Arsenal have won each of their last four Premier League home games against Manchester United, the longest home winning run against them by any side in the competition. The last team to win five in a row in the league were West Brom between 1976 and 1980.
Manchester United are winless in their last six Premier League games against Arsenal (D1 L5) – they’ve never gone seven in a row without a win against the Gunners in their league history.
Arsenal are looking to complete their fifth Premier League double over Manchester United, after 1997-98, 2001-02, 2006-07 and 2023-24. They won 1-0 at Old Trafford in the reverse fixture but have only won both league meetings with the Red Devils without conceding in 1901-02 in the second tier.
Arsenal’s last two Premier League games have both finished 0-0, with West Ham in December 2015 the last team to have three consecutive goalless draws. Overall there have been 12 instances of a team drawing 0-0 in 3+ Premier League games in a row, with the Gunners responsible for three of those (4 in February 2009, 3 in September 1998, 4 in October 1993).
Since the departure of Ruben Amorim, Manchester United rank first in the Premier League for xG (4.81), shots attempted (41) and shots on target (17) and have the best xG differential (+4.12) and best shot difference (+27).
Arsenal haven’t faced a single shot on target in any of their last two Premier League matches, the fifth time this season they’ve stopped their opponents from having one. It’s the most times in a season a team has managed this since Chelsea in 2020-21 (5) and since 2003-04 only Man City in both 2017-18 and 2019-20 have done so more often in a season (6 in each).
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has won 67% of his 12 Premier League games against Manchester United (W8 D2 L2), the highest win rate of any manager to face them at least five times.
Michael Carrick’s first and only Premier League victory in his previous stint as Manchester United manager came against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal – a 3-2 win at Old Trafford in December 2021.
Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes has created the most chances in the Premier League this season (62), while he also has the most assists (9). He ranks first for chances created both in open play (40) and from set plays (22) and his current ratio of 3.4 chances created per 90 minutes is the best by a Man Utd player since Ryan Giggs in 2008-09 (3.7).
Arsenal have only conceded 90 goals in 118 Premier League games with William Saliba on the pitch, an average of one every 115 minutes. Among Gunners players to play 10,000 minutes in the competition, only Tony Adams (one every 118 minutes) has a better ratio.