Unai Emery Rejects Sean Dyche’s “Diving” Claims
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Unai Emery has rejected all diving claims after Burnley manager Sean Dyche accused the Arsenal players of diving.
The Gunners got back to winning ways following two consecutive defeats in the last two matches. A Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and a late Alex Iwobi striker gave the home side much to cheer in this festive period.
Burnley did one pull back through Ashley Barnes but the North London giants had the situation under their control. Dyche claimed some of the Gunners players fell down too easily without any pressure from the Burnley players.
But Emery who was under tremendous pressure thinks they did everything right in the game.
“I do not agree with him.
“Also we can and need everybody and for the first time we are leading at half-time of a match in a Premier League. And we need the respect of a referee and we need respect between us.”
“We expected long balls, section actions, pushes – they also have good players and their attacking players created problems for us
“And then we needed to impose our game plan, but we worked very well today, it was a tough match like we expected and we are happy with this victory.
“Physicality is part of football and you need to be physically strong. Both teams needed to impose themselves physically and with quality. We imposed our game plan in our moment and this victory is a consequence of this and we are pleased with this.”