ARSENAL VS LEICESTER PREVIEW

ARSENAL VS LEICESTER PREVIEW

 

Arsenal vs. Leicester will be playing in what promises to be an intense match on Sunday. While Arsenal intends extending their winning streak, Leicester is hoping to register their first win of the season.

Head to Head Records: The last time Leicester won an away game against Arsenal was far back in 1973 winning 0-2. However, since then, Arsenal as gone ahead to win 20 of the last 27 encounters between the two sides with the other 7 ending in draws. Leicester is the only premiership team to have gone the longest streak without winning arsenal.

Arsenal: The gunners are presently enjoying a rich vein of form. They are unbeaten in the last 11 games with 9 wins and 2 draws. Before this game, arsenal has lost only 3 games between July 2019 and now with the loss coming against Leicester.

The month of October for arsenal is a good period to hunt has they have not lost the past 32 premier league games in the month. There last loss coming against Blackburn 1-2 in 2002. Only Manchester United and Chelsea football team has a better run 42 and 33 respectively.

Defensively, Arsenal have one of the best records this season with just 6 goals conceded. Only Aston Villa has a better record. Although they have conceded in every premier league game this season till date.

In attack, the gunners have had 41 shots this season with 13 goal attempts coming from them. They have won all matches this season already.The most lethal striker for the gunners Aubameyang has gone the last Five games without scoring. The last time he went this long without scoring was on 2014.

 

Leicester: This season has been tough for the former league winners; they have lost the last two games they played. However, they can take consolation in their away from having won the last two games 8-2 on aggregate.

Leicester have had the best conversion ratio this season in the premier league. Netting 25% of shots made. However, they have failed to score in the last 15 attempts.

Arsenal has been a favorable opponent for Jamie Vardy. He has scored 10 goals against them more than any other premiership team. The only player with the better record is Wayne Rooney with 12 goals.