Premier League LIVE: Newcastle United vs Arsenal – score, stats, radio commentary & live text updates
Newcastle United has won each of its last three home games against Arsenal in all competitions without conceding a single goal, when they won four games in a row for the Gunners last time in August 1969.
Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal has lost more games in Manchester City in all competitions (5) that they are not absent from Newcastle United (4).
Newcastle has kept four clean leaves in their five Premier League games this season, conceding only in their 3-2 defeat against Liverpool. However, the Magpies have also managed to score in three of their five championship games so far.
Newcastle only won one of its last seven-seven-league games (D3 L3), a race that started with a 1-0 defeat against Arsenal. They failed to score in five of these seven games, as many times as they did in their 41 previous championship games.
Arsenal has lost only one of their last 16 Premier League games outside (W8 D7), although this was released the last time in Liverpool. Only twice since May 2022, the Gunners have lost consecutive games on the road championship, the second defeat of the two times in Newcastle (May 2022 and November 2024).
Newcastle faced less shots (37) and has a lower XG against (2.6) than any other part of the Premier League this season. However, at the other end, only Aston Villa (1.9%) has a lower shooting conversion rate than Magpies (5.6%).
Only David Brooks (11) had more shots without scoring than Anthony Gordon from Newcastle (10) in the Premier League this season, also one of the five players to record more than 1.0 xg without a net (1.1).
No player has applied more pressures in the last third (202) or in the opposition penalty zone (85) so far this season than Viktor Gyökeres of Arsenal.
The next goal of Harvey Barnes will be his 50th in the Premier League (35 for Leicester, 14 for Newcastle). However, Barnes faced Arsenal more often without scoring than any other opponent in High Vol (12).
With 54 goals and 45 assists, Bukayo Saka is a goal to become the eighth player to reach 100 for the Premier League Arsenal. Aged 24 and 23 days on the day of this match, he would be the second youngest to reach this stage for the Gunners after Cesc FÃ gas in 2010 (23 years 237D).