Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hopes he can forge an even greater partnership with Alexandre Lacazette this season.

Aubameyang and Lacazette started together for the 13th Premier League game this campaign in the 2-0 win over Chelsea.

The Gunners have now won eight times when the pair both start, drawing four games and losing just once.

And Aubameyang has implored Unai Emery to make it a more regular occurrence.

“It was really nice,” said Aubameyang.

“I think we did a lot of runs, a lot of efforts for the team, we worked a lot and of course we are happy when we play together because we have such a good feeling between us. It was cool.”

Asked whether he would prefer to continue playing alongside his “brother”, Aubameyang added: “Why not?

“Sincerely, I hope so because when you have a striker like Alex near to you then he’s really good to play with. I hope we will play more games together.

“Since I joined Arsenal he was here and he came to me and talked to me and now we are going well, we have the same vision about football and I love him! He’s a great guy.

“It is nice between us, it’s not a bad rivalry, we are friends. When one is going well the other is happy and that’s the most important thing, to do well.

“I can do a bit more. I hope I will. I try to. I hope I will do it.

“This win was very important. We knew that it was important to get a result. It’s a very good win for us because now we are only three points from Chelsea. We’re not far. We will try to keep the distance very low.

“This gives us a lot of confidence that we can finish the season well.”