Unai Emery congratulates Aaron Ramsey "awesome" after Arsenal's victory over Napoli | Football News

Arsenal will face Watford Monday night before the second leg of the quarter-final of the Europa League on Thursday

Unai Emery congratulated Aaron Ramsey on his "impressive" show after helping Arsenal defeat Napoli 2-0 in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday.

Ramsey opened the scoring in the 14th minute before Lucas Torreira's attack was deflected by Kalidou Koulibaly shortly thereafter.

Ramsey must leave the club this summer on a free transfer to join Juventus after failing to accept a new contract.

Asked about Ramsey's performance, Gunners boss Emery said, "Great, I think he wants to do something important with us, to help us do something important because I think that he feels all Arsenal.

"Here, with our supporters, he gives us more than anything he can to do the best performance, not individually but thinking about the collective.

"I want to enjoy this moment with him.I want to do something important right now with him.His goal is now very important, only thinking about Arsenal."

Arsenal could have won the match with a bigger margin, as they missed several opportunities, especially in the first period when they controlled the procedure.

"I'm happy at 60%," said Emery. "We know that the first leg today was very important to get good results and a feeling of satisfaction among our supporters.

"I think we deserved the result, we controlled the game with the ball and the positioning, we can take their field with the players and score two goals.

"We did not concede a lot, in the second half, it was different, because they pushed more and had more possession.We know it will be very difficult, their home performances are usually They will use all their attacks against us. "

Arsenal next to Watford on Monday night football before heading to Naples for the second leg on Thursday.

"They will feel different from those of today," said Emery about the trip to Naples.

"We have to be competitive, we have to be strong in our mentality to try to do the same thing as at home, sometimes when we are with the ball, when we have room, we attack that space. absent, we sometimes lose the spirit that we have at home, it is our challenge to find success in this season.

"We have to be consistent at home, maybe with a different way, a different idea, a different player or system, but the same mindset."