Arsenal vs Sunderland: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 18 home league matches against Sunderland (W13 D5) since a 2-1 defeat at Highbury in November 1983.
Sunderland have won just one of their last 28 Premier League matches against Arsenal (D10 L17), a 1-0 home victory in November 2009.
Sunderland have never won in 16 Premier League away matches against Arsenal (D5, L11), only going to Liverpool winless more often in the competition (17).
Arsenal lost 3-2 to Man Utd in their last home league game, the last consecutive defeat at the Emirates in April 2022. However, the Gunners are unbeaten in their last 43 home games against promoted sides (38 wins, 5 draws), the longest joint run in Premier League history (Chelsea also 43 between 2001 and 2015).
Sunderland are winless in their last seven Premier League away matches (D3 L4) since a 2-1 victory at Chelsea in October. No promoted team has ever won at Arsenal and Chelsea in a Premier League campaign before.
Sunderland have faced the third most shots in the Premier League this season (337), but have conceded the third fewest goals (26). Their ratio of goals conceded to shots received (7.7%) is the lowest in a single campaign since Liverpool in 2018-19 (7.2%).
Arsenal have scored more goals from corners than any other team in the Premier League this season (14), with the Gunners just two goals behind the most goals from corners in a single campaign (16 by Oldham in 1992-93, West Brom in 2016-17 and Arsenal themselves in 2023-24).
Four of Viktor Gyökeres’ six Premier League goals for Arsenal this season have come against promoted sides (3 v Leeds, 1 v Burnley). These four goals came from just six shots (67% conversion rate), compared to just two goals from 29 shots against everyone else (7% conversion rate).
Dan Ballard and Brian Brobbey scored for Sunderland in their 2-2 draw against Arsenal in the reverse fixture. The last player to score home and away against the Gunners for the Black Cats in the same Championship season was Tommy Wright in 1953-54.
Sunderland’s Robin Roefs has made the third most saves (76), has the second highest save percentage (74.3%) and the fifth most clean sheets (8) of any goalkeeper in the Premier League this season. The last time a goalkeeper kept more clean sheets for a promoted team was in 2020-21 (Illan Meslier 11, Alphonse Areola 9).