Chelsea won Fulham 3-2 and defeated Brighton 4-3 after the first 2 rounds of the Premier League. Meanwhile, defending champion Arsenal also played impressively when they successively defeated Coventry City and Aston Villa.
Arsenal vs Chelsea is also heated up by a notable confrontation on the coaching bench, where Mikel Arteta will compete with his Spanish compatriot, Xabi Alonso.
Statistics show that Chelsea will face many difficulties against Arsenal:
Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 9 Premier League matches against Chelsea (6 wins, 3 draws). This is the Gunners' best unbeaten streak against The Blues since a 19-match unbeaten streak from 1995 to 2005.
Chelsea have lost to Arsenal in all four recent away matches in the Premier League with a total score of 2-11. Their last victory at the Emirates Stadium was in August 2021, with a score of 2-0.
Arsenal has only lost one of their last 29 London derbies in the Premier League (22 wins, 6 draws) and is unbeaten in their last 16 matches (12 wins, 4 draws). The most recent team with a longer unbeaten streak is Arsenal from August 2022 to November 2023 (17 matches).
Chelsea started the 2026-2027 season with three consecutive wins in all competitions (two in the Premier League, one in the League Cup). The last time The Blues won all four opening matches of the season was in the 2016-2017 season (the first four matches under Antonio Conte) and three opening matches of the Premier League were in the 2018-2019 season (under Maurizio Sarri).
Arsenal have won both of their first two matches in the Premier League this season, but in the last 21 seasons, the Emirates Stadium team has only had one season where they won all 3 of their first matches, which is the 2022-2023 season.
Chelsea's two matches in the Premier League this season have witnessed 12 goals (7 goals, 5 goals conceded), ranking third in number of goals in the first two matches of the season of a team in this league, only behind Arsenal in the 2004-2005 season (13) and Leeds United in the 2020-2021 season (14).
Arsenal continues to clearly show their defensive strength. In the first two rounds of the 2026-2027 season, they faced the fewest shots (11), the fewest shots on target (one) and allowed the opponent to have the lowest expected goal score (xG) (0.54) compared to any other team in the Premier League.
Since the 2022-2023 season, Arsenal has had 16 matches without letting an opponent have a shot on target – double the number of matches of any other team (Liverpool, 8 matches).
Bukayo Saka has scored in both of his last two Premier League matches, the last time he scored more consecutively was in January to February 2024 (five consecutive matches). The most recent player to score in the first three matches of a season was Alexandre Lacazette in the 2020-2021 season.
The Arsenal vs Chelsea match will take place at 10:30 PM on September 6th.
