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Last updated: 18/01/19 22h34
Unai Emery admits Saturday's clash with Chelsea is a match that Arsenal can not afford to lose if they want to be in the top four this season.
Last weekend's 1-0 loss to West Ham leaves Arsenal, fifth in the standings, six points behind Saturday's visitors. Arsenal's difficulties are compounded by Manchester United's win at Tottenham, which allowed United to score points with the Gunners.
Chelsea have nine wins over Arsenal with a victory at Emirates Stadium, which, according to Emery, would be a gap that his team would have trouble filling, with 15 league games to play after this weekend.
Arsenal was beaten by West Ham at the London derby last weekend
When asked if a nine-point lead for Chelsea would put fourth place out of Arsenal's reach, Emery replied, "I think so.
"After our defeat at West Ham, the situation is very different: having a difference of three points over Chelsea or six points, but the match is over and the next game is against Chelsea, we have an opportunity in mind.
2:40 Highlights of West Ham's 1-0 win over Arsenal
"If we win, we can be closer to them and continue our way, and I think every player has this ambition and opportunity to play Saturday with all we can against."
1:31 Arsenal head coach, Unai Emery, has not considered the possibility that Mesut Ozil will leave the club.
Emery said Thursday that he had not considered leaving the club for Mesut Ozil, who had suffered fitness and fitness this weekend, and that he only participated in the event. In four of the last 13 Arsenal matches, in all competitions.
Ozil is regularly coached this week and is available for selection after his absence from the group for defeat against Manuel Pellegrini's team at London Stadium.
3:35 Charlie Wyett, a journalist with the Sunday Supplement newspaper, says Unai Emery does not want Mesut Ozil at Arsenal and takes a stand by leaving it to one side.
When asked if he wanted Ozil available against West Ham, Emery said, "We won with him, we lost with him, we won without him and we lost without him.
"I think we need all the players and sometimes we can not decide to play one or the other, but I think this team can find a performance with or without Mesut."
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