Arsenal vs Liverpool: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Against no team have Arsenal lost more Premier League games than against Liverpool (26, tied with Man Utd).
Liverpool are looking to complete the Premier League double against Arsenal for the eighth time, and the first since 2021-22. Their seven “doubles” already constitute the record ever achieved against the Gunners in the competition.
Arsenal have conceded in each of their last 20 Premier League matches against Liverpool since a 0-0 draw in August 2015. Only against Man Utd (30 between 1953 and 1968) and Tottenham (24 between 1955 and 1967) have they had a longer clean run in their league history.
This will be the first ever Premier League match between Arsenal and Liverpool on a Thursday, their last league meeting on Thursday having taken place at Anfield in December 1947 (3-1 victory for Arsenal). The Reds will be only the second team Arsenal face all seven days of the week in the Premier League after Southampton.
Arsenal have won their last seven Premier League home matches – only once under Mikel Arteta have they enjoyed a longer home league winning streak, winning 10 in a row between April and December 2022.
Only Burnley’s Premier League matches this season have seen more goals in the 90th minute or later (10) than Liverpool’s (9 – 5 for, 4 against). Only in 2023-24 (13), 2008-09 (12) and 2010-11 (10) have the Reds seen more goals for and against in the 90th minute in a Premier League season.
Arsenal have won their last two Premier League home matches against the reigning champions, beating Man City in 2023-24 and 2024-25. They last did so in three consecutive league seasons between 1961-62 and 1963-64, when they beat Spurs, Ipswich and Everton.
Bukayo Saka has scored in each of his last three Premier League home games against Liverpool – in the history of the league, no Arsenal player has ever scored in four consecutive home games against the Reds before.
Only Bruno Fernandes has been involved in more open sequences of play ending in a shot in the Premier League this season (116) than Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai (103), while, per 90 minutes, of players who have played more than 1,000 minutes, only Jérémy Doku (7.2) and Fernandes again (7.1) have been involved in more than Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka (6.4) in the competition this season.
Cody Gakpo has scored three away goals in the league this season, all in his last four league matches in London (goals at Chelsea, West Ham and Fulham); he had scored just four goals in his first 18 Premier League matches in the capital. Gakpo could become the second different Liverpool player to score in four different away matches in London during a Premier League season, after Mo Salah (twice – 2017-18 and 2020-21).