Liverpool vs Arsenal: Wenger to unleash Lacazette-Alexis partnership

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has backed record signing Alexandre Lacazette, to have a similar impact at the Emirates as Luis Suarez did at Barcelona and he is excited to pair the forward with Alexis Sanchez.

The Gunners travel to face Liverpool on Sunday and Sanchez could return to the side, following his recovery from an abdominal injury.

That could mean he plays alongside club-record signing Lacazette for the first time.

“Their co-operation looks promising because there is no reason why, the two are good goal scorers, the two are good finishers, the two are good passers, the two have good assists,” Wenger said.

“I think that was the question we all had when Suarez went to Barcelona and they had already Neymar and Lionel Messi. I remember I had a conversation with Javier Mascherano before the season when Suarez moved over there.

“We both came to the conclusion if it works, it will be fantastic, but it can be as well a disaster because they can kill each other as well. But one of the qualities of Suarez is he manages to get the best out of people around him. He did that with Uruguay.

“He did that at Liverpool as well, you had Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling – they scored over 100 goals.

“That is a quality that is important and sometimes you cannot measure so much because you only look at the number of goals a guy has scored. But sometimes the way he can marry with people around him decides the quality of the team.”

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