Manchester City vs Arsenal: Team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats from the Premier League clash

Ahead of the Premier League's weekend action, Sportsmail will be providing you with team news, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all you need to know as Manchester City welcome Arsenal.

In or out? Keep up-to-date with all the latest team news and stats ahead of the weekend games

Manchester City vs Arsenal (Etihad Stadium)

Team news


Manchester City

Premier League leaders Manchester City have no fresh injury concerns ahead of Sunday's clash with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium.

Captain Vincent Kompany remains on the sidelines with a calf injury, but manager Pep Guardiola hopes to have him back in training after the international break.

Left-back Benjamin Mendy is the only other senior absentee due to a long-term knee injury.

Provisional squad: Ederson, Bravo, Danilo, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Mangala, Delph, Toure, Gundogan, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Sane, Sterling, D Silva, B Silva, Aguero, Jesus.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany remains on the sidelines with a calf injury

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany remains on the sidelines with a calf injury

 

Arsenal

Arsenal will be hoping Sead Kolasinac overcomes a hip injury in time to line up against Premier League leaders Manchester City on Sunday.

The Bosnia-Herzegovina international limped out of last weekend's win over Swansea after scoring and laying on an assist but manager Arsene Wenger believes he should be fit and available.

Wenger changed his entire team for the Europa League draw with Red Star Belgrade but the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil and Alexandre Lacazette are in line to return at the Etihad Stadium, although Shkodran Mustafi (hamstring), Santi Cazorla (ankle), Calum Chambers (hip), Danny Welbeck and David Ospina (both groin) remain sidelined.

Provisional squad: Cech, Macey, Mertesacker, Holding, Koscielny, Monreal, Debuchy, Bellerin, Nelson, Kolasinac, Maitland-Niles, Ramsey, Wilshere, Xhaka, Elneny, Willock, Ozil, Giroud, Walcott, Sanchez, Iwobi, Lacazette, Nketiah.

Arsenal will be hoping Sead Kolasinac overcomes a hip injury in time to line up on Sunday

Arsenal will be hoping Sead Kolasinac overcomes a hip injury in time to line up on Sunday

 

Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

Manchester City have only won one of their last nine matches against Arsenal in all competitions (D4 L4), with that victory coming in this exact fixture last season.

Arsenal's 2-0 victory at the Etihad in January 2015 remains the Gunners' only away Premier League victory against the 'big six' since the start of the 2014-15 season (D7 L9).

City have won all nine of their league games in which they've led this season, while Arsenal have won the most games (three) and points (nine) from losing positions so far.

City are the third team in Premier League history to have won as many as 28 points from their first 10 games of the season. Only themselves (2011-12) and Chelsea (2005-06)also managed this. In 2011 they had an inferior goal difference to the current side. They both won the Premier League title at the end of those campaigns.

The Citizens have scored 20 goals in their last four home league games this season – that's more than 18 of the other 19 clubs in the division have netted in total in their opening 10 games of 2017-18.

Pep Guardiola has won four of his five home meetings with Arsene Wenger in all competitions

Pep Guardiola has won four of his five home meetings with Arsene Wenger in all competitions

The Gunners have won just 17 of the 45 away points available to them in 2017, winning five, drawing two and losing eight of their 15 games on the road.

Pep Guardiola has won four of his five home meetings with Arsene Wenger in all competitions (D1) – his sides have never kept a clean sheet in that run but have scored 15 goals to Arsenal's 5.

Theo Walcott has scored more away goals at the Etihad Stadium than any other Arsenal player (three). However, he hasn't started a Premier League game since April, playing just 46 minutes in the competition this season.

Coming into this matchday, Leroy Sane has been involved in more goals than any other Premier League player this season (six goals, five assists). The German scored both home and away against the Gunners in the Premier League last season.

Sergio Aguero has scored five goals in his last seven matches for Manchester City against Arsenal in all competitions.

MANCHESTER CITY VS ARSENAL 

Kick-off: 2.15pm (Sunday)

Referee: Michael Oliver

Odds (subject to change):

Manchester City 4/9

Draw 9/2

Arsenal 13/2

Managers:

Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)

Arsene Wenger (Arsenal)

Recent league form (last five games):

Manchester City: WWWWW

Arsenal: WWLWW

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