Arsenal vs Crystal Palace 28.10.2019

Arsenal vs Crystal Palace today EPL match on 28 October 2019.


Arsenal recommences their Premier League (PL) campaign this weekend safe in the knowledge that they enjoy an excellent record as a home favorite since the beginning of last season (W16, D3, L1). Ironically, they are unbeaten in PL home games since April, when last facing Crystal Palace.

Unai Emery’s team knows the importance of the first goal as they’re unbeaten in all four PL fixtures when opening the scoring (W3, D1). Yet while they’ve only conceded one second-half goal in PL encounters this season, they’ve actually been losing five times at half-time - the joint-highest tally in the league after nine rounds.

Crystal Palace travel optimistically knowing they defeated four top-half teams last season, including champions Man City, whilst this season they’ve already won at Man Utd. Scoring goals is the key to their success as they’ve only kept three clean sheets across their previous 20 PL away fixtures.

Arsenal vs Bournemouth epl 6.10.2019

Ahead of kick-off, four of Arsenal’s last five Premier League (PL) home games have seen them lose one half by a one-goal margin. Encouragingly though, they have recovered four points from a possible six after going into the interval one goal behind in their last two home league games.

As a result of this tendency to surge in the second half, the period after the break accounts for six of Arsenal’s seven-point home tally so far this season. The ‘Gunners’ have also scored the last goal in each of their PL home matches this term.

Echoing the fact that all of Arsenal’s PL home games this term have seen both teams score, all seven of Bournemouth’s PL games to date also bear that characteristic. The ‘Cherries’ have opened the scoring in a majority (four) of those fixtures and consistently avoided defeat after doing so (W3, D1).

Arsenal vs ST Liegie 4.10.2019

A 3-0 win in Frankfurt represented the perfect start for Arsenal in this season’s UEFA Europa League (UEL) campaign. Overall it is now six UEL wins in seven for the Gunners, with five of those six victories coming by a margin of multiple goals. Arsenal has also won their last five UEL home games in succession, all with a clean sheet and/or a winning margin of over 1.5 goals. Their last four UEL games here fall into the latter category, with the ‘Gunners’ prevailing in seven of a possible eight halves across those wins, and scoring exactly twice in the opening half-hour of the last three. 

Standard Liège won on matchday one too, but their all-time record vs English clubs stands at W2, D3, L11. Furthermore, their UEL away form has been dire in recent years, with the Belgian outfit returning a record of W2, D3, L9, from all UEL trips since October 2013. 

Just one of those wins came during the group stage. Yet, regardless of the result, Standard has still managed to score in four of their last five UEL away games, with both of their away goals in last season’s group stage coming in the first half.