Arsenal defender Laia Codina says fans will see a ‘brave team that wants to win’ in the WSL this Sunday lunchtime [Rebekah Wynkoop/SPP]

ARSENAL host rivals Manchester City on Sunday and head coach Jonas Eidevall cannot wait for fans to crank up the volume as his players begin to make the Emirates their home.

The Gunners smashed Women’s Super League attendance records last term as an average 52,029 fans roared them on at the stadium across their six league outings there.

Now considered the women’s side’s main ground, the Emirates will open its doors to eight of their WSL rivals this season, with Champions League games also pencilled in.

Ironically, Eidevall has revealed that in the days before they started playing regularly on this massive stage, their big concern was how to get messages across to the players amid the noise of the crowd.

But the 41-year-old Swede now admits that such concerns have given way to a desire to “get that stadium to explode”.

“The noise for me and the players as well, it becomes an addiction,” he told the Tribune at a special Barclays WSL season launch media day. “You seek the noise, you want to hear the stadium explode.

“There is not a greater feeling in the world, to just be here and present in that moment, and to feel that the whole of north London is really focused on that moment.

“So it’s one of those experiences you crave more and more and it becomes a really positive cycle, of trying to create that more and more with the supporters.”

Head coach Jonas Eidevall [Daniela Porcelli/SPP]

A first league title in five years is the target for Arsenal this season and defender Laia Codina says fans turning out to cheer them on against Manchester City this Sunday lunchtime can expect to see a “brave team that wants to win”.

“We will have to show to our fans that we are starting the season and the league with that hunger,” the 24-year-old Spaniard told the Tribune.

“We want to win this league and it starts with the first game at the Emirates. It couldn’t be better – I hope that we can give them a victory.”

Arsenal will, however, need to pick themselves up from a disappointing midweek Champions League loss in Gothenburg, hosts BK Hacken edging the first leg of their qualifier 1-0.

In contrast, Manchester City put on a five-star show on their visit to Paris FC, with the Gunners’ former hot-shot Vivianne Miedema scoring on her debut in a 5-0 win.

Miedema could well line up against her old team mates on Sunday, but Eidevall has bolstered his attacking options with the arrival of free-scoring Rosa Kafaji and Codina’s fellow World Cup winner, Mariona Caldentey.

And speaking ahead of his 67th league match as Arsenal head coach, Eidevall declared that nothing but a title tilt would do this season.

“The years that we’ve had here building, the expectation of what is a good season for us, it is to win the league, to be honest,” he said.

“We are past that point where we were coming away and saying, ‘Oh, we were two points off winning the league, maybe it was still a good season.’

“We are here to win, that is the expectation, the ambition. Is that easy? No, it’s not, it’s very challenging. Will there be more teams than us having that ambition? Of course there will be. But for us going forward and to measure what success is for us, success for us is winning. Period.”