Vitoria manager Ivo Vieira says Arsenal should not expect an easy game when they meet on Wednesday for their Europa League action.
The Primeira Liga team twice took the lead at the Emirates Stadium last month before a brace of Nicolas Pepe free-kicks ensured Arsenal kept their perfect start to Group F alive with a 3-2 win.
Unfancied Vitoria caused plenty of problems in London, scoring their first goals of the group stage and threatening to heap more pressure on under-fire Arsenal boss Unai Emery.
And Vieira has now warned anyone expecting a win for Arsenal to the reverse tie that it will be more difficult this time around.
“Our goal is to win. My expectation is that this game will be more difficult for the zeal that was created and for the expectation that we could have won and it did not happen,” he told reporters at his pre-match press conference.
“That has to give us a lot of balance to not be ‘thirsty’ for the win and allow Arsenal in transition to make the game complicated for us.”
Meanwhile, Bruno Duarte – the Vitoria forward who put the visitors in front for the second time a fortnight ago – insists they have to do better than simply ‘play well’ if they want to pull off the shock this time.
“It is not enough to play well to defeat a big opponent. We have to be as careful as possible. We cannot concede goals and we have to be prepared to score our own. Plenty of good work is being done to try and find the victory,” he said.