At-risk Emery looking for Europa League salvation with Arsenal

Unai Emery has chance to relieve some of pressure surrounding his position at Arsenal on Thursday by securing qualification for kckout rounds of Europa League with a match to spare. Speculation over Emery's job has ramped up after his Gunners side were booed off at end of ir 2-2 draw with lowly Southampton at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, gained only thanks to a 96th-minute leveller from Alexandre Lacazette. However, he can remove some of gloom hovering over rth London by booking ir place in last 32 with a win over Eintracht Frankfurt.

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Group F leaders Arsenal are four points ahead of both third-placed Eintracht and Standard Liege with two matches remaining, and will also qualify if Standard don't win at bottom side Vitoria Guimaraes. Emery was publicly backed by Arsenal hierarchy at start of international break but pressure has continued to grow following a run of just two wins in ir last 11 Premier League games, with bookmakers in United Kingdom placing him among favourites to be next manr ousted. Spaniard said he was "disappointed and frustrated" after draw, which denied Saints a first win at Arsenal since 1997.

"I understand supporters, we didn't deserve any more today, we lost a big opportunity to connect with our supporters," he said.

"We had chance to take confidence from today but we didn't do that." 

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Faltering Frankfurt

y face an Eintracht side that have lost ir last three in all competitions and come into Thursday's clash in London having lost at home to Wolfsburg despite ir opponents having to play entire second half with 10 men. However, y will have ir captain David Abraham available for a match that could be crucial to European hopes of last season's semi-finalists after he was banned until 2020 in Bundesliga for barging over Freiburg coach Christian Streich earlier this month. Seen as potential candidates to challenge for trophy at start of season, Serie A rivals Roma and Lazio are both fighting for survival in competition, with Roma out if y lose at Group J leaders Istanbul Basaksehir and Borussia Moenchengladbach win at Austrian outfit Wolfsberg.

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That would also send Bundesliga leaders Moenchengladbach through to last 32. Lazio, who are third in Group E, must beat CFR Cluj at Stadio Olimpico to have any hope of staying in competition, as y are six points behind Romanians after suffering two late defeats by group leaders Celtic in ir previous two matches. Celtic have already qualified thanks to those two wins over Lazio and y will be joined by local rivals Rangers if y win at Group G's bottom side Feyeord and Porto don't beat leaders Young Boys.

Steven Gerrard's side are second, level on seven points with Young Boys in a tight group that has all four sides separated by three points. Wolves are also on brink of kckouts in ir first European adventure for nearly four decades. Nu Espirito Santo's side need a draw at Group K leaders Braga to guarantee pass to last 32 -- although y will also go through if third-placed Slovan Bratislava fail to beat Besiktas -- and go into match having lost just once since falling 1-0 to Braga in mid-September. 

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