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18-10-2018 | 17:35 Football
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Unai Emery speaks out on Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil comments and Aubameyang

The second international break of the season is over and now Arsenal can get back to thinking about Premier league. Arsenal take on Leicester City at the Emirates on Monday, looking for their tenth straight win in all competitions. Ahead of the game, Arsenal boss Unai Emery has faced the press. Emery on Ramsey I want every player to stay and show passion. It’s the same situation though. My focus is on the matches. The future is tomorrow. Unai Emery calls for calm over the “We’ve got our Arsenal back” chants. I am not agreeing totally with the response of the supporters. I think we need to improve a lot. I think we have to continue doing a lot of the things to get better. Emery: We need to keep working We need to continue working calmly in our bodies and our mentality. Our target now is the same as in the first matches. The first two matches we lost, against Manchester City and Chelsea. But after six matches winning in the Premier League, it hasn’t changed. Emery admits Arsenal must do better [We need] this calm because of we [beat] a lot of opposing teams with very [poor] performances. We need to stay with the best teams in the Premier League. To stay with them, we need to do better and get better at different things. Petr Cech and Ramsey latest For me, January is very far [away]. I’m thinking about Monday’s match first. I want every player to stay OK, with the mentality to prepare, to play and [be] together to win. The football, the future is tomorrow. My reason, I explain to every player and to you also, I want the mentality for the next match. Individual things are not for me to speak about now. Sokratis update from Emery The players are coming back now. Only Sokratis had one problem, one small injury. Maybe for Monday, it’s difficult [for him to play]. The others are OK. On playing on Monday nights I prefer to play Saturday or Sunday. It [playing on Monday] has the advantage for more time to prepare the match - that’s one positive. After we are going to play Thursday, we are going to play Sunday also, two matches very quickly after Leicester. For me, it’s not an excuse because we are preparing for Monday. For us this match against Leicester has the same importance as the other matches. After winning six games in the Premier League, we need to continue to be demanding in each match and think about the next match as the most important. On if Ramsey could sign a new deal It’s the same, my answer. My focus is on every match. The football, the future is tomorrow. My reason, I explain to every player and to you also, I want the mentality for the next match. Individual things are not for me to speak about now. On if Ramsey is still part of his plans I want his performance like the other players. For example, in the last match he started on the bench, then he played 25 minutes with this performance. On Monday it’s the same if he starts in the first XI or on the bench, to come with the focus for this match to help us. It’s not different for other players. Emery opens on Wenger's Ozil comments It’s the same with Mesut. The motivation is very important for us. We want to find this motivation every day from every player. On Aubameyang coming back from international duty He didn’t play the last match [for Gabon]. Today he’s training with us like the other players who are working here. He played 45 minutes against the under-23s for us today. I think it’s good when he’s thinking also to play one match with the national team and the rest to stay better with us.

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