Sunderland vs Arsenal Preview!!!

Arsenal travel to the Stadium of Light for Saturday’s early kick off, looking to go top of the Premier League – at least temporarily.

Sunderland v Arsenal

Sunderland v Arsenal

Stadium of Light

Premier League

29 November

12.30pm

Arsenal are currently unbeaten in all competitions since the opening day of the season and have won 10 of their last 12 matches.

And David Moyes’s Sunderland are bottom of the Premier League.

The only team in the top seven divisions without a win.

The Black Cats could be without manager David Moyes on the touchline after he was sent off in his side’s 1-0 loss at Southampton on Wednesday

Team news........

Sunderland

John O’Shea, Steven Pienaar and Jermain Defoe are likely to be recalled to the starting XI.

Vito Mannone, Jason Denayer, Lee Cattermole, Jan Kirchhoff, Seb Larsson, Adnan Januzaj and Fabio Borini are expected to miss out once again, but a concrete update will be available following the manager's press conference on Friday.

Arsenal

Per Mertesacker, Santi Cazorla, Danny Welbeck and Lucas Perez are unavailable due to injury. While Granit Xhaka is serving a red card suspension

Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud are back in contention

Past three meetings…

Sunderland 0 Arsenal 0

Premier League, April 2016

Arsenal 3 (Campbell, Ramsey, Giroud) Sunderland 1 (Lens)

Premier League, January 2016

Arsenal 3 (Campbell, Giroud, Ramsey) Sunderland 1 (Giroud OG)

Premier League, December 2015

Form guide…

Sunderland: WLDLLL