Sports EPL: Arsenal vs Leicester City - Key Match Facts & Starting XI

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Arsenal FC will clash with Leicester City on Sunday in a match one could arguably term as the title decider, though it's bit still early for that.

Leicester top the table with 53 points while Arsenal has 48 points at the moment.

Here are key match facts of the clash:

  • Arsenal won September's reverse fixture 5-2, one of only two league defeats suffered by Leicester this season.
  • They are the only team who can complete a league double over the Foxes in 2015-16.
  • Leicester are winless in their last 18 league matches against the Gunners (D6, L12).
  • The Foxes' last win against Arsenal was 2-1 at home in the first Premier League match played between the two sides in November 1994.
  • Half of Alexis Sanchez's six league goals came against Leicester in the reverse fixture
  • Leicester have lost just one of their last 16 Premier League away games (W10, D5).
  • They have won 28 points away from home this season, five more than any other side prior to the weekend fixtures.

Starting Line up:

Arsenal:
  • Cech
  • 24 Bellerín
  • 4 Mertesacker
  • 6 Koscielny
  • 18 Monreal
  • 34 Coquelin
  • 16 Ramsey
  • 15 Oxlade-Chamberlain
  • 11 Özil
  • 17 Sánchez
  • 12 Giroud
Substitutes
  • 13 Ospina
  • 14 Walcott
  • 20 Flamini
  • 21 Chambers
  • 23 Welbeck
  • 28 Campbell
  • 35 Elneny
Leicester
  • 1 Schmeichel
  • 17 Simpson
  • 5 Morgan
  • 6 Huth
  • 28 Fuchs
  • 26 Mahrez
  • 4 Drinkwater
  • 14 Kanté
  • 11 Albrighton
  • 20 Okazaki
  • 9 Vardy
Substitutes
  • 10 King
  • 22 Gray
  • 23 Ulloa
  • 24 Dyer
  • 27 Wasilewski
  • 30 Chilwell
  • 32 Schwarzer
Referee: Martin Atkinson
 

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