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Arsenal vs Ipswich Town

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Emirates Stadium

Date: 27th December 2024

Kick-off time – 20:15 GMT

Arsenal will look to keep pace with Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table when they welcome Ipswich to the Emirates Stadium on Friday night.

After dropping points against Everton, the Gunners bounced back in style last weekend beating Crystal Palace 5-1 away from home to keep themselves six points behind Liverpool having played a game more. As such, they come into this round of games sitting in third position.

With 16 of the 32 teams to top the table on Christmas Day ultimately winning the title, history would suggest that Mikel Arteta’s side now have no more than a 50% chance of overthrowing Liverpool at the top of the table.

Still, Arsenal know that being top at Christmas guarantees nothing in the title race as they themselves have been top at Christmas on four occasions without winning the title.

They will want to avoid losing further ground here. However, they will have to do so without influential forward Bukayo Saka, who was forced off with an injury in Arsenal’s last game.

Despite his absence, Arsenal will still fancy their chances of winning this game at home, where they’re unbeaten this season in all competitions (W10, D3) and haven’t lost in 41 Premier League games against newly promoted sides (W36, D5).

Meanwhile, Ipswich will be desperate to bounce back when they play Arsenal. The Tractor Boys have given a good account of themselves in the Premier League so far. But a 4-0 loss at home to Newcastle United at the weekend proved that Kieran McKenna’s side still have a lot to learn.

The visitors have been fairly decent on the road, though. They’ve averaged one point per game in Premier League away matches this season as opposed to just 0.44 at home—their 0.56 differential is the biggest in the league in favour of playing away.

The Tractor Boys have also won two of their last three away league games and one of them came not too far from here, a 2-1 win at Tottenham in mid-November. Naturally, travelling to Arsenal represents a completely different proposition, highlighted by their terrible record in away H2Hs since August 1979 (W0, D4, L7).

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

February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea
February 23, 2025
Newcastle United 15:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 17:30 Liverpool
February 25, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 20:30 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 20:30 Fulham
Chelsea 21:15 Southampton
February 26, 2025
Manchester United 20:30 Ipswich Town
Tottenham Hotspur 20:30 Manchester City
Nottingham Forest 20:30 Arsenal
Brentford 20:30 Everton
Liverpool 21:15 Newcastle United
February 27, 2025
West Ham United 21:00 Leicester City

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 26 18 7 1 62 26 +36 61
2 Arsenal 25 15 8 2 51 22 +29 53
3 Nottingham Forest 25 14 5 6 41 29 +12 47
4 Manchester City 25 13 5 7 52 35 +17 44
5 AFC Bournemouth 25 12 7 6 44 29 +15 43
6 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 47 34 +13 43
7 Newcastle United 25 12 5 8 42 33 +9 41
8 Fulham 25 10 9 6 38 33 +5 39
9 Aston Villa 26 10 9 7 37 40 -3 39
10 Brighton & Hov… 25 9 10 6 38 38 +0 37
11 Brentford 25 10 4 11 43 42 +1 34
12 Tottenham Hotspur 25 9 3 13 49 37 +12 30
13 Crystal Palace 25 7 9 9 29 32 -3 30
14 Everton 25 7 9 9 27 31 -4 30
15 Manchester United 25 8 5 12 28 35 -7 29
16 West Ham United 25 7 6 12 29 47 -18 27
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25 5 4 16 35 54 -19 19
18 Ipswich Town 25 3 8 14 23 50 -27 17
19 Leicester City 25 4 5 16 25 55 -30 17
20 Southampton 25 2 3 20 19 57 -38 9

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