Rennes Clash Will Be Difficult – Unai Emery

Arsenal boss, Unai Emery has said his team is expecting a difficult return leg against Rennes today as the English side hope to overturn a two-goal deficit to seal qualification to the next round.

The London team succumbed to a 3-1 defeat in France after 90 minutes.

However, Emery believes the match, like their last game against Manchester United which they won, can only bring out the best in his boys.

His words, “For us, it’s one positive issue because we want to play big matches, tough matches against the best teams,”

“I want to play matches that are difficult, with difficult results or with difficult players. Tomorrow is one such match. We need to be together and create a big atmosphere in the Emirates with our supporters to help us to do the best performance possible in 90 minutes.

“We need to play with high emotion with our supporters but taking clever decisions on the pitch.”

“We can play with two strikers, we can play with one,”

“Tomorrow I am thinking not only of the first 11, because I think we are going to need different situations, maybe different systems and maybe different players.”

“They are a good team in a good moment and they have quality with different players. They have spirit and have fresh players playing offensively,”

“They won against Betis over two matches with a big performance.

“In the first 90 minutes they beat us and tomorrow we want to show here it can be different. But we have a big respect for them. We need to control our emotions and control the different situations and scenarios that can come in the 90 minutes.”