Freddie Ljungberg Ready For Toxic Emirates Atmosphere Against Manchester City

Arsenal are about to host Manchester City at the Emirates as Freddie Ljungberg prepares for the toxicity from the home fans.

The Gunners faithful are not pleased with how the club is being run and they voice their opinions every gameweek.

It is expected to be a difficult night for Arsenal, going up against the English champions but Ljungberg is ready to meet the challenge. He said, “It’s the right of the fans to be this way.

“Of course, I want them to be with us and I know how much it means to the players and I can see sometimes when it happens (bad atmosphere) they can go a little bit down. But that’s something I will talk to them about. They already know about it but I will try to prepare them for if and when [it] happens.

“But I think when we play City at home, the fans know it will be a very tough game and will be with us regardless. I want to make sure I respect the decisions and voice of the fans. In my opinion they are the club – and we try to do the best we can for them.

“We try to respect them and make them know we are doing this. I hope they have seen that in the last fortnight.”

Ljungberg’s only win as the Arsenal head coach came against West Ham United last weekend. He added, “It’s an incredible honour. The club wants me to do this and I’ve been preparing for this for five years.

“I did the second team here because I knew I’d want to be the boss somewhere. Of course, I pinch myself. I try not to think about it too much. You can’t do anything overnight. I try to impact things on the grass but that’s not so easy when like today I have only six players to work with. So we don’t have much time to train but we use videos and try to develop that way.

“I am a fan, too, and I want Arsenal back winning trophies but as I say this won’t happen over night. Of course, there are things to fix now and that we can do better. I have a list of about 10 to 15 things we need to urgently get right. But you can’t do all those things at once.”