League leaders Arsenal welcome reigning champions Liverpool to the Emirates on Thursday night for a Premier League blockbuster fixture.
Arsenal secured a 3-2 comeback victory at Bournemouth last time out.
While Liverpool fell to a heartbreaking late 2-2 stalemate at Fulham in their last outing courtesy of Harrison Reed’s bullet strike.
**Match preview**
Against no side have Arsenal lost more Premier League games than they have against Liverpool (26, level with Man Utd).
Liverpool are looking to complete the Premier League double over Arsenal for the eighth time and the first time since 2021/22. Their seven ‘doubles’ is already the most any side has against the Gunners in the competition.
The Gunners have conceded in each of their last 20 Premier League games against Liverpool since a 0-0 draw in August 2015.
This will be the first ever Premier League game between Arsenal and Liverpool on a Thursday, with their last Thursday league meeting coming at Anfield in December 1947 (3-1 win for Arsenal). The Reds will be just the second team Arsenal have faced on all seven days of the week in the Premier League, after Southampton.
Arsenal have won their last seven home Premier League matches; only once under Mikel Arteta have they had a longer home league winning run, winning 10 consecutively between April and December 2022.
Mikel Arteta’s side have won their last two home Premier League matches against the reigning champions, beating Man City in both 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 their league history, no Arsenal player has ever scored in four consecutive home games against the Reds before.
Cody Gakpo has scored three away league goals this season, all of which have come in his last four league appearances in London (goals at Chelsea, West Ham, and Fulham); he had only scored four goals in his first 18 Premier League games in the capital before this. Gakpo could become the second different Liverpool player to score in four different away matches in London in a Premier League season, after Mo Salah (twice – 2017/18 and 2020/21).
**Team news**
**Arsenal**
Riccardo Calafiori, Max Dowman and Cristhian Mosquera are unavailable with injuries.
While Kai Havertz remains a doubt after he was omitted from the squad that faced Bournemouth for load management reasons.
**Liverpool**
Alexander Isak, Giovanni Leoni and Wataru Endo are sidelined with injuries, while Hugo Ekitike is still recovering from a muscular issue.
Mohamed Salah is away on international duty with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations.
**Predicted line-ups**
**Arsenal**: David Raya, Jurriën Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhães, Piero Hincapié, Martin Ødegaard, Martín Zubimendi, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Viktor Gyökeres.
**Liverpool**: Alisson Becker, Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Florian Wirtz, Curtis Jones, Cody Gakpo.