LENO TO START EUROPA LEAGUE OPENER

Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno is to start the Vorskla Poltava game on Thursday night as Unai Emery looks to improve the club's style...

Leno was signed from Bayer Leverkusen earlier this summer for a reported £19m fee, but is yet to start a competitive game for the Gunners.

Petr Cech has been the man who has kept him out of the side; but the former Czech 'keeper admitted his future may be elsewhere from the Emirates.

Leno was supposedly brought in to try and fit Emery's style, which is playing out from his defence, and Cech has been criticised for his inability to do just that.

Emery told journalists, as he was previewing their Europa League opener, that the goalkeeper position is "for work".

"Bernd Leno is going to play on Thursday," Emery revealed. "We need to give him the chances, 90 minutes.

"Each goalkeeper has different qualities. But they cannot change our style. Maybe one quality is better Leno than Petr, maybe one Petr than Leno.

"We need the same style and to work to improve each goalkeeper in our style."

Emery defends his decision to keep Cech as number one goalkeeper since Leno's arrival and said he is "very happy" with the German goalkeeper's progress.

"He's here because he showed us his quality," the Arsenal manager said. "The quality for the goalkeeper for me, is being complete. He has it.

"He can go a long way here at Arsenal. He's young."