Liverpool travel to Arsenal for Thursday night’s Premier League clash. We crunch the numbers ahead of the big game…
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 first since 2021-22, after winning 1-0 at Anfield in August. Their seven ‘doubles’ is already the most any side has against the Gunners in the competition.
Arsenal have conceded in each of their last 20 Premier League games against Liverpool since a 0-0 draw in August 2015. Only against Man Utd (30 between 1953 and 1968) and Tottenham (24 between 1955 and 1967) have they had a longer run without a clean sheet in their league history.
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.
Only Burnley’s Premier League matches this season have seen more goals in the 90th minute or later (10) than Liverpool’s (9 – 5 for, 4 against). Only in 2023-24 (13), 2008-09 (12), and 2010-11 (10) have the Reds seen more 90th minute goals for and against in a Premier League season.
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.
Only Bruno Fernandes has been involved in more open play sequences ending in a shot in the Premier League this season (116) than Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai (103).
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).
