"They're both top managers and both desperate to win every game they are involved in," Stokes pointed out. "There are similarities in the way the pair of them want their teams to play. They demand they play the proper way.
"It's not surprising Roy Keane has brought with him that Manchester United ethos of how to play football because of all the time he spent at Old Trafford. It's similar to the way Arsenal play and he isn't likely to just say, `Let's stick a big man up front and just play off him'.
"You can see that every week because of the way we set out to play. The main thing he has tried to emphasis is he has brought in players he thinks will play the way he wants."