For Arsenal it will be a chance to bounce back from their first defeat of the season, but for Leeds United Saturday's game at Ashburton Grove is a good opportunity to gauge where they are with their own "title" ambitions.
Just as former Gunners manager Arsene Wenger saw qualifying for the Champions League as a trophy, so Daniel Farke views consolidating Leeds in the top flight as a title.
Arsenal and Manchester City were the only clubs to beat Leeds home and away last season, and whilst the City results were tight, the Gunners won by an aggregate 9-0.
"Arsenal last season was more or less the only team where we had no chance to win one of the games, we were not even close," said Leeds manager Farke. "It's a good chance to see if we have edged a bit closer and are competitive in such a game.
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FOCUS: Leeds United manager Daniel Farke (Image: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
"I would say we definitely have improved because it's not coincidence that in the last ten or 11 months we are the fifth best team in the Premier League in terms of points. We are unbeaten after a really impressive start in the Premier League.
"But we are the underdog, especially after a little warning in the last game for them (which Brighton and Hove Albion won 3-0).
"We have to be at our very best to be competitive, and then we see how far we've come."
Farke says Leeds have learnt from the way Brighton beat Arsenal, but are not being lulled into a false sense of security by it.
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GUNNED DOWN: Viktor Gyoekeres celebrates scoring the third goal in Arsenal's 5-0 home win over Leeds United last season (Image: Julian Finney/Getty Images)
"When you analyse the teams who are just trying to park the bus and sit back against Arsenal, at some point Arsenal score,” he warned.
"The winger beats someone in the wide position one against one perhaps and assists a goal, or they create a shooting position out of the centre, or when 27 crosses are coming into the box and they always have a good coverage of the box out of coincidence the ball goes in, or they create too many set-pieces.
"Brighton tried to press them, to make sure they stayed as far as possible away from their goal. We are also a really good pressing side.
"With all the praise for Brighton and Mikel (Arteta) was very critical about his team, they could have scored three or four goals and won.
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MODEL: Brighton and Hove Albion beat Arsenal with a pressing game last month (Image: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
"I didn't have the feeling that Brighton played them off the park.
"Sometimes you need a bit of luck in the right moment so they don't use their chances, or the right moment when you are clinical.
"If you run very naively into counter-attack after counter-attack, they have too much quality. But it's definitely never enough if you want to beat one of the top sides in world football just to somehow hope to survive wave after wave, defend 47 crosses into your box and head 127 balls away and defend 20 corners.
"We have to have spells when we keep possession far away from our goal and give our back row time to breathe and opportunities to our offensive players.
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NEW CONTRACT: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (Image: Oli SCARFF / AFP via Getty Images)
"We have reasons to be confident and brave.
"We have to be compact and rock solid once we defend deep because there will be periods where they will try to threaten our goal. We have to close the centre – it's crucial – but also make sure they don't create too many opportunities on the wings.
"If there is a set-piece situation we have to give our life to defend it. I don't expect we will create 20 one-against-one chances so if we have chances, we have to be effective."
When the sides met in north London last season, Arsenal were buoyed by the signing of Ebrechi Eze. This time a new four-year contract for Arteta and the threat of a points deduction for Manchester City, the only side who look capable of stopping their Premier League title defence, should lift the mood.
"It's the biggest task at the moment to play away at Arsenal," said Farke, who has never been on the winning side against them.
"They are objectively one of the best teams, if not the best, in Europe. And if you're one of the best teams in Europe, then you're automatically one of the best teams in the world.
"They won the best league in the world and fully deserved to last season. They ended runner-up three times before. They were in the Champions League final (in May).
"They are the big favourite to win the title this season, and they were flawless before the Brighton game.
"(They have an) unbelievable record at home, and quite often it's not that easy after a game where they were perhaps not at their very best, because they're even more on it.
"We travel respectful but not with fear."
Such is Arsenal's class that failure to win either the Premier League or European Cup this season will be seen as failure, but in their second season back in the top flight, Leeds are rightly judged rather differently.
"This is more or less our title race, to establish this club again in the best league in the world, and we're on a good path," declared Farke.
"I want to establish this club back in the top flight, to make sure we play two solid seasons at Premier League level for the first time in more than 25 years.
"This my only focus and more or less our title race."