5 managers who could be under pressure right now

#4 Unai Emery

Unai Emery needs to shore up Arsenal's leaky defence

Sure, last season’s Golden Boot winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is still finding the back of the net on a regular basis, and while the Gunners have scored an impressive 11 goals in their opening 6 games, they’ve also conceded 10 – less than just 4 other sides in the league.

That statistic – as well as the alarming number of individual errors from Arsenal players that have led to goals – suggests that the Gunners’ defence is just as unreliable as it was last season despite the acquisition of David Luiz.

Emery can point to the fact that Rob Holding, Hector Bellerin and Kieran Tierney have yet to return from injury, but given his side’s recent collapse against Watford, question marks have been raised over whether the Spaniard is the right man to get the best from those players anyway.

When you add the fact that even Emery’s captain Granit Xhaka doesn’t seem convinced that things are right at the Emirates right now – he stated that his team felt “scared” during the second half of the Watford game – it doesn’t seem like Emery is overseeing a settled camp.

If Emery can manage to shore up Arsenal’s defence then his reign could turn into a successful one, but if things continue the way they are, Gunners’ fans are likely to lose patience with the Spanish boss – and the Arsenal board could do, too.