Arsenal will make a short trip across West London to Craven Cottage this Sunday, where they will face European hopefuls Fulham.
The hosts, alongside Brentford and Brighton, want to break the top-six monopoly this season. However, their chances of doing so was dealt a huge blow last weekend when they suffered a 3-2 loss to Thomas Frank’s Brentford side.
The result ended a run of seven games without defeat for Marco Silva’s side (W5, D2), who now enter this game sitting in seventh place, one point behind their top six rivals, having played two games more.
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They will return home to Craven Cottage, looking to get back to winning ways and rekindle their quest for a first European appearance since 2011/12. Returning home could provide a much-needed boost for the Cottagers, who have lost just three of their 13 PL games here this term (W6, D4). That record could give Fulham false hope for this clash, though, as they’re winless at Craven Cottage against sides starting the round above them (D1, L3).
Arsenal will fancy their chances here, given they are unbeaten in their last nine head-to-head games at any venue against Fulham. The Gunners have seven wins in their last nine meetings with Fulham and won the reverse fixture 2-1.
They kept their hopes for their first title since 2003 with a miraculous comeback win over Bournemouth last time (3-2). They followed up that win with a 2-2 away draw with Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League last Thursday, taking their unbeaten run in all competitions to five games.
Any fear of fatigue after this game should be quashed as they’ve amassed a six-game unbeaten PL run in games directly following each of their last six Europa League matches (W5, D1). It should be noted that two of those PL wins came in London derbies and without reply, a statistic which bodes well for Arsenal as they look to improve on their impressive 71% win-rate against Fulham in PL action (W22, D6, L3).Click here to get the correct score prediction for football games.
