Emery believes Aubameyang is all set to challenge for the Golden Boot this term – whatever position the hitman is playing in

UNAI EMERY has challenged Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to win this season’s Premier League Golden Boot.

Aubameyang, 29, has emerged as the sharpest shooter in the league since his January arrival and is setting the pace in the race to be 2018/19’s top scorer.

The Gabon striker’s double against Tottenham made him the first player to reach the 10-goal mark in the league this season.

And since joining Arsenal from Borussia Dortmund for £56million, nobody has scored more than the deadly hitman’s 20 league goals.

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, last year’s 32-goal top scorer, is the only player to match the Gunners’ hotshot’s exploits in that time.

Even more impressively, Aubameyang (left) has the best minutes-to-goal ratio of all the league’s marksmen, having scored once every 104 minutes and with each of his last 10 shots on target.

Emery said: “I want him to continue improving and his challenge is also collective and individual.

“I want his challenge to be that he has the possibility to be the best scorer in the Premier League. We want to help him to achieve this and that is because, if he is scoring, he is helping us.”

Even playing a fair amount of time from the left hasn’t stopped Aubameyang (above) from netting goals and nor has coming off the bench. Seven of his 12 starts this season have been from the wing.

Ahead of tonight’s trip to Old Trafford, Emery said: “I want his best performance and also for the collective.

“In his career, he has played as a winger on the right, on the left and like a striker. He played with two strikers. I use him in every position for us.

“And sometimes his best performance is starting the match on the bench and then playing for 20 or 25 minutes. Now, in the last two matches, he has had a very big performance with working and scoring. I want to say to him and everyone, ‘Don’t stop, continue with this commitment every match, working like you did against Tottenham and Bournemouth’.

“And it is also important for him to take confidence from matches like Tottenham. Not only from scoring, but also because he is helping with the pressing against them and challenging well with the head against them.

“It is the moment to say to him, ‘Don’t stop’.”