Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has labelled former club Arsenal as Premier League title favourites. This comes ahead of Tuesday’s crunch clash between the two teams, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he does not believe Villa can win their first league title since the 1980-81 campaign, so he expects clubs with depth like Arsenal to be the favourites to win the EPL.
Emery added that being three points behind the table toppers is an amazing achievement for his team thus far.
His words, “I think they are favourites. How they are building the team. How they are improving a lot of things. They have more players in their squad, two players in each position. Some players they have had coming back after being injured like [Kai] Havertz and [Gabriel] Jesus. And of course, look and see now – stronger.
We analyse to play them tomorrow like we analysed three weeks ago and we have enough players, enough structure, tactically, individually and mentally to face them, but, of course, it is going to be the biggest test we will face.
Manchester City as well, they are performing fantastic and we must be proud of everything we are doing – one point behind Man City and three points behind Arsenal, but we must be humble, we must be confident but we must be, as well, ambitious. Our ambition is, go tomorrow to face them, and we will see how we are facing them.”
On if Villa can win the EPL, “Not really.
I am feeling that we are competing for Europe, not competing in the league with Man City and Arsenal. We have played 18 matches and have 20 to play. Teams like Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United – we must compete with them. We must be consistent over 38 matches.”
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