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Arsenal has won two of its last four championship meetings with Manchester City (D2), as much as their previous 22 (D5 L15). The Gunners could win consecutive matches from the League against citizens for the first time since December 2015.
Manchester City has lost its last two premier visits to Arsenal, as much as their previous 14 (W7 D5 L2). It is their longest losing race against the Gunners since April 2009 (4 consequences).
Arsenal has won its last three home games in the Premier League by a global score of 9-0. They won four games in a row for the last time without conceding in December 2021, when they won their first three at home in one season without conceding in 1960-61.
Manchester City has lost five of his last first League games immediately after a mid-week European match (W2), including a 5-1 defeat in Arsenal in February. Their five previous defeats of these previous ones occurred over a period of 46 games in five years (W27 D14).
Only Bournemouth (9) had more direct attacks than atrsenal in the Premier League this season (8, an average of 2 per game). Last season, the Gunners ranked 11th for direct attacks (1.7 per game).
With Man City without victory in four Premier League games against Arsenal, Pep Guardiola could make five games without victory from the top league against an opponent for the very first time. Mikel Arteta could also become the first manager to have taken five unbeaten championship games against Guardiola.
Erling Haaland of Man City scored four goals in six premier League matches against Arsenal, while he has 19 goals in 20 league games in London. Among the players to play more than 1,000 minutes in the Premier League games outside in the capital, Haaland has the best goal ratio (one every 93 minutes).
Viktor Gyökeres scored during his two home games in the Premier League for Arsenal (3 goals in total). The only player to score in each of his first three for the competition club was Alexandre Lacazette in 2017.
Arsenal striker Viktor Gyökeres applied more pressure in the last third than any other player in the Premier League this season (166). Meanwhile, Erling Haaland # 9 from Man City applied more pressures in the opponent’s penalty area than anyone (65).
Gianluigi Donnarumma made two stops and kept a white leaf during his first league beginnings during the 3-0 victory of Man City against Man Utd last weekend. The only guards to record a white sheet in their first two departures for citizens are Kasper Schmeichel (August 2007) and Stefan Ortega (May 2023).