Arsenal can match Mikel Arteta record vs Leicester

We’ve come a long, long way together. Through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you, baby. I have to praise you like I should. And, you know what Arsenal? We will.

Well in the top four hunt this season, the chance has presented itself for the Gunners to extend a fine run of form that has seen them win eight of the past ten Premier League fixtures, losing only once to Manchester City having been reduced to ten men.

Leicester are the weekend’s enemy and act as the latest installment of the 13 remaining ‘cup finals’, with Brendan Rodgers’ side finding form of their own with four straight wins in all competitions.

Who else is currently on a run of four straight wins? Arsenal are.

Arsenal can match Mikel Arteta record vs Leicester with fifth straight Premier League win for the second time since he became manager

In his 83 matches as boss Arteta has managed one particular feat only once, a record he can match should his side claim all three points on Sunday.

Indeed, victory would ensure that the Gunners have won five consecutive Premier League matches, with the first and only other time that happened during the manager’s tenure coming in the final five games of the 2020/21 campaign.

Beating Newcastle, West Brom, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Brighton wasn’t enough to secure European football for Arsenal, although the run presented a number of positive points to carry over into the current campaign. Conversely, Arsenal’s start to the 2021/22 season was their worst beginning to a campaign in 67 years.

It’s been slightly better since.

Another interesting note for Sunday’s game is that if Arsenal win by a single goal margin they will be the first side to win five consecutive Premier League matches by a one-goal margin since Birmingham City in November and December 2009.

Victory of any kind would be the first time the Gunners have done the double over the Foxes in six seasons. This fixture ended 1-0 to Brendan Rodgers’ side last term.

This current sequence of wins has seen the side beat Wolves twice, dispatch Brentford at home and see off Watford on the road, and victory bears even more significance given that it is Liverpool who are next up on home soil just three days later.

A daunting run of matches await and building the kind of momentum only achieved once so far in Arteta’s tenure would set Arsenal up brilliantly for the visit of Jurgen Klopp’s title chasers.