Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger expects Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew to be calmer on the touchline tonight.

Pardew has served his seven-match ban after his infamous headbutt on Hull's David Meyler in March.

Wenger said: "He will try to control himself much more.

"It's a job where you are under huge pressure I believe it is linked as well with the period of the season.

"It's easier to be calm in September than in March. Because every game is 'Kill or be killed'.

"This period of the season you feel much more under pressure as a manager. In September you think, OK we lost this game but we still have time to catch up.

"Now, one, two, three games to go you look at the table at the bottom, at the top, and everybody feels like you are playing Russian Roulette."