Roy Hodgson hopes Arsenal will be thinking about their Europa League games against Valencia when Crystal Palace play the Gunners on Sunday.
Unai Emery's team enjoyed an excellent victory against Napoli in the quarter-finals of the Europa League and remain well-placed in the battle to clinch a top-four spot in the Premier League.
Hodgson said: "Arsenal present, like Manchester City last weekend, a very difficult problem for you in the sense that they are very, very good and have some very, very good players. They themselves are in excellent form.
"We can be happy with three of our last four away games resulting in victories, that's tremendous. But it certainly doesn't lead me to believe it will make things any easier to go to the Emirates and play Arsenal on Sunday.
"(I am) looking forward to the game and congratulations to Arsenal on beating Napoli home and away in two excellent performances and hoping, I suppose, their performance against us won't be of that high of a level.
"I think Unai Emery must be very, very pleased with the way things have gone there for him. He has been able to mould a team, play the football that I guess he wants his team to play and it has been very successful football."
Crystal Palace are 5/1 to beat Arsenal on Sunday.
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Roy Hodgson hopes Arsenal will be thinking about their Europa League games against Valencia when Crystal Palace play the Gunners on Sunday.
Unai Emery's team enjoyed an excellent victory against Napoli in the quarter-finals of the Europa League and remain well-placed in the battle to clinch a top-four spot in the Premier League.
Hodgson said: "Arsenal present, like Manchester City last weekend, a very difficult problem for you in the sense that they are very, very good and have some very, very good players. They themselves are in excellent form.
"We can be happy with three of our last four away games resulting in victories, that's tremendous. But it certainly doesn't lead me to believe it will make things any easier to go to the Emirates and play Arsenal on Sunday.
"(I am) looking forward to the game and congratulations to Arsenal on beating Napoli home and away in two excellent performances and hoping, I suppose, their performance against us won't be of that high of a level.
"I think Unai Emery must be very, very pleased with the way things have gone there for him. He has been able to mould a team, play the football that I guess he wants his team to play and it has been very successful football."
Crystal Palace are 5/1 to beat Arsenal on Sunday.
Source: bet365.com