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Arsenal will look to keep pace with title rivals Manchester City when they host Brighton this afternoon.
The Gunners have won their last two top-flight games to bounce back from their untimely blip and go into this weekend one point behind leaders City.
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Arteta’s Arsenal take on Brighton this weekend
Mikel Arteta and co know they will likely have to win every game until the end of the season to have any chance of claiming the title.
But that won’t be easy against a Brighton side who have been superb this term.
However, the Seagulls were hammered by Everton last time out and lost 4-2 to Arsenal in the reverse fixture on New Year’s Eve.
Arsenal v Brighton: How to follow
This Premier League clash will take place on Sunday, May 14.
Kick-off at the Emirates is scheduled for 4:30pm.
The match will be available to watch live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League.
talkSPORT will also have updates of all the action in north London.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton have been impressive this season
Arsenal v Brighton: Team news
Arsenal will remain without William Saliba and Takehiro Tomiyasu while Oleksandr Zinchenko is a doubt with a calf issue.
Mohamed Elneny also remains out but the Gunners have no further new issues to deal with.
Brighton star Solly March is a doubt due to a hamstring injury but Joel Veltman could return from a similar problem.
Tariq Lamptey, Adam Lallana, Jeremy Sarmiento and Jakub Moder are still on the sidelines.
Seagulls striker Evan Ferguson will be pushing for a start.
Arsenal v Brighton: What has been said?
Arsenal midfield Thomas Partey: “When a team has that mentality I think it’s hard to stop them but I believe in our qualities and I believe in every player.
“When you win games, you have a better chance of winning the next one because your confidence level is high, so we have to try and be ourselves and try and play the Arsenal way. Whenever we do that, we are able to beat any team.
“You can see [Brighton] play good football and their mentality is strong. They never give up.
“I think it will be a very difficult game because they want to keep the ball, and we want to keep the ball so we have to be good at doing that and stronger in recovering the ball and keeping it.
“Any team that likes to dominate play has their own weaknesses. You’ll have to see after the game how we will try to hurt them but we are training a lot on that.
“Every team that is good have their weaknesses but we will try and explore that, play as we know how to play and we’ll be able to beat them.”
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Zinchenko is a doubt for Arsenal
Arsenal v Brighton: Match facts
Arsenal have won 25 of their 35 Premier League games this season (D6 L4); only in 1930-31 (28), 1970-71 (29), 2001-02 (26) and 2003-04 (26) have they ever won more league matches in a single campaign, with the Gunners winning the top-flight title in all four of those seasons.Arsenal have won five of their last six league games at the Emirates (D1), scoring at least three goals in all six such games; only two sides have ever scored 3+ goals in more consecutive Premier League home games – Manchester United (7 from December 2009 to March 2010) and Manchester City (10 from April to October 2022).After losing 1-5 at home to Everton last time out, Brighton could suffer consecutive Premier League defeats for only a second time this season (previously in October). Away from home, the Seagulls have lost two of their last three league games (W1), as many as their previous 10 beforehand (W4 D4 L2).Brighton have lost nine of their 10 Premier League away games against sides starting the day in the top two, with the exception being a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in October 2021. They have conceded 23 goals in those 10 matches, while scoring just six in reply.Brighton have won three of their last four away games against Arsenal in all competitions (L1), including a 3-1 victory in this season’s EFL Cup. The Seagulls had been winless in their first eight visits to the Gunners before this run (D2 L6).Following their 4-2 win at the Amex Stadium in December, Arsenal are looking to complete the Premier League double over Brighton for just the second time (also 2020-21).Alexis Mac Allister has scored 10 Premier League goals this season, more than any Brighton player, while the only player to score more in a season in the competition for the Seagulls is Glenn Murray, who netted 12 in 2017-18 and 13 in 2018-19.Arsenal are averaging 1.9 points-per-game and a 50% win rate in the Premier League this season when defender William Saliba hasn’t played (P8 W4 D3 L1), compared to 2.4 points-per-game and a 78% win rate when he has featured (P27 W21 D3 L3). The Gunners concede twice as many goals-per-game on average when he hasn’t played (1.8) versus when he has (0.9) this term, also facing more shots-per-game without him (11.8) than with him (8.3).Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has been involved in four goals in his four Premier League games against Brighton (2 goals, 2 assists), both scoring and assisting in the Gunners’ 4-2 win against them in December. The Norwegian has scored five goals in his last five Premier League appearances overall.Brighton’s 27 Premier League matches under Roberto De Zerbi have seen 92 goals (52 for, 40 against). Among managers to take charge of 20+ games in the competition’s history, only John Gorman’s matches have had a higher goal rate (3.50 – 147 goals in 42 games) than the Italian’s (3.41).
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