Wrote:
Louay Muhammed
Sunday 4 September 2022
01:01 PM
Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta seeks to equalize Unai Emery’s winning streak, when the Gunners visit rivals Manchester United on Sunday in the English Premier League.
Arsenal will play Manchester United at Old Trafford at the end of the sixth round of the competition, at 5:30 pm.
Arsenal is at the top of the English Premier League standings with 15 points from 5 victories with the full score, as the team guarantees to finish the sixth round in the lead regardless of the outcome of today’s match.
On the other hand, Manchester United is in a period of recovery following the team achieved 3 consecutive victories, following it had opened the season with two losses.
Manchester United is in eighth place with 9 points, and if it wins, it will rise to fourth place.
Here are the top 10 facts ahead of the Manchester United and Arsenal summit:
– Manchester United beat Arsenal only once in the last 8 matches between the two teams, while the Gunners defeated their rival once at Old Trafford in the last 15 games, and that was in November 2020.
Arsenal have lost 17 times away to Manchester United in the Premier League, more than any other team.
– Manchester United have been cleaned once in their last 16 matches once morest Arsenal in the Premier League, which was in January 2021.
Manchester United is seeking 4 consecutive wins in the English Premier League for the first time since April 2021.
– Cristiano Ronaldo scored 698 goals with clubs in all competitions throughout his career, which means that he needs two goals to reach the 700 number, knowing that he scored 7 goals in the last 8 confrontations once morest Arsenal.
Marcus Rashford has failed to score once morest Arsenal in 13 matches in all competitions, since he scored two goals once morest the Gunners in his first match for Manchester United in the Premier League in February 2016.
Arsenal won the first 5 matches of the English Premier League for the first time since the 2004-05 season, knowing that the last time they won in the first six matches dates back to the 1947-1948 season.
Arsenal seeks a clean sheet in its first 3 away matches in the Premier League for the second time in its history, following the 1995-1996 season.
Arsenal are seeking to win their first 3 away matches of the Premier League for the first time since the 2013-2014 season.
Mikel Arteta’s current six-game winning streak is the longest for an Arsenal manager since Unai Emery won 7 consecutive games in 2018.
