Arsenal vs Wolverhampton Wanderers

Emirates Stadium is the venue as Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers go head-to-head in a top-half Premier League showdown.

Since losing 2-1 to Manchester City on New Year’s Day, Arsenal have gone unbeaten in their last three Premier League games in a row (W2, D1), including a 1-0 win at Wolverhampton a fortnight ago. The ‘Gunners’ have enjoyed themselves against Wolves lately, going unbeaten in nine of their last ten league H2Hs (W5, D4), though their solitary reverse in this run came in this exact fixture in 2020/21. The Londoners now face the prospect of losing back-to-back home league meetings with Wolves for the first time since 2010/11. However, Mikel Arteta’s men are having a great time in the Premier League, as they’ve only lost one of their last eight top-flight matches (W6, D1), keeping five clean sheets in the process.

Meanwhile, Wolverhampton eked out a 2-1 home win over Leicester City at the weekend, making it five triumphs from six Premier League outings (L1). Additionally, Wolves have won each of their last four away league games by an aggregate score of 6-1, as they look to win five such fixtures in a row in England’s top-flight for the first time since April 1980. Yet, Wolverhampton’s scoring issues have seen them net just 23 Premier League goals so far, fewer than any other side starting this matchday in the upper half of the table. But while they’ve bagged an average of 1.08 goals per away league game, Bruno Lage’s men have been virtually unpenetrable at the back, conceding just 0.5 goals per top-flight trip on average to date.