Samuel Oladipuo Essoodee
Unai Emery has revealed he spoke to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang about his targets prior to the Arsenal striker’s winning the Golden Boot this season.
After the Burnley game, Emery confirmed to ‘BBC Sport’ that Aubameyang had his eye on winning the Golden Boot this season: “Yes that was another target also.
“We spoke yesterday and he wanted to play today for this opportunity and the team, every player, also were with this commitment to help him if we can.
“We are really very pleased for him that he reached his target and I think today we can be happy with him.”
On Arsenal’s season, he added: “I’m proud of the players and our work because I think we deserved to be fighting for the top four.
At the last moment we didn’t take it but we are closer to the other teams in our progress. We have the Europa League, we can play for one title.
“High performance today, they worked a lot in a very tough match here. We adapted the game plan and little by little we imposed our idea. A very good 90 minutes for them, us and the supporters.
“We won and we deserved it. We created chances and in the first half we struggled in moments but this is normal here with the corners and crosses. But we defended well and we could win and could play like we wanted to.”
Aubameyang went into the final game of the Premier League season trailing Mohamed Salah in the race to become the division’s top marksman.
But his two goals in the Gunners 3-1 win over Burnley saw him draw level with the Liverpool striker to claim his first Premier League Golden Boot award.
Liverpool’s Sadio Mane also managed to bag a brace against Wolves on the weekend, resulting in all three players tying for first prize with 22 goals each.
