📊 Form Guide

Arsenal

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Arsenal will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-2 Premier League success against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that game, Arsenal managed 54% possession and 24 shots on goal with 9 on target. For Arsenal, goals were scored by Leandro Trossard (45') and Martin Ødegaard (95'). Wolverhampton W. got 5 shots at goal with 3 on target.

An interesting characteristic of recent Arsenal games is the number of results with a nil in them.

From their prior six matches before this one, in 5 of them a wager on BTTS would've lost.

Coming into this meeting, Arsenal have not been beaten in the league by Chelsea in their previous 4 games.

Chelsea

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Manchester City in FA Cup competition, Chelsea and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Chelsea had 38% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. On the other side, Manchester City had 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Bernardo Silva (84') scored for Manchester City.

An offensively clinical Chelsea have managed to bag a plethora of goals over their last 6 clashes (18 to be precise). That works out as the ominous average of 3 goals scored per game for this period of time. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, however.

Their prior results show that Chelsea:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 12/05/2021 tells us that Arsenal have won 4 of these & Chelsea 1, with the number of drawn results being 1.

18 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 from The Gunners and 7 created by The Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The last league contest between these sides was Premier League match day 9 on 21/10/2023 when it ended Chelsea 2-2 Arsenal.

On that occasion, Chelsea had 43% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Cole Palmer (15') and Mykhaylo Mudryk (48').

Arsenal had 13 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Declan Rice (77') and Leandro Trossard (84') scored.

The referee was Chris Kavanagh.

ℹ️ Team News: Arsenal

The Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all ahead of this match with a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

It seems likely that The Gunners may well employ a 4-3-3 formation this time and select David Raya, Ben White, William Saliba, Gabriel, Jakub Kiwior, Martin Oedegaard, Jorginho, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli.

ℹ️ Team News: Chelsea

Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has some current player fitness concerns. Reece James (surgery), Levi Colwill (Toe injury), Cole Palmer (cold), Christopher Nkunku (Hamstring injury), Lesley Ugochukwu (Hamstring injury), Robert Sánchez (unknown injury), Wesley Fofana (Cruciate ligament tear) and Roméo Lavia (Hamstring injury) won’t be making appearances.

From our viewpoint, The Blues seem likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Djordje Petrovic, Axel Disasi, Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Marc Cucurella, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Noni Madueke, Conor Gallagher, Mykhaylo Mudryk and Nicolas Jackson.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Arsenal will most probably dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the other end, Chelsea may well struggle to find the back of the net although we do see them getting the chances to score, too.

We’re therefore anticipating a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Arsenal at the end of the match.

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Renata Leite, 18:01 23/04/2024