Last season runners-up, Arsenal, are in search of their third straight win in the English Premier League campaign when they host Fulham this Saturday at the Emirates in another London derby.
The history books of the encounter favour Arsenal strongly to maintain their 100 per cent record because they have never lost a home league game against the Cottagers in 30 previous encounters.
Fulham are winless in their last 10 games against their London rivals, and have failed to prevent the Gunners scoring since February 2009.
Arsenal also have very differing recent records when it comes to London derbies, with Mikel Arteta’s side unbeaten in the last 13 capital clashes including Monday’s win at Crystal Palace, while the Whites’ 3-0 home loss to Brentford extended their winless run against London rivals to seven.
With all that being said, Fulham are on the brink of winning their opening two away games in a top-flight campaign for the first time at the 29th attempt, having defeated Everton 1-0 on the opening weekend which came before their surprising heavy defeat to the Bees.
Last season saw the newly-promoted side finished in 10th spot, their best season in 11 years which could have been even more eye-catching as they occupied sixth position in February, before Marco Silva’s team fell away in the final few months.
Looking to improve on that, the Portuguese boss has added Wolves pair of Raul Jimenez and Adama Traore to his ranks, as well as Ajax centre-back Calvin Bassey but last week saw club icon Aleksandar Mitrovic departing to Al Hilal for a reported £50 million.
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