Arteta: 'Strange and exciting' to play at Toffees' new home

ARSENAL manager Mikel Arteta says it will be “strange but very exciting” to be playing at his former club Everton's new home.

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The ex-Blues hero and his table-topping Gunners team will visit the Hill Dickinson Stadium for the first time tonight.

The match will coincide with Arteta’s sixth anniversary as Arsenal boss, having first joined the club as a player in 2011 after seven full seasons with the Blues.

And the Spaniard, who played under Everton manager David Moyes during his time in charge at Goodison Park, said: “It's strange, but very exciting as well.

“I think obviously one of the most iconic stadiums in the Premier League is no longer part of our schedule, but we're going to have the opportunity to win as well, the opportunity to win at an incredible stadium that they built, and Saturday night, you know what you expect.”