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'The biggest game of my Arsenal career? Maybe'

It is almost exactly two years to the day since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a hat-trick against Valencia in the second leg of a Europa League semi-final.

Now our captain will be looking for another big performance - both individually and collectively - when we face Villarreal on Thursday night.

"Definitely it was a good performance [against Valencia] and it was a big game as well," Aubameyang said. "Yes I think it was my best performance since I’ve been here at Arsenal. It was really great game, hopefully I can do it tomorrow again!

"I think I was really motivated in these types of games because a few times I have received some criticism of not being involved in big games, so I wanted to show people that it’s not true.