Arsenal vs Dundalk: Filippo Giovagnoli tells players to be brave

Giovagnoli has compared his side's task as a super-lightweight trying to knock out a heavyweight
Arsenal vs Dundalk: Filippo Giovagnoli tells players to be brave

Chris Shields, left, and Greg Sloggett during a Dundalk training session at the Emirates Stadium in London, England. Picture: Ben McShane/Sportsfile

Dundalk boss Filippo Giovagnoli hasn't ruled out his side delivering a sucker punch to Arsenal when the two sides meet in a David versus Goliath match at the Emirates Stadium tonight.

The fact that Mesut Ozil, on a reported £350,000 a week, has failed to make the Gunners' Europa League squad was held up as an example of the huge gulf between the sides on the Louth men's arrival in London last night.

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