Arsenal vs Burnley preview for Saturday’s Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium. Both of these teams started the season by winning to nil.
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The hosts were the third-best home side in the league and succumbed to a loss on no more than two occasions throughout their previous campaign.
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Forty-two of the Gunners overall seventy-two goals, came from their matchups on home soil, and that too while conceding just sixteen.
Arsenal vs Burnley Head-To-Head Record
Last 4 matches
- May 12 2019: Burnley 1-3 Arsenal
- December 22 2018: Arsenal 3-1 Burnley
- May 6 2018: Arsenal 5-0 Burnley
- November 26 2017: Burnley 0-1 Arsenal
Total head-to-head league matches played: 96
- Arsenal wins: 46
- Burnley wins: 30
- Draws: 20
Arsenal: Leno; Maitland-Niles, Luiz, Sokratis, Monreal; Guendouzi, Xhaka; Mkhitaryan, Ceballos, Pepe; Aubameyang
Burnley: Pope; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters; Gudmundsson, Cork, Westwood, McNeil; Barnes; Wood
Arsenal vs Burnley Match Preview
Arsenal continue to be a work in progress under Unai Emery, but they are fancied to beat Burnley more convincingly at home than in their narrow season-opening win at Newcastle.
This looks like being a second campaign of transition for the Gunners from Arsene Wenger’s era and, following a busier than expected summer of transfer activity regarding new arrivals at the club, there is still some time to elapse before Emery can definitively call it ‘his’ team.
There were four new signings on the bench at Newcastle, while left-back recruit Kieran Tierney is a couple of months away from playing after injury. Alexandre Lacazette was an unused substitute on Tyneside, Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac were omitted due to ongoing personal issues and youngsters Joe Willock and Reiss Nelson were blooded from the start.
Essentially, it is nigh impossible to predict who Emery will pick from one game to the next, but he got Arsenal to the Europa League Final last term and optimism ought to be high of a top-four finish this time around.