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Arsenal vs Brentford: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head

  • Since losing their first ever Premier League meeting with Brentford in August 2021, Arsenal are now unbeaten in their last seven against the Bees (W5 D2).

  • Brentford are winless in their last seven away games against Arsenal in all competitions (D3 L4), since a 2-0 league win in April 1938.

  • Arsenal have won 10 of their last 12 evening kick-offs (7pm or later) in the Premier League (D2), though their last defeat was in a home London derby match (0-2 v West Ham in December 2023).

  • Brentford have won just one of their last 11 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League games (D3 L7), with that coming in their last such match against Nottingham Forest in May (2-0).

  • Arsenal have won six of their last seven home Premier League matches (D1), including each of the last three in a row. The Gunners haven’t won four consecutively at the Emirates since between April and August 2024.

  • Brentford have won four of their last 23 Premier League London derby matches (D6 L13), with all four of those wins coming against either Crystal Palace (twice in 2024-25) or West Ham (in February and October 2025).

  • Brentford have lost five of their six away Premier League matches this season (W1), the second consecutive season they’ve had five defeats in six on the road at the start of the season (D1 L5 in 2024-25). Before this, the Bees hadn’t done that in a league campaign since 1997-98 (D1 L5).

  • Since the start of May, Brentford have scored the opening goal in more away games than any other Premier League side (7). They won the first two of those games but have since won just one of their last five on the road when going 1-0 up (D1 L3).

  • Eberechi Eze has been involved in six goals in his five home Premier League appearances for Arsenal (4 goals, 2 assists), the joint most goals and assists any Gunners player has managed in their first five home games; the others to get six in their first five are Mesut Özil (2013), Alexis Sánchez (2014), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (2018) and Gabriel Jesus (2022).

  • Igor Thiago has scored four away Premier League goals this season, giving Brentford a 1-0 lead with three of those. The only Bees player to score five away goals in a Premier League season before Christmas was Ivan Toney in 2022-23.

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