Stoke City v Arsenal: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, odds and stats from the Premier League clash

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Stoke's home clash with Arsenal...

Stoke City v Arsenal (Bet365 Stadium) 

Team news

Stoke 

Stoke could hand a debut to on-loan Paris St Germain striker Jese Rodriguez in Saturday's home Premier League clash against Arsenal.

Belgian forward Julien Ngoy looks set for up to six weeks on the sidelines with a thigh problem.

Jese Rodriguez has joined Stoke City on loan from Paris Saint-Germain

Ibrahim Afellay (knee) and Stephen Ireland (broken leg) continue to recover from long-term injuries.

Provisional squad: Butland, Zouma, Shawcross, Cameron, Diouf, Allen, Fletcher, Pieters, Shaqiri, Bojan, Berahino, Grant, Johnson, Tymon, Adam, Ramadan, Choupo-Moting, Crouch, Jese.

Arsenal

Arsenal will again be without Alexis Sanchez for their Premier League trip to Stoke on Saturday evening.

The forward is sidelined with an abdominal injury but could return against Liverpool next week, while defender Laurent Koscielny is also missing as he serves the last of a three-game ban.

Alexis Sanchez will once again miss out for Arsenal when they travel to Stoke City

Shkodran Mustafi, Per Mertesacker and Francis Coquelin should all be available after missing the win over Leicester, while Mesut Ozil could also be back following an ankle issue. Santi Cazorla (ankle) is a long-term absentee.

Provisional squad: Cech, Ospina, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Holding, Monreal, Mustafi, Bellerin, Nelson, Kolasinac, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Coquelin, Xhaka, Elneny, Ozil, Giroud, Walcott, Iwobi, Welbeck, Lacazette.

Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

Stoke have lost just once in their last seven home games against the Gunners (W3 D3 L1), although it came last time out in May, losing 1-4.

Arsenal have won four of their last five Premier League games against Stoke, drawing the other.

Arsenal will be looking to win their opening two games to a Premier League season for the first time since 2009-10.

Stoke suffered a 0-1 away defeat to Everton on MD1 and they last lost their opening two games of a Premier League season in 2010-11.

Olivier Giroud’s winner against Leicester in the opening game was his 99th goal for Arsenal – he’s looking to become the 19th player to score a century of goals for the Gunners.

Sanchez was on target when Arsenal thumped Stoke 4-1 at the Bet365 Stadium back in May

Peter Crouch, who has netted more Premier League goals versus Arsenal than any other side (9), has scored in his last two appearances against them at the Bet365 Stadium.

Mesut Ozil scored in both league meetings with Stoke last season in the Premier League.

Alexandre Lacazette could become the first Arsenal player to score in both of his opening two Premier League appearances for the club, should he net in this fixture.

In fact, the last Arsenal player to score in his first two league appearances for the club was Ian Wright back in 1991.

Granit Xhaka assisted two goals in Arsenal’s 4-3 win over Leicester on MD1 – this equalled his tally in the entire 2016-17 Premier League season (two in 32 apps).

Mark Hughes has lost more Premier League matches against Arsene Wenger (13) than he has versus any other manager in the competition.

Hughes has averaged 1.20 points per game in Premier League games played in August, only in November matches (0.98) has he recorded a lower rate as a manager.