Arsenal vs West Ham

Mikel Arteta picked up his 177th win as Arsenal manager in his 300th game. Only three managers have ever won more of their first 300 in charge of a top-flight English club – Pep Guardiola with Man City (219), José Mourinho with Chelsea (196 across two spells) and Kenny Dalglish with Liverpool (185).

Bukayo Saka’s penalty was his 100th goal involvement in the Premier League (55 goals, 45 assists), the eighth Arsenal player to reach that milestone and third Englishman after Ian Wright (123) and Theo Walcott (108).

West Ham’s four points from their opening seven games is their joint-worst return at this stage of a Premier League campaign, also having four in 2016-17 and 2022-23.

Arsenal have lost both of their last two home league games against West Ham, only ever losing three in a row once before (November 1991 to March 1995).

West Ham United are looking to become only the second side to win three successive Premier League away games against Arsenal, after Manchester City, who won six on the bounce from March 2018 to February 2023.

Although Arsenal have only lost four of their last 42 home Premier League matches (W29 D9), 50% of those have been against West Ham, losing to the Hammers in December 2023 and February 2025.

West Ham United have lost more Premier League London derbies than any other side (134), suffering eight defeats in their last 11 derby matches (W2 D1).

Arsenal have won six of their last eight Premier League matches (D1 L1), with their only two failures to win in that run coming against Liverpool (lost 1-0) and Man City (drew 1-1). The Gunners have more points (19) than any other side since the start of this run on 18 May.