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Arsenal Manager Unai Emery Has Worrying News for Gunners Strikers in Revealing Interview

Arsenal manager Unai Emery has hinted that he doesn't intend to play with a front two next season - which makes it seem unlikely that strikers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette will be deployed together.

In a wide ranging interview with Spanish journalist Martí Perarnau - quoted by Football.London - Emery expressed his preference for a 4-1-4-1 system.

"If the ball is in play, you press. If play stops, you reposition yourself. For me, the 4-1-4-1 is the system which facilitates that type of pressing," Emery said.

If Emery uses this system at the Emirates, it is difficult to see how two strikers could be deployed together - which likely means that only one of Aubameyang or Lacazette will feature in the manager's first choice lineup.