Robert Pires makes bold prediction over Arsenals top-four and Europa League chances

Robert Pires has been impressed with how Unai Emery has improved Arsenal since taking charge and is backing them to both win the Europa League and finish in the top four.

The Gunners moved back up into fourth place with a win over Manchester United and are just one point behind third-placed Tottenham, while they overturned a 3-1 deficit to progress to the quarter-final of the Europa League.

Arsenal were handed a tough draw against Napoli but Pires is backing his old club to go all the way as well as holding off United and Chelsea in the fight for a top-four place.

I think Unai Emery is a good manager, hes won some titles with Sevilla, with Paris Saint-Germain, the Frenchman told ESPN.

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For the end of the season, he has two targets: to reach the top four and – why not – to win the Europa League competition.

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Thats why Arsenal are in a very good way and thats why Im very confident and very positive always when I talk about Arsenal.

I think they can reach both targets. Of course it will be very difficult, but the squad is very good, we have good quality.

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