Having won each of their first eight home games against Bournemouth in all competitions, Arsenal lost this exact league fixture 2-1 last season.

Bournemouth have won two of their last three league games against Arsenal, more than they had in their previous 14 (W1 D2 L11).

Arsenal have won each of their last four Premier League games and are looking to win five in a row for the third time this season, after September 28th to November 1st and December 13th to January 3rd. It would be only the third Premier League season in which the Gunners have had three separate runs of 5+ successive wins, after 2013-14 and 2022-23.

Bournemouth’s 11-game unbeaten run (W4 D7) is their joint-longest in the Premier League, along with between November 2024 and January 2025 (W7 D4). Indeed, the Cherries could become the first side in the competition to record six successive draws since Manchester City in November 2009 (7).

Arsenal could equal their joint-longest winning run in the Premier League this season with victory over Bournemouth (5 games), having won five in a row between September-November and December-January. It would be the sixth run of 5+ wins by a side this term, with no other team recording more than one (Aston Villa, Liverpool and Man City all one).

In Bournemouth (65, 5 goals) and Arsenal (64, 6 goals), these two sides have recorded the most direct attacks in the Premier League this season, with the Cherries’ seven against Manchester United last time out the joint-most in a Premier League game in 2025-26.

Arsenal this season average 0.71 expected goals against per game in the Premier League (22.1 xGA in 31 games), the lowest by any side in a season in the division since Manchester City in 2021-22 (0.65 per game).

Arsenal’s Declan Rice has both scored (5) and been involved in (7) more Premier League goals against Bournemouth than any other opponent, with all seven of these involvements coming in his last eight appearances against the Cherries.

Bournemouth’s Adrien Truffert has recorded 74 overlapping runs in the Premier League this season, 36 more than anyone else, while among defenders this term he ranks joint-third for assists from open play (3) and fourth for expected assists from open play (2.4).

Bournemouth’s Junior Kroupi netted his ninth Premier League goal of the season last time out against Manchester United; the last teenager to score 10+ goals in his first season in the competition was Robbie Keane for Coventry City in 1999-00 (12).