Unai Emery has admitted that teams now come to the Emirates to face his Arsenal team without any fear in their hearts. The Gunners manager, under severe pressure with his future hanging by a thread after a dreadful start to the season, insisted last night that he has the backing of the club – but admitted that it is his job to turns things around.
Arsenal have gone six games without a win, their worst run since 1998, lie eight points off fourth place in the table, and desperately need a win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League tonight to provide any sort of respite for the under fire Emery.
The Spaniard after his team face Eintracht sees his team travel to Norwich on Sunday and then face Brighton and West Ham in games that should be winnable.
But, the Spaniard admitted: “Teams come here and are playing fearlessly against us. This is the first thing we need to change. We need to change it, we need to be strong and we need to be together.
“We need to be strong for our supporters and show them our capacity and our skills. We are not showing that skill and performance 100 per cent. But tonight we are going to try to change that.
“We have been speaking about how we can improve and the first way of changing that is by being more compact. Then we can show our skills, our quality. In the last few matches, we've had tactical issues and we need to do better.”
Emery, whose team only need a point tonight to qualify for the knockout stages, knows that much more hinges on this game than that. Some 19 times during the press conference last night, he called for the fans, who had booed his team off after the dismal 2-2 draw against Southampton at the Emirates on Saturday, to get behind his team.
He said: “The players need to connect with the supporters and the supporters need to help the players. Then for me, it’s about supporting them. Some players aren’t feeling 100 per cent confident and this is the first target we need, to feel confident.”
But significantly, defender Shkodran Mustafi, asked whether he and his teammates would be playing for their manager tonight, dodged the issue, saying: “First of all we play for the club. If you play for Arsenal, you play for a big club and you know you have to give everything. We play for each other because we are a team, the boys in the dressing room and the coaching staff are all in the same boat. If the coach is under pressure, the players are too. We stick together.”
Probable team (3-5-2): Leno; Sokratis, Chambers, Mustafi; Bellerin, Ozil, Torreira, Guendouzi, Tierney; Aubameyang, Lacazette.
Eintracht (3-4-1-2): Ronnow; Abraham, Hasebe, Hinteregger; Da Costa, Rode, Fernandes, Kostic; Sow; Pacienca, Silva.

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