So Arsenal welcome Sean Dyche’s Burnley outfit to the Emirates for the 2.15pm kick-off on Sunday in the Premier League as the Gunners are coming into the match on the back of a 4-0 thumping of Swansea City away where they totally dominated proceedings. Burnley come into the match on the back of losing 6 and winning 4 of their past 10 Premier League matches whereas Arsenal have won 6, drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last 10 Premier League fixtures and will be wanting to make sure of all 3 points against the lower positioned sides after dropping 2 points recently against Bournemouth where they went 3-0 down before roaring back with 20 minutes to go to secure a very valuable point from what was ultimately a 3-3 tie.

Looking at recent history Arsenal are unbeaten in their past 7 encounters with the Lancashire club in all competitions having won 6 games while drawing only 1 game. Their last loss to Burnley came way back in December 2008 when they lost 2-0 in the League Cup. Burnley have lost on their last 5 trips to play the Gunners away in all competitions since they last won way, way back in September of 1974 triumphing by a 1-0 scoreline in the League.

When you compare the two sides from an offensive point of view it is plain to see that Arsenal are by far the more attacking outfit as Alexis Sanchez has managed an almost League leading 155 touches in the opponents’ penalty area (2nd only just to Man City’s Raheem Sterling who has 156 touches in the opponents’ penalty area). Burnley on the other hand are way behind as their top player in this statistic is Welsh international striker Sam Vokes who has only managed about a third of Sanchez’s number with 57 touches in the opponents’ penalty area.

Sanchez has a really impressive record against the Clarets as in his past 2 games against them in all competitions at the Emirates Stadium he has scored 3 goals and added an assist. Olivier Giroud is also red-hot coming into the match as he has scored in 4 consecutive games for Arsenal and looking at the bigger picture Giroud has actually scored 11 goals in his last 9 starts for the club so he is a man bang in-form.

While Arsenal mainly rely on a few sources for goals, Burnley have had an extraordinary 13 different scorers this season, tieing them with Manchester City for the League high. Of course Burnley have had massive trouble getting results away from Turf Moor as they have the worst record away from home of all Premier League clubs – losing 8 games and drawing only 1 game. Burnley however are looking much better than the last time they were in the top flight as they already have 26 points so far this season which puts them only 7 points off the 33 points they managed in the whole campaign in 2014/15 when they were last playing in the Premier League.

So you could argue that Burnley are due for a win at the Emirates especially as they come into the match after winning over Southampton 1-0 at home last time out but we think Arsenal are bang back in-form after their 4-0 demolition of Swansea City last weekend. Therefore after analysing the stats we think Arsenal will win the game by a 3-1 scoreline and the Gunners will be hoping that they can beat the Clarets before Chelsea kick-off in their 4.15pm Sunday game againt Hull City thereby applying some pressure to the Blues to not drop points and allow the Gunners to gain valuable ground on them in the title race.