Unai Emery’s first season at Arsenal ended with a whimper. They collapsed from a commanding position in the league to finish outside the top 4 and produced a spineless performance in the Europa League final to clinch another season of Thursday night football. Murmurs of Emery Out are already starting to emerge amongst the Arsenal fanbase, but out of the cornucopia of problems that is Arsenal football club, how much of this falls on the shoulders of our head coach, Unai Emery? Let’s put recency bias aside, look back at his season as a whole, and come up with an overall grade for his first season at Arsenal.
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The Europa League final is the most significant game in the recent history of the club. The club’s future for the next couple of seasons hangs on the results of this game. Whether or not Unai Emery’s season will be seen as a success depends on this one game. The caliber of players in the squad in the next few seasons depends on whether champions league qualification is attained through this game. As an added bonus, we’re playing local rivals Chelsea which comes with its own set of storylines. Petr Cech is playing his last game in a European cup final against the club at which he is a club legend and, if the stories are to be believed, will be joining as a sporting director next season. The much beloved Oli G stands in Arsenal’s way, after flopping in big European ties in the past for Arsenal (Monaco away, I’m looking at you). Eden Hazard is probably playing his last game in Chelsea blue. It’s all too much to take. Let’s try to take a step back and see if we can get a better perspective on where the game will be won and lost. Injuries
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