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Flamini: Arsenal will see my best years

Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini is convinced his best football is still ahead of him.

The industrious midfielder swapped the Premier League for Serie A five years ago but is back for a second spell at Emirates Stadium.

"I would say I evolved [in Italy]," he told Arsenal Player. "I'm 29 now, I played a lot of games in Italy and I had the chance to discover a new championship like the Italian league, based on a lot of tactical aspects because there is not a lot of space so I think it made my game evolve.

"I think I'm much better tactically because being in Italy for five years you learn a lot of tactical things in training, what you know is your position on the pitch. Afterwards with your age you read the game better so for your position this is important.

"Serie A is much more tactical than the English league. The English league is much quicker and physical and the intensity is very high from the beginning to the end. In Italy there is less space and that's why you don't have as many goals as you do in England."

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