When and where
Manchester City travel to the Emirates Stadium to face Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday 2 April in the day’s late kick off at 4pm BST.
Sky Sports One will broadcast the game live for fans living in the UK and Blues around the world should check out our TV guide to find out how they can tune in.
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Team News
Arsenal: Petr Cech (calf), Lucas Perez (thigh) and Santi Cazorla (leg) are out.
City: Raheem Sterling (back), Bacary Sagna (groin), Pablo Zabaleta (knock) and Kevin De Bruyne (groin) are fit to play. Ilkay Gundogan (knee) and Gabriel Jesus (foot) remain ’s long-term absentees.
The last time
City’s last trip to Arsenal ended in defeat, as Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud netted to hand the Gunners a 2-0 lead. Yaya Toure curled a beauty into the far corner late on but the Blues could not salvage a draw.
The two sides have met since at the Etihad Stadium, playing out a 2-2 draw in May before Guardiola’s men came from behind to triumph 2-1 in December.
Stats
- City are looking to do the double over Arsenal in a league season for the first time since 1975/76.
- The last seven Premier League meetings between these two sides have produced 27 goals - 3.86 per game, on average.
- Arsene Wenger has won just two of his previous nine competitive meetings with Pep Guardiola (W2 D2 L5), both in the Champions League.
- On the day of this game, Arsenal will have spent 1209 days behind Manchester City in the Premier League table since the start of 2011-12. In the six Premier League seasons prior to this (2005-06 to 2010-11), they spent just 246 days behind Man City in the Premier League table.
- Only Thierry Henry (0.73) has a better goals per game record against Premier League sides from London than Sergio Aguero (0.70) – min. 15 games. The Argentine striker has 37 goals in 53 apps against teams from the capital.
- These two sides have scored the most goals through substitutes in the Premier League this season – Arsenal (8) and Manchester City (7).
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