Match Details:
Date: Saturday, 26 December.
Time:Â 3:45 PM
Location: St. Mary’s Stadium, Southampton, Hampshire
Match Facts:
- Southampton will be loo king to win successive league meetings against Arsenal for the first time since April 1988, after winning 2-0 in their last encounter in January.
- Arsenal have lost one of their last 11 Barclays Premier League matches against Southampton (W6 D4 L1).
- The Gunners have won one of their last six league trips to Southampton (W1 D3 L2).
- Southampton have lost just one of their last seven Boxing Day matches (W3 D3 L1).
- Arsenal have won the most top-flight points away from home in 2015 so far (38).
- Southampton have picked up one point in their last five league matches (D1 L4).
- Saints have never failed to win for six consecutive league matches under Ronald Koeman, last doing so in December 2013 during Mauricio Pochettino’s spell as manager.
- Olivier Giroud has scored in five of Arsenal’s last six BPL away matches.
- Mesut Ozil now has 15 goal assists in the league this term. Only five players have ever managed more in a single BPL campaign.
View the highlights from a previous Arsenal and Southampton face off below.
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