Unai Emery has admitted that Chelsea and Manchester United are better placed to finish in the top four.
When asked whether hesaw Arsenal to be outsiders to qualify for the Champions League, Emery responded: “Now, yes.
His words, “Because we are sixth. It’s practical but it is like that. I trust in our capacity to take but it is like that.
“The first is [to say] there are teams now better than us,” Emery said, when asked about his record against the best sides in the division.
“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.
“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.
“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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