Leicester City vs Arsenal Matchday Stats Preview
Leicester have lost each of their last six Premier League games against Arsenal, having won four of their six against the Gunners before this run (D1 L1).
Arsenal have won their last three Premier League away games against Leicester, just one fewer than they managed across their first 14 visits to Filbert Street/King Power Stadium in the competition (W4 D6 L4).
Arsenal have won 21 of their last 25 Premier League matches against sides sitting in the relegation zone (D3 L1), with their only defeat in that spell coming away to 19th place Everton in February 2023 (0-1).
Leicester City have lost each of their last four Premier League home games without scoring – only Sheffield Wednesday in 1919-20, Birmingham City in 1921-22 and Norwich City in 2019-20 have ever lost five in a row on home turf to nil in the same top-flight campaign.
Arsenal are unbeaten in each of their last 14 Premier League games (W9 D5) and haven’t gone longer without suffering defeat in the competition since between December 2010 and April 2011 under Arsène Wenger (16 games).
Only Southampton (54) have conceded more Premier League goals this season than Leicester City (53), who haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last 17 league matches since beating Bournemouth 1-0 at the King Power Stadium in October.
Only Tottenham (17 starts, 1691 mins) and Southampton (14, 1257 mins) have handed more starts and more minutes to players aged 18 or younger than Arsenal (10, 835 mins) in the Premier League this season; seven of those starts have come for Myles Lewis-Skelly, the joint-most by a Gunners defender in the competition before turning 19 along with Gaël Clichy.
Since Ruud van Nistelrooy’s first game in charge of Leicester in December, only Southampton have lost more games (9) and won fewer points (4) than the Foxes (W2 D1 L8 – 7 points). The former Man Utd striker didn’t end on the losing side in any of his final seven league appearances against Arsenal as a player (W3 D4).
Leicester captain Jamie Vardy has scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal than he has vs any other opponent (11) and only Harry Kane (14) and Wayne Rooney (12) have netted more often against the Gunners in the competition.
Arsenal’s Kai Havertz has both scored and assisted in six different Premier League games since the start of last season, doing so last time out against Man City. Only Mo Salah, Cole Palmer and Ollie Watkins have done so more often during this period.
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