Arsenal: Unai Emery says his side must improve to catch Man City
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Arsenal boss Unai Emery says his team must improve in several areas if they are to catch the Premier League's frontrunners - despite their fine form.
A win over Leicester City on Monday (20:00 BST) would give the Gunners a 10th straight victory, their best sequence of results since October 2007.
However Emery, whose side could move into third with a victory by four goals, is still demanding more.
"We need to get better in a lot of things now," Emery said.
"It is our best target now, don't stop. Think and analyse with the players to improve."
Since defeat to Manchester City and Chelsea in the opening two games of the season, the Spaniard - who joined Arsenal in May - has steered his new club to victories in every game.
But Emery is conscious Arsenal are still playing catch-up with those two clubs - with leaders City five points ahead of his side and Chelsea three clear.
"We need to carry on to find our best individual and collective performance to stay close to them," he added.
"They are two teams in form and with more points than us. Their qualities and performances are very, very high. But also we are improving our things.
Full-back Hector Bellerin echoed his manager's sentiments and says the players are still adjusting to Emery's style of play.
"Rome wasn't built in a day," he told the club's website.
"We probably risk it a bit more than before, but for us it is important for our fans and for everyone around us to believe in this idea we have.
"For us it is about getting used to the system, be a team, be competitive and have this winning mentality, take it to the next level and become the team that the manager has in mind."
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I think we can regain our top 4 place this season, and hopefully have a proper crack at the title next season.
Their longed-for 'crisis' at Arsenal - driven 100% by them - remains on the backburner
We're playing some good stuff - something else that gets under the media's skin - plus Lacazette and Aubameyang look great up front
So until we do drop some points, you'll have to carry on swooning over the greatest spurs side for decades. They won the league in 1961, you know.
Losing first game to the best team in the country, followed by an away defeat at the Bridge is hardly conclusive evidence. It is too early to judge where we are relative to the other top teams.
I just hope the board back him.....
Emery is a proven winner and looks set to continue to enhance his reputation.
Lets see how they do around January to see if they have turned the right corner cause that's when they usually implode and go missing.
Still above Utd & the foul Jose but...;)
This is not silly talk, Aubam has helped Laca get his confidence back scoring some blinding goals. His work rate fighting to win the ball back is brutal.
None of us are looking at other teams at last, we are just enjoying the change for the better.
No time to be taunting others thanks.
he dares to criticize them, ie Conte and Mourinho both of who won you the PL.
But what I do guarentee arsenal fans will see is Roman getting hump because the UK want to look into his finaces and withdrawing his backing for chelseas new stadium (already done) and then withdrawing his cash followed by Chelsea football club blinking out of existence followed by AFC Chelsea being born a month funded by Pat Nevin and Kerry Dixons barber. Big derby with Wimbledon to come
It's not arrogance to believe T4 is attainable, many teams below AFC would love to be unbeaten in 10. table never lies either.
The fan base are just happy with the way things are going, many feared it would be for the worse.
Considering how things were last season, we all look forward to being back to a team nobody wanted to play.