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Manchester United vs Arsenal

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Old Trafford

Date: 9th March 2025

Kick-off time – 16:30 GMT

Manchester United will be looking for some more positives this Sunday when they host Arsenal in the 28th round of the 2024/25 Premier League season.

This matchup was once the Premier League’s most competitive rivalry. However, both sides are currently far apart in the table, with Manchester United trailing the Gunners by a whopping 21 points heading into this tie.

After a 1-1 draw at Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday, the Red Devils will be fighting fatigue and the distraction of the upcoming return leg as they chase a first set of back-to-back Premier League wins this season. Achieving that against Arsenal looks difficult as the hosts have lost each of the last four Premier League H2Hs, with United’s longest losing streak against Arsenal in their league history.

Ruben Amorim’s men prevailed the last time these sides met in the FA Cup in January. However, winning a 100th H2H here will require a rare home league win for the Red Devils who have won just two of their last seven such matches at Old Trafford (L5).

Meanwhile, Arsenal, who beat United 1-0 on this ground last season, arrive in confident mood as they chase successive H2H league wins on this ground for the first time since February 1979.

Having failed to score in their last two Premier League games (D1, L1), the Gunners became the first team in the history of the Champions League to score seven goals in an away knockout stage match as they thrashed PSV 7-1 on Tuesday.

Mikel Arteta will hope his side can perform at that level again on Sunday in what will be his 200th Premier League game here. Interestingly, only four managers in competition history have bettered his 118 wins in their first 200 games. Seven of those came against Manchester United (D1, L2), with the Spaniard boasting the best win rate of any manager to face the Red Devils at least five times in the competition (70%).

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

April 1, 2025
Arsenal 18:45 Fulham
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:45 West Ham United
Nottingham Forest 19:00 Manchester United
April 2, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 18:45 Ipswich Town
Brighton & Hov… 18:45 Aston Villa
Manchester City 18:45 Leicester City
Newcastle United 18:45 Brentford
Southampton 18:45 Crystal Palace
Liverpool 19:00 Everton
April 3, 2025
Chelsea 19:00 Tottenham Hotspur
April 5, 2025
Everton 11:30 Arsenal
West Ham United 14:00 AFC Bournemouth
Ipswich Town 14:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Crystal Palace 14:00 Brighton & Hov…
Aston Villa 16:30 Nottingham Forest
April 6, 2025
Brentford 13:00 Chelsea
Fulham 13:00 Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur 13:00 Southampton
Manchester United 15:30 Manchester City
April 7, 2025
Leicester City 19:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 29 21 7 1 69 27 +42 70
2 Arsenal 29 16 10 3 53 24 +29 58
3 Nottingham Forest 29 16 6 7 49 35 +14 54
4 Chelsea 29 14 7 8 53 37 +16 49
5 Manchester City 29 14 6 9 55 40 +15 48
6 Newcastle United 28 14 5 9 47 38 +9 47
7 Brighton & Hov… 29 12 11 6 48 42 +6 47
8 Fulham 29 12 9 8 43 38 +5 45
9 Aston Villa 29 12 9 8 41 45 -4 45
10 AFC Bournemouth 29 12 8 9 48 36 +12 44
11 Brentford 29 12 5 12 50 45 +5 41
12 Crystal Palace 28 10 9 9 36 33 +3 39
13 Manchester United 29 10 7 12 37 40 -3 37
14 Tottenham Hotspur 29 10 4 15 55 43 +12 34
15 Everton 29 7 13 9 32 36 -4 34
16 West Ham United 29 9 7 13 33 49 -16 34
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 29 7 5 17 40 58 -18 26
18 Ipswich Town 29 3 8 18 28 62 -34 17
19 Leicester City 29 4 5 20 25 65 -40 17
20 Southampton 29 2 3 24 21 70 -49 9

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