Arsenal - Hull City
Arsenal v Hull City: leaders host struggling visitors
Arsenal host Hull City on Saturday afternoon with three points separating them from the top of the table. The home side have won four of their last five recent matches, while Hull arrive in London winless in five and outside the top half.
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Form points one way
Arsenal sit second with 18 points from seven games, three behind Manchester City and two clear of Brighton. A win would lift them to 21 points from eight, level with City's current points total. Their recent run shows four wins from five, the only blip a 0-3 defeat to Brighton in September. Since then they have beaten Leeds, won 3-0 against Lille and edged past Nottingham Forest 1-0.
Hull are ninth on nine points from seven, closer to the relegation places than the top four. They have not won any of their last five, drawing twice and losing three. The most recent was a 1-0 defeat to Fulham. Before that they drew 2-2 with Everton and lost 1-2 to Newcastle, conceding late in both. A win here would take them to 12 points from eight; a defeat leaves them on nine.
History offers no encouragement
The five meetings on record all went Arsenal's way: four wins and one draw, with 15 goals across those matches. The most recent was a 2-0 win in February 2017, part of a sequence that includes 4-1 and 4-0 victories. Hull's only point from those five came in a goalless draw in February 2016. None of the results since then suggests the pattern has shifted.
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