The Red Devils do have a great track record running against the Clarets as they are unbeaten in their last 12
home league fixtures against them in a W8 D4 record in that sequence.
Not exact matches
At
home this time and off the back of a fantastic performance
against Burnley, the Gunners should be far more confident heading into their midweek Champions
League fixture.
Last weekend's 2 - 2 draw at the Emirates
against Hull City can not be an ideal preparation, going into a crucial Champions
League fixture as Arsenal do when they take on Anderlecht at the
home of the Belgium champions.
Arsenal face off
against Swiss side Basel on Match Day Two, in a
fixture that'll see Champions
League football return to the
home of Arsenal for yet another consecutive season.
Arsenal have
League games
against Sunderland, Aston Villa, Manchester City, Southampton and Bournemouth before Xmas and the New Year
fixture at
home to lowly Newcastle.
In addition to the aforementioned
home fixture against Man City, Arsenal face a
fixture pileup that sees them play 7 games during a 3 - week period, which includes an away tie
against Dortmund in the Champions
League; with Man City, Spurs and Chelsea to take care of, in the Premier
League.
They have won all four of their
home league games,
against Leicester, Bournemouth, West Brom and Brighton, as well cup
fixtures against Cologne, Doncaster and Norwich.
Manchester United return to Premier
League action this weekend with a
home fixture against Swansea City.
It should have been away from
home but the
fixtures against the Owls have been reversed which sees the team directly below us in the
league visit Gawthorpe.
The Clarets won this corresponding
fixture 1 - 0 last season and they are unbeaten in their three previous Premier
League home games
against Stoke (W1 D2).
West Brom showed the biggest discrepancy between their two
home games being the only club in the Premier
League to dip below 90 % of their stadium capacity on their weekend
fixture against Crystal Palace with 3,319 seats unfilled.
Manager Jose Mourinho, who made it eight wins and three draws in his own unbeaten run
against Russian clubs, had warned the players he would not tolerate the sort of «PlayStation football» which had seen his side ease up at 2 - 0 in their opening Champions
League fixture at
home to Basel.
Following that, Van Gaal's team will take on West Ham United in the final ever game at Upton Park, while they conclude their
league campaign with a
home fixture against Bournemouth.
Burnley won the Championship last season to move into the Premier
League for a third time, and just under a week ago the 2016/17
fixtures revealed that we would kick off with a
home game
against Swansea City.
Most likely Wenger will use Nasri in
home games
against the lesser lights of the
league, while Denilson will feature in the tougher
fixtures.
It's Hull up first for the Clarets in the Professional Development
League as we look for just our second win of the season
against a
home side who, having started poorly, have won their last two games
against Cardiff and Coventry with the second, a
home fixture, being played in the KCOM Stadium immediately after a
home first team game.
They struggled at
home against Middlesbrough in their last game in the Premier
League without Cazorla, drawing 0 - 0 with Aitor Karanka's side, and despite dominating Sunderland for much of the game, their failure to kill off the
fixture allowed the hosts to come back with a second half Jermain Defoe penalty.
Sagna, capped 65 times by France, will be available to Roberto De Zerbi from next week, meaning that the former Arsenal right back's
league debut for his new club could come at the Olimpico
against Roma, rather than this weekend's
fixture at
home against Napoli
Ipswich have produced a W4 D2 record them this season in the
league but suffered a 3 - 1 defeat
against Bristol City in their most recent
home fixture?
Made by Adidas, the new NFFC shirt was officially unveiled on 7 May, 2017, on the eve of the club's all important clash at
home against Ipswich - a
fixture that will determine whether they stay in the Championship or drop to
League One along with Wigan and Rotherham.
Looking at other
fixtures, Man City have won four of their last six
home league games
against Stoke by the same scoreline: 3 - 0.
The First - Team return to action next Sunday with a
home league game
against Clapham United while the Development Team are currently without a
fixture.
Enrique is gearing his players up for a Catalan derby versus Espanyol Sunday evening and a huge Champions
League home fixture against Paris Saint Germain to decide the top spot in Group F.
Rivers United made it six games unbeaten
against Akwa United with a
home win in a rescheduled Nigeria Professional Football
League fixture on Thursday, while MFM FC held on for a narrow
home win despite a late Nasarawa United onslaught.
Arsenal «s Premier
League fixture list for the 2016/17 season has been released and they face a tough start at
home against Liverpool.
