Man City vs Arsenal Head-to-Head Stats Unearth a Nine Year Trend The Gunners Must Overcome

Sunday sees the big Premier League offering on Gameweek 5 as last season’s champions and runners-up do battle at the Etihad Stadium. As the build-up continues, there are plenty of key Man City vs Arsenal head-to-head stats to take into the game too – including a nine year trend that the Gunners must overcome.

Man City vs Arsenal Head-to-Head Stats For Sunday’s North London Derby

Listed here are our key Man City vs Arsenal head-to-head stats to take into this weekend’s clear highlight on Sunday (22nd Sept).

This will be the 193rd time these heavyweights have played in the football league.

What Time Does Man City vs Arsenal Kick-off And How To Watch?

📅Date: Sunday 22nd September 2024
⌚Time: 4:30pm
⚽️Venue: Etihad Stadium
📺 TV: Sky Sports

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Last Season’s Repeat Fixture Ended In A Cagey 0-0 Draw

If you wanted goals in last year’s Man City vs Arsenal clash, then you would have been very disappointed – with the game ending in a cagey 0-0 stalemate.

That point for City, however, was enough to help them win their fourth Premier League title on the spin, despite also dropping three points to Arsenal earlier in the season at the Emirates – losing 1-0.

Meaning Arsenal fans will take a big positive into Sunday’s monster clash – having taken four points off City last season and also beating them on penalties in the 2023 Community Shield.

In fact, City supporters won’t need us reminding them, they’ve actually only scored one goal in their last three versus Arsenal.

All this might suggest Mikel Arteta has sussed out the City forward tactics – we’ll see again on Sunday.

City Have Won 12 Of Their Last 14 League Games vs Arsenal

With home advantage the best football betting sites in the UK will have Man City as the favourites to get all three points here and this is also backed up with the fact, they’ve won a massive 12 of their last 14 league games vs Arsenal.

Arsenal Last Beat Man City Away In The League in 2015

You also have to hunt back through the past Man City vs Arsenal head-to-head stats to 2015 to find the last time the Gunners won away at the Blue Moon.

This is a run of nine games played at the Etihad with no win for the Gunners with seven wins and a drawn for Manchester City.

The Arsenal scorers in their last win away at City were Santi Cazorla with a penalty and Olivier Giroud.

68% Of The Last 22 League Meetings Saw 3+ Goals Scored

Next up is to look at the goals stats when the sides meet.

The recent meetings – well the last 22 – indicate a mixed bag really.

Yes, overall, we’ve seen 15 of the those 22 games produce 3+ total match goals, but all three meetings last season went Under 2.5 Goals with just three goals in total scored over the 270 minutes played.

City Have A Habit Of Scoring Two Or More Goals When Facing Arsenal

So, we know – barring last season – that City have the upper hand over Arsenal, when going back over further.

We can also see that City have a decent return of scoring 2+ goals when facing Arsenal. Which is something they’ve done in 13 of their last 17 (76%).

However, as mentioned, a small word of caution here as Arsenal did turn this stat on it’s head last season. Only conceding one goal to City last term.

BTTS (No) Has Happened 12 Times In The Last 18 Meetings

Another popular goal scoring wager is the ‘both teams to score’ (or not) one and if you like this option it might pay to note that 12 of the last 18 Man City vs Arsenal head-to-heads DIDN’T see both sides scoring.

There Has Been Six Draws In The Last 28 Head-to-Heads

Finally – what about the draw stats.

In a game like this, with two Premier League heavyweights there will be a lot of pundits just playing it safe and opting for the stalemate.

To be honest, you can’t blame them.

However, there has only been six draws between City and Arsenal in the last 28, which equates to a fair 21% return. But on the reverse, this also means 79% of those meeting have seen a winner.