Diogo Jota aims to continue Arsenal scoring streak to make LFC history

StatsDiogo Jota aims to continue Arsenal scoring streak to make LFC history

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Diogo Jota is aiming to become the first Liverpool player to score in five successive league meetings with Arsenal on Sunday.

The Portuguese forward has found the back of the net an impressive seven times in seven games against the Gunners in his career to date – and scored against Mikel Arteta's outfit on his Reds debut in September 2020.

Read on for more facts and figures ahead of the Premier League encounter...

Liverpool have secured a league double over Arsenal in each of the last two seasons.

They have won 25 Premier League meetings between the two sides while Arsenal have won 16 and there have been 19 draws in total. At Arsenal, in this era, the Reds have won nine of 30 visits with 11 draws and 10 defeats.

There have been 55 goals scored in the last 13 league clashes, with Liverpool providing 39 of those.

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Just one goalless draw has occurred in the last 46 league encounters between the teams, which came at Emirates Stadium in 2015.

Across all Premier League meetings, 175 goals have been scored – the most in any Liverpool fixture in the competition.

The Reds have kept six clean sheets in a row against Arsenal in all games, not conceding in 605 minutes (10 hours and five minutes) since Alexandre Lacazette's effort at Anfield in September 2020.

Jordan Henderson is in line to make his 550th career club appearance while Joe Gomez is one match short of recording 150 for Liverpool.

If he scores, Roberto Firmino will become the Reds' highest league scorer against Arsenal in history with what would be his 10th strike.

Jürgen Klopp has lost one of his 13 Premier League games against Arsenal, with nine wins and three draws in that time. He has lost just one of 18 matches against them in all competitions in normal time.

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