In that run, there are four especially winnable
home -
league fixtures against Bournemouth, West Brom, Brighton, and Swansea.
Although Fulham were at
home in the FA Cup
against Swindon Town, winning 1 - 0, that was a brisk visit to Craven Cottage as Fulham's last two
league fixtures have both been away from
home, with this trip to Blackburn set to be their third in a row.
Those are three tough
fixtures and Rovers did well to avoid defeat in all three, but all three were at
home and while Blackburn are undefeated in their last two away ventures in the
league, both of those away encounters were
against the two sides right at the very bottom of the table in Burnley (0 - 1) and Portsmouth (0 - 0).
But Jose Mourinho has yet to win away from
home against a top six side for two years now (one goal scored in ten games) and given the next few
fixtures for United — not least the monumental Manchester Derby which is scheduled for next week — there is a sense of now or never at United, even though they are comfortably placed second in the
league table.
The Blues were last in action in mid-November when we beat Rosengard to clinch a Champions
League quarter - final
against Montpellier, and this Saturday we kick off a run of three
home fixtures in the space of little over a week.
On paper, Chivas would be heavy favorites
against Veracruz, but the
home side is halfway through a CONCACAF Champions
League semifinal series
against the New York Red Bulls — winning the first leg 1 - 0 at
home — and coach Matias Almeyda will surely be resting some of his already - tired squad for the Liga MX
fixture.
A good looking match here then, made interesting because Manchester United have failed to win any of their last three
home fixtures against Southampton in the Premier
League.
A tumultuous seven day period that began with a dire draw
against Newcastle United and was followed by the transfer of the Arsenal captain to Barcelona, ended with a 2 - 0 loss to Liverpool in the Gunners» first
home fixture of the new Barclay's Premier
League season.
Costa had denied the charge but the FA's decision to uphold it means that he will now miss Chelsea's next three games
against Walsall in tomorrow night's Capital One Cup tie, Saturday's evening Premier
League fixture against Newcaslte United and the Blues» home match in the league against Southampton a week on Sat
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home match in the
league against Southampton a week on Sat
league against Southampton a week on Saturday.
A trip to Birmingham isn't what the team really need right now, in search of a morale boosting win, their first of the campaign,
against a Birmingham side who haven't lost a
home fixture in the
league for 18 games — You can't make this stuff up.
It's a busy programme of
fixtures for our Academy this week, with a
home Under - 18 Premier
League fixture against Swansea City taking place at Hotspur Way tomorrow (Wednesday 14 March, 11 am) before the Under - 18 Premier
League Cup Final
against Chelsea at their Cobham training base on Sunday (18 March, 2 pm).
Burnley, meanwhile, will be hoping to get back to
league action with a
home fixture against Morecambe.
They have only lost one
home game in their last twelve European
fixtures on
home soil across the Champions
League and Europa
League (W9 D2) though and that was
against Celta Vigo in last season's Europa
League round of 32.
Fraizer Campbell, a player who has only featured in a handful of games for Sunderland this season, scored a brace
against Barrow whilst playing the role of assistant in Sunderland's third, so perhaps his classy display will put him into Steve Bruce's starting equation ahead of their
home fixture with Bolton in a game Sunderland have to win to banish their poor run of
league form.
Bournemouth have failed to score in three of their four previous Premier
League games (
home and away)
against Man City and lost this corresponding
fixture from last season 2 - 0 after going down 4 - 0 at the Etihad.
Furthermore, the Potters, while they were victorious in their most recent
home fixture — Kenwyn Jones on target in a 2 - 0 triumph over Everton; Jones registering his first
league goal in seven matches — have won only one of their last four at the Brittania, and two of those were defeats to sides currently situated in the lower half of the table in Blackpool 0 - 1 & Fulham 0 - 2, the latter
against a side who had not won away from in 28 attempts.
Some match days will be tougher than others, there are even half - a-dozen where points are unlikely to fall their way, so when you see a
fixture like this — Blackpool at
home against bottom - of - the -
league West Ham — you know the manager will be drilling it into his players just how significant a game this is.
But the list stretches further back than just this term, especially their Stamford Bridge casualties, as Chelsea haven't dropped points in a
league fixture on
home soil since the middle of February, while they haven't even conceded a goal on
home soil since the end of March, so just scoring
against them appears a daunting enough task, let alone actually snatching points off the early pacesetters.
Real Madrid won this corresponding
fixture 2 - 1 last season and they haven't lost on
home soil
against Valencia since a 2008
league defeat.