Arsenal manager Unai Emery has almost written his side off the race to finish among the top four clubs in the Premier League at the end of this season. The Gunners have recently struggled to get results in their favour and are currently stranded at the sixth position in the league table after 25 matches.
When asked whether his team are to be considered as outsiders to qualify for the Champions League next season, the Spaniard said, “Now, yes. Because we are sixth. It’s practical but it is like that. I trust in our capacity to take but it is like that.”
He added, “The first is [to say] there are teams now better than us. They have an advantage to us. And we need to be calm and also very demanding of ourselves in our minds for work and to be consistent over 38 matches. Now Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham, also – they are doing a big difference between us, but Chelsea and Manchester United, very big teams, also with a difference [to the top three] but they are closer than us.”
He also said, “We can think our way is hard, is strong, is difficult but with a possibility and the possibility is because we are three points only behind Chelsea and one point behind Manchester United and they are two very big teams. I think we need to continue thinking in our capacity to be in the top four. But knowing it’s difficult.”
Emery concluded, “It’s not to think we’re playing under pressure, it’s to be demanding and also [we have] ambition to be in the top four. Also knowing other teams, they have an advantage to us.”
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