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Matchday #1: ARSEnal vs. Leicester City

FRI, 11 AUG 2017 | 19:45 BST 

Venue: Emirates Stadium

Live stream: not yet

  • Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolasinac may make their league debuts for Arsenal, but Alexis Sanchez is ruled out with an abdominal strain.
  • Laurent Koscielny is banned, while Per Mertesacker, Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey are fitness doubts.
  • Leicester midfielders Danny Drinkwater and Vicente Iborra are unavailable because of muscle problems.
  • Defender Robert Huth is recovering from ankle surgery and is set to be replaced by summer signing Harry Maguire.

 

Head-to-head

  • Leicester are winless in 21 top-flight games against Arsenal, losing 14 of those matches.
  • Their only victory came in the first Premier League encounter - a 2-1 win at Filbert Street on 23 November 1994.
  • Arsenal have won 10 successive Premier League home games against Leicester - their longest winning streak at home against a particular opponent.
  • The Foxes' last away win against the Gunners came in a top-flight match in September 1973, when Len Glover and Mike Stringfellow scored in a 2-0 victory.
  • 44 years since Leicester's last win away to Arsenal

Arsenal

  • The Gunners have won their first Premier League fixture just once in the last seven seasons (D3, L3), and began with defeats in each of their previous two campaigns.
  • They have not lost their opening league match in three consecutive seasons since 1958 to 1960.
  • Arsene Wenger's side ended last season with five straight league wins - they last won six in a row between August and October 2016.
  • The Gunners have never lost a Premier League game on a Friday, winning six of seven matches. Their last league defeat on a Friday came against Watford in April 1988.
  • This will be Arsene Wenger's 22nd Premier League season as a manager, a new record.
  • Alexandre Lacazette, who has joined from Lyon, scored an unrivalled 91 goals in the French top flight over the last four seasons.

Leicester

  • The Foxes have won their opening match just once in their last eight Premier League campaigns - they beat Sunderland 4-2 at the start of their title-winning season in 2015-16.
  • Only twice before have Leicester started a top-flight campaign with an away victory, both at Aston Villa - 3-0 in 1927-28 and 3-2 in 1933-34.
  • Leicester's most recent top-flight win on a Friday came against Derby on Boxing Day 1975.
  • Jamie Vardy has scored Leicester City's last three goals against Arsenal. However, he is yet to end on the winning side.
  • Craig Shakespeare won his first five league games in charge of Leicester but has just two victories in his subsequent eight matches (D2, L4).
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Why dafaq Wenger doesnt understand a f**ckin simple thing. These Players are not good enough. f**ckin Chambo fuc off u c*nt. Holding wtf are u nervous about. Welbeck is a Nut.

 

Same old players betraying Wenger. Yet he trusts them : furious:

 

Get a f**kn CB,CM and Winger for gods sake.

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We did it : wootjumpy: I would take 3 Points any Freakin way . Massive Point's.

 

Giroud muaaaahhhh. laca will be an all time great. Dat guy has calmness and scoring ability. Loved his performance.

 

 

Ozil was sh*t

Xhaka was sh*t

Elneny Super sh*t

Welbeck was sh*t

Ox was sh*t

Cech was sh*t

Walcott is the definition of sh*t

 

 

Still we won but Wenger won't learn,he will keeo trysting them and eventually it will again be his downfall.

 

Stoke Next. Come on ARSENAL :punk:

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