Silva admits four Arsenal stars 'can punish any team' in Prem; tight-lipped on Arteta's 60m target
Marco Silva acknowledged Arsenal’s attribute can punish any type of team in the Premier League before the London rivals one night stand at Craven House on Sunday.
Mikel Arteta’s team will be arranging to reclaim after Thursday’s poor 2-0 defeat at residence to West Ham as shortly as they travel to challenge a Fulham side that have thrown away 3 galleries in a row.
Cottagers company Silva extensive Arsenal’s potencies and labelled for his players to be defensively unbeatable if they are to replicate their late 2-2 draw at the Emirates.
“They are a elevation side, most distinctly no skepticism,” Silva said.
“Their defensive organisation is sincerely commendable and via their positional attack it philosophies they can sustain at the highest level.
“They have the chance to push a team ago sincerely low and it is perplexing to press them sincerely high since as shortly as they outdistanced the pressure they are a hardy team to challenge.
“(Oleksandr) Zinchenko offers them attribute via an auxiliary individual in the core and the selects of (Gabriel) Martinelli, (Bukayo) Saka, (Martin) Odegaard and (Kai) Havertz are a menace and can punish any type of team in this suburban.
“We need to be nicely organised and stick together in particular moments. They are pressuring us, posing us under pressure in moments and as shortly as we have the ball we have to share ourselves as nicely.”
Joao Palhinha’s summertime transfer to Bayern Munich collapsed on deadline day and the Portugal globally is prospective to be a hot domestic for European nightclubs after an gorgeous initially fifty percent of the period and is being tied via a £60m solutions to Arsenal.
But Silva stuck harshly tight-lipped around the future of unanimously of his players, insisting most distinctly no methodology has been administered by any type of nightclub.
He added: “I refuge’t even chatted to the board around it. I can claim to you that we have 100 per penny not acquired anything or any type of methodology for our players.
“We are totally fixated on the galleries during the December duration, which is hardy for everyone, and we refuge’t acquired any type of.
“If something is investigating out arrive then the player will evaluate yet if I am being uncomplicated we are arranging to deepen the team and not lose our pertinent players.”
Fulham, that thrown away 3-0 to Bournemouth on December 26, will have had 2 days longer to prepare than Arsenal, that tinkered on December 28.
Sunday’s match will be both side’s eighth component in unanimously occasions this month yet Silva executes not assume the auxiliary rest will confer Fulham an advantage.
He said: “I put on’t check-up it as an advantage since Arsenal have also tinkered 7 galleries this month and so have we.
“We tinkered on the 23rd and 26th and Arsenal tinkered on the 23rd and the 28th so we can’t just look at the next off gallery yet also the galleries before whereby they had auxiliary time to prepare for the gallery versus West Ham.”