Arsenal manager Unai Emery has told his players to embrace the pressure of Thursday's Europa League last-16 clash with Rennes.

The Gunners must overturn a 3-1 deficit from the first leg when the sides meet at the Emirates.

"We are very demanding on ourselves. It is a positive issue," Emery told a news conference on Wednesday.

"We want to play top matches against the best teams. In the Europa League, we are finding some results, like the last round versus Borisov, difficult.

"This is the same with a bad result in the first round. It will be a tough match but our demand for our best performance is very high. I want to play matches with difficult results, against tough players.

"We need to be together and create a big atmosphere with our supporters to help us. We need to play with high emotion but taking clever decisions on the pitch. These are both important issues. We need to control the 90 minutes, maybe more.

"Our thoughts are now positive. We are thinking to play 90 minutes with our game plan and our best tactical decisions on the pitch and being organised with our quality.

"In the first 90 minutes, they beat us and tomorrow, we will want to show here it can be different, but with a big respect to them and also knowing we need all the players with the focus to control our emotions and control the different situations and scenarios that can come in the 90 minutes."