grew up a lot in this competition and I think the Europa League gives us a big opportunity, when we cannot play in the Champions League, to do something important,” he told his post-match news conference.

“It’s one title but it gives us the opportunity to play in the Champions League next year, when our domestic league has a lot of teams also trying to take this ticket.

“The Europa League is for us now, with the Premier League, an important competition.

“I think Napoli, with their supporters, showed us they wanted to do something important here. We won because we worked really well and made a big performance.

“We showed good personality to play with our idea. We wanted to keep more of the ball but we didn’t do all I wanted.

“In the positional play we were very good and doing good pressing against them because they want to build up possession with combinations.

“We did big pressure against them and were in their box a lot of moments with the possibility to score.”

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