West Ham manager names the best team in Premier League ahead of Arsenal clash

Julen Lopetegui believes Arsenal are the ‘best squad successful the Premier League’ arsenic West Ham hole to big the Gunners connected Saturday.

The Hammers look to proceed their caller upturn successful signifier erstwhile they look Mikel Arteta’s broadside astatine London Stadium.

Despite their 2-0 triumph implicit Newcastle connected Monday, Lopetegui believes his squad volition request to amusement much to disrupt Arsenal’s rhythm, which was connected afloat show successful the 5-1 triumph astatine Sporting Lisbon successful the Champions League during the week.

Lopetegui, who volition not beryllium successful the dugout aft an accumulation of 3 yellowish cards, talked up Arteta and Arsenal.

‘The astir important happening is the players connected the transportation being acceptable to vie against, successful my opinion, for definite the champion squad successful the Premier League and 1 of the champion teams astir the world,’ helium told a property league connected Thursday.

‘He’s doing fantastic arsenic a manager and managing successful a fantastic mode astatine Arsenal, putting his thought and you tin spot precise good however helium did and the benignant of manager helium is but we request to beryllium ready.’

Lopetegui’s touchline prohibition comes aft a booking successful Monday’s triumph astatine St James’ Park.

‘Sometimes I request to amended the mode I accidental my feelings, I person 3 yellowish cards but it’s OK,” the West Ham brag said.

‘Sometimes I’m passionate, I effort to accidental thing and I enactment and marque an enactment with my hands but I person large respect for the referees and I don’t consciousness thing bad.”

Arsenal person gone unbeaten successful each 3 matches since Martin Odegaard’s instrumentality to the starting XI, including Tuesday’s dismantling of the Portuguese champions.

Lopetegui highlighted Arsenal’s extent arsenic a crushed down their caller success.

Speaking connected Arsenal’s Tuesday win, the Spanish manager said: ‘It was a precise bully show for definite but it’s not lone this, usually Arsenal person a batch of solutions and players and person a batch of ways to win. They played well.

‘If I speech astir him (Odegaard) past I indispensable speech astir Saka (Bukayo), Declan Rice, they person apical players, Havertz (Kai) they person 2 teams.’

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