Arsenal host QPR in this afternoon’s 5:30pm kick-off, with both teams hoping to pick up all three points for very different reasons:
So here are 10 match facts and stats about you ought to know about the two sides:
1. Arsenal have won three of their last four meetings against QPR 1-0, including both games last season.
2. Harry Redknapp’s side were undefeated in their first six Premier League matches against Arsenal (W2, D4) but have only won one of the next six games (D1, L4).
3. Arsene Wenger’s side have only lost one of their last seven games in all competitions (W5, D1).
4. In the last 17 Boxing Day fixtures, Arsenal have only lost one (W11, D5).
5. Should Arsenal pick up a win today it will be Wenger’s 400th since the Premier League began.
6. Santi Cazorla has been Arsenal’s most productive player in the last five Premier League games, contributing three goals and two assists.
7. QPR have not managed to pick up a point away from home this season (P8, L8).
8. QPR have only scored three goals away from Loftus Road.
9. Redknapp’s side have conceded the opening goal in 13 of their 17 league games this season, more than any other side.
10. Charlie Austin has scored 11 Premier League goals so far this season, more than any other Englishman in the division. However, nine of them have come at Loftus Road.
