Arsenal defender Stephan Lichtsteiner is aiming for Europa League glory with the Gunners this season and says that the side won’t rest on their morales in the compeitition, as reported by the Daily Mail.
Lichtsteiner has said that the Gunners are keen to win the Europa League this season and regain their place in the UEFA Champions League for next season after an explosive night of Champions League football yesterday evening saw 21 goals from just 8 games.
Arsenal get their Europa League campaign underway on Thursday night against Ukranian side Vorskla Poltava and Lichtsteiner says that his side are ready for whatever the Europa League throws at them this season.
I am hungry to get back to the Champions League.
But it is a long way and we have two chances – the Europa League and the Premier League. We want to try as I am sure we want to play Champions League next year.
To come back to the glamour games you need to win first the other games. Now we are in the situation that we are playing Europa League and we will try to win that so hopefully next year we can speak about the Champions League.
One thing I learned with Juventus is to have respect for each competition. In the last four or five years with Juventus, we tried to play for all the titles, for all the trophies.
While the Italian Cup wasn’t that important beforehand, we started to play for it with the best team possible. I think in football you have to respect all the trophies.
Of course the Champions League is a more glamorous title, but the Europa League is a really good chance for the team, for the club and all the players to win this nice trophy.
I think for that we have to respect all teams in all competitions to give all games 100 per cent.’ Meanwhile, manager Unai Emery has confirmed he will make changes from the team that started the win over Newcastle on Sunday.
Tomorrow we are going to change things to give players the opportunity to find minutes, to find confidence on the pitch and then maybe tomorrow’s players can play on Sunday too.
