Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has spoken of comparisons between Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Manchester City ace Sergio Aguero.

Arteta worked with Aguero while coach with City.

He said, "They have completely different qualities overall, but a very common thing which is that they have an incredible ability to put the ball in the back of the net, for sure. Very different characters, very different players.

"Both ruthless to train, to keep scoring goals, being annoyed if they don't do so, and an incredible talent to do the most difficult thing in football: scoring goals."

Arteta went onto compare Aubameyang with former Arsenal captain Robin van Persie.

He added: "Yeah when we played with Robin [van Persie], he used to make the difference for us every week. I always say that he was one of the strikers I most enjoyed playing with because of his intelligence, the overall quality to play around in any position in area of the field and as well the quality of his finishing and movement.

"Now we have the luck of having Auba and a player that can do that in any moment of the game. We have to feed him and put in the right position as much as possible in the game to help us win as much as we can."