West Ham boss: Our goal ‘more important’ than Arsenal’s

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In fact, West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo believes his team’s ‘mission’ is even more important than Arsenal’s.

“We know it’s going to be hard, but we’ve proved to ourselves at West Ham nobody gives up,” Nuno told Sky Sports.

“We know we’re going to face probably one of the toughest matches that we have, we are speaking about a team that is playing really good, achieving amazing things, the final of the Champions League, they are fighting for the league title.

“We know how good they are, how talented they are. But we have our things too that we want to prove, we want to compete, and realise that the mission we have in our hands is more important than anything.

“The boys are working well, they’re going to be ready.”

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Arsenal have had a mixed record against West Ham since Declan Rice’s move between the two clubs a few years ago. The Gunners have won three of those games, 6-0, 5-2, and 2-0, but they’ve lost the other three, 3-1 (in the League Cup), 2-0, and 1-0.

The positive omen ahead of the game is that Arsenal have won both of their league games at the London Stadium over the last couple of seasons, so they’ll hope they can pull off another win on Sunday and set the last phase of their title run-in on the right track.