Mikel Arteta’s men go top of the Premier League – at least until Sunday – with a dramatic home win. Look back with all the Arsenal vs Brentford stats in our Opta match centre.
Arsenal vs Brentford Stats: Post-Match Opta Facts
- Arsenal are only the fourth side to win each of their first eight Premier League games of a calendar year; the previous three all went on to win the title that year (Man Utd in 2009, Liverpool in 2020, Man City in 2021).
- Brentford have lost 13 of their last 17 Premier League games (W3 D1), the most defeats any side has suffered in the division since the first match in this spell on November 12th.
- Arsenal have scored 70 goals in their 28 Premier League games this season, the earliest into a league campaign they have scored 70+ goals since 1963-64 (27th game).
- Arsenal have won eight consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2015 under Arsène Wenger.
- Kai Havertz has scored in four consecutive Premier League appearances, the best run of his career in the competition, netting as many goals in this run (4) as his previous 32 league matches beforehand.
- In his 232nd Premier League appearance, Arsenal’s Declan Rice scored in back-to-back games in the competition for the very first time. He has seven Premier League goals (3) and assists (4) in 2024, as many as he had in the whole of 2023 (6 goals, 1 assist).
- In his 133rd Premier League appearance, Ben White has provided two assists in the same game for the first time, and was the first Arsenal defender to assist twice in a single match in the competition since Héctor Bellerín v Sheffield United in October 2020.
- Yoane Wissa has scored in three consecutive Premier League appearances for the first time in his career. The Brentford striker has now scored exactly seven goals in all three of his Premier League seasons.
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Arsenal vs Brentford Stats Centre
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Arsenal vs Brentford stats from Saturday’s Premier League clash at Emirates Stadium.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own post-match analysis of the game.
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