Mikel Arteta insists he cannot simply "copy and paste" the philosophy of Pep Guardiola onto his Arsenal side.
The Gunners head coach Arteta will return to former club Manchester City for the first time on Wednesday night.
The 37-year-old left the Etihad Stadium, where he was employed as Guardiola's assistant, in December to replace Unai Emery in the Arsenal hot-seat.
Signs of improvement have slowly surfaced and, following Saturday's 1-0 win over West Ham, Arsenal currently boast the longest current unbeaten Premier League run.
But Arteta knows his former colleagues well enough to expect a backlash when he takes Arsenal there.
"They will respond for sure," he said.
"They are a team that is so used to winning and after every defeat they reacted straight away, that is what I'm saying – we have to be at our best.
"We need to forget about the things they do right, we know how capable they are, the amount of different situations they can put you in on the pitch so we have to focus on our own things and try to do them as well as possible."
