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‘Aubameyang has personality and confidence’

Unai Emery always had confidence in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as he stepped up to take the penalty to seal our win over Manchester United.

The striker missed a crucial late spot kick in the north London derby at Wembley last weekend, but showed no sign of nerves as he stroked home our second from 12 yards on Sunday afternoon.

“Aubameyang has experience and he’s a specialist with scoring,” the head coach said after the game. “Lacazette can also shoot and today I had the same confidence with both.

“Auba has experience and he’s taken a lot of penalties, sometimes scoring and sometimes missing.