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Arsenal vs Sunderland preview
Sunderland’s fine Premier League season faces its toughest test yet as they face the league leaders at the Emirates.
A Nice home win Monday night’s win against Burnley lifted the Black Cats to eighth in the table, while Arsenal beat Chelsea in midweek to book a place in the League Cup final.
Mikel Arteta’s side have set their sights on bigger prizes, however, and went into the weekend six points clear of Manchester City at the top of the table.
A 22-year wait for a title never looked any closer to being over but the Gunners won’t find it easy on Saturday.
However, the Regis Le Bris side made an impressive return to their home form. And Sunderland have never won in 16 Premier League away games against Arsenal (D5 L11), only visiting Liverpool more times without a victory in the competition (17).
Arsenal vs Sunderland Team News
Arsenal lost midfielder Mikel Marino to a broken leg last week, while winger Bukayo Saka is a doubt with the hip injury that forced him out of action against Leeds.
Captain Martin Odegaard missed the cup win against Chelsea in midweek but should be fit to return, while Kai Havertz is back in action.
Sunderland are without their captain and former Gunner Granit Xhaka but are otherwise at full strength.
Arsenal vs Sunderland Line Up Predicted
Arsenal starting XI: Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Havertz, Zubimendi, Rice; Maduke, Jesus, Trossard
Sunderland starting XI: roof; Hume, Mukile, Ballard, Alderet, Renildo; Le Fee, Diarra, Sadiki, Talbi; Brobie
Arsenal vs Sunderland: TV Channel, Online Live Streams
The match starts at 15:00 GMT (10:00 ET / 07:00 PT) on Saturday. The game is not being shown live in the UK.
Arsenal vs Sunderland Stats
- Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 18 home league games against Sunderland (W13 D5) since losing 2-1 at Highbury in November 1983.
- A 3-2 defeat against Manchester United in their last home league game puts them in danger of losing back-to-back home runs for the first time since April 2022.
- The Gunners are unbeaten in their last 43 at home to promoted sides (W38 D5), the joint-longest run in Premier League history (Chelsea also achieved 43 between 2001 and 2015).
- They have scored more goals from corners than any other side in the Premier League this season (14) and are two shy of the most goals scored from corners in a single campaign (16 by Oldham in 1992/93, West Brom in 2016/17 and Arsenal in 2023/24).
- Four of Viktor Gyokares’ six Premier League goals for Arsenal this season have come against promoted sides (three v Leeds, one v Burnley).
- Four of those goals came from just six shots (67% conversion rate), compared to two goals from 29 shots against everyone else (7% conversion).
- Sunderland have won one of their last 28 Premier League games against Arsenal (D10 L17), a 1-0 home win in November 2009.
- The Black Cats have never won in 16 Premier League away games against Arsenal (D5 L11), only visiting Liverpool more often without a victory in the competition (17).
- None of their seven Premier League away games (D3 L4) have resulted in a win since a 2-1 win at Chelsea on 25 October.
- Both Arsenal and Chelsea have never won a Premier League campaign against a promoted side.
- They have faced the third-most shots in the Premier League this season (337) but conceded the joint-third fewest goals (26).
- Their goals to shots faced ratio (7.7%) is the lowest in a single campaign since Liverpool (7.2%) in 2018-19.
- Dan Ballard and Brian Broby were on target Sunderland in a 2-2 draw with them Armory In the reverse fixture. The last player to score a home and away goal for them against Arsenal in the same league season was Tommy Wright in 1953/54.
- Robin Rovers has the third-most saves (76), second-highest save percentage (74.3%) and joint-fifth most clean sheets (8). Premier League In this season
- The last time a goalkeeper kept more clean sheets for a promoted side was in 2020/21 (Ilan Meslier 11, Alphonse Arolla 9).
Arsenal vs Sunderland Prediction
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