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Arsenal vs Ipswich Town: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

Arsenal vs Ipswich Town: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

  • Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 13 league games against Ipswich (W10 D3), since a 2-1 away defeat in September 1984.

  • Ipswich are winless in their last 11 away league games against Arsenal (D4 L7) and have lost their last four in a row. Their last such victory was in August 1979 (2-0 under Bobby Robson).

  • Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 41 Premier League home games against promoted teams (W36 D5) and have won their last 12 in a row. Only Chelsea (43 between 2001 and 2015) have had a longer streak of this kind in the history of the competition.

  • Arsenal have won their last league game in three of the last four calendar years, with the exception of a 2-1 defeat at Fulham on New Year’s Eve last year. This is the first time since 2019 that the final league game of a year will be played at home, a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in Mikel Arteta’s first game as manager at the Emirates.

  • Arsenal have scored more than 5 goals in seven different Premier League games in 2024 – the last team to do this in more top-flight games in a single calendar year was Burnley (9 in 1960), while the Gunners did so last in 1931 (8).

  • Arsenal are unbeaten in their last eleven Premier League home games (W8 D3) and are the only team not to suffer a home defeat so far this season (W5 D3). The Gunners are looking to keep four straight home clean sheets in the league for the first time since November/December 2021.

  • Ipswich have won two of their last three away games in the Premier League, having previously gone winless in 12 away games in the top flight. However, the Tractor Boys have remained winless in their last 17 Premier League games against teams in the top four of the table since a 1-0 win against Liverpool at Anfield in January 1995 (D3 L14).

  • Arsenal have had more different goalscorers than any other team in the Premier League this season (14), with Gabriel Jesus and Declan Rice scoring their first goals of the season against Crystal Palace last time out.

  • Only in Manchester City’s Premier League games were more goals scored in the first 15 minutes (13 – F6, A7) than in Ipswich (12 – F5, A7).

  • Gabriel Jesus has scored five goals in his last two games for Arsenal in all competitions, as many as his previous 45. No player has scored multiple goals in three consecutive appearances for the Gunners (all competitions) in the Premier League era.

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