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Arsenal vs Manchester United

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Emirates Stadium

Date: 4th December 2024

Kick-off time – 20:15 GMT

Arsenal will look to continue their brilliant run of form when they welcome Manchester United to the Emirates on Wednesday.

Since returning from the November international break, the Gunners have been in solid form, winning three games consecutively, including a 5-2 win over West Ham in their last outing. That game was the second consecutive time they have scored 5+ goals in a game, underlining the fact that Mikel Arteta’s side may be truly back to form.

The hosts enter this tie in second place, nine points behind Liverpool and two ahead of Premier League defending champions Manchester City. Unbeaten in 12 outings at the Emirates (W10, D2), they return home with history on their minds as they look to hang onto Liverpool’s heels in the title race.

That’s because the Gunners are chasing a fourth consecutive league H2H victory over United for the first time in their history. They could also become the first side since themselves in the 1970s to net 3+ goals in four successive home league meetings with the Red Devils.

Meanwhile, Manchester United will travel to the capital in a buoyant mood after a strong start to Ruben Amorim’s tenure (W2, D1), capped off by an emphatic 4-0 win over Everton on Sunday. While the new United coach stressed that performance was “far from perfect”, the fact that it represents United’s biggest league win since August 2021 suggests he’s got the club moving in the right direction.

Overall, the Red Devils have lost just one of their last 12 matches in all competitions (W6, D5). However, they need better improvements on the road as they have won just once away from home this season–against Southampton, going winless in all six subsequent away matches (D5, L1) since then. That poor away record and the fact that they have lost seven of their last nine league trips to Arsenal (W1, D1), including each of the last three suggests that correcting that form here will be a tall order.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

April 7, 2025
Leicester City 20:00 Newcastle United
April 12, 2025
Manchester City 12:30 Crystal Palace
Brighton & Hov… 15:00 Leicester City
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Everton
Southampton 15:00 Aston Villa
Arsenal 17:30 Brentford
April 13, 2025
Chelsea 14:00 Ipswich Town
Liverpool 14:00 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:30 Manchester United
April 14, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 20:00 Fulham
April 16, 2025
Newcastle United 19:30 Crystal Palace
April 19, 2025
Brentford 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Crystal Palace 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Everton 15:00 Manchester City
West Ham United 15:00 Southampton
Aston Villa 17:30 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 31 22 7 2 72 30 +42 73
2 Arsenal 31 17 11 3 56 26 +30 62
3 Nottingham Forest 31 17 6 8 51 37 +14 57
4 Chelsea 31 15 8 8 54 37 +17 53
5 Manchester City 31 15 7 9 57 40 +17 52
6 Aston Villa 31 14 9 8 46 46 +0 51
7 Newcastle United 29 15 5 9 49 39 +10 50
8 Fulham 31 13 9 9 47 42 +5 48
9 Brighton & Hov… 31 12 11 8 49 47 +2 47
10 AFC Bournemouth 31 12 9 10 51 40 +11 45
11 Crystal Palace 30 11 10 9 39 35 +4 43
12 Brentford 31 12 6 13 51 47 +4 42
13 Manchester United 31 10 8 13 37 41 -4 38
14 Tottenham Hotspur 31 11 4 16 58 45 +13 37
15 Everton 31 7 14 10 33 38 -5 35
16 West Ham United 31 9 8 14 35 52 -17 35
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 31 9 5 17 43 59 -16 32
18 Ipswich Town 31 4 8 19 31 65 -34 20
19 Leicester City 30 4 5 21 25 67 -42 17
20 Southampton 31 2 4 25 23 74 -51 10

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