MATCH FACTS
1.This will be the main alliance meeting among Brentford and Arsenal since May 1947, a match the Gunners won 1-0 at Griffin Park.
2.Arsenal have won only one of their six visits to Brentford in all contests (D1 L4), however this will be the main such gathering since May 1947.
3.Brentford will be the 50th distinctive group to play in the Premier League, and the tenth from London. Only 11 of the past 49 members have won their first since forever game in the opposition (D15 L23), while no side from the capital has won their first historically speaking Premier League game (D5 L4).
4.When starting off their Premier League season away from home, Arsenal are unbeaten in seven games (W5 D2) since losing 0-1 at Sunderland in the 2000-01 mission. The Gunners started last season with a 3-0 triumph away against advanced side Fulham.
5.Brentford against Arsenal is just the third since forever game in Premier League history to be played on Friday the thirteenth – the other two games were in April 2001, with Bradford City winning 2-0 against Charlton Athletic and Leeds United beating Liverpool 2-1.
6.In English first class history, Arsenal (47%) and Brentford (43%) have the two most elevated success rates in London derby matches. The Gunners have played 700 such games (329 successes) while Brentford have played only 28 (12 successes).
7.This is the fourth time Arsenal have been engaged with the initial round of a Premier League crusade, winning the other three against West Brom (2008-09), Leicester (2017-18) and Fulham (2020-21). In the interim, this is the third season in succession where the initial apparatus has included an advanced side, with those sides losing by three objectives in the past two (Norwich 1-4 Liverpool, Fulham 0-3 Arsenal).
8.Brentford's Community Stadium will be the 60th distinctive ground to have a Premier League match. Up until now, Arsenal have succeeded at 53 of the 59, with just Liverpool (57) and Man Utd (54) succeeding at additional.
9.Counting the end of the season games, Brentford striker Ivan Toney was straightforwardly engaged with 43 Championship objectives during the 2020-21 season (33 objectives, 10 helps). Toney showed up in 2015-16 for Newcastle United, both five-minute substitute appearances against Chelsea and Manchester United. He could turn into the subsequent player to make his initial three Premier League appearances against every one of Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd, after goalkeeper Bernard Lama in March 1998 for West Ham.
10.Arms stockpile's Nicolas Pépé completed last season scoring five objectives in three games, netting a support in the Gunners' last two rounds of the period. The solitary Arsenal player to score 2+ objectives in three back to back Premier League games is Robin van Persie, who did as such in October 2011.
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