Can Arsenal Get a Win Against Crystal Palace?
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Stats on there previous meetings
WHAT THE MANAGERS SAY
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "I agree completely that 2018 until now has not been very positive, but I am long enough in the job to know that what is important is how we respond to it and to focus on the performance.
"My personal situation is a bit secondary to all of that, what is important is how the team responds and what we make of 2018.
"We have to very quickly get over this transfer period because, for us especially, this period has been more disturbing than ever. We have such influential players close to the end of their contracts and it has been more destabilising than ever."
Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: "The fact is we're still in a relegation battle. We're not alone now, we're a little bit less isolated than we were some weeks and months ago and we're happy, of course, about that.
"But we're still in a bigger group of teams now who must be aware that unless they can keep their form going, unless they can keep points coming in, unless they can keep performances at the very highest level, they're going to be involved in a scrap to stay in the league right to the end."
Head-to-head
Crystal Palace's only victory in the past 16 league and cup meetings was by 3-0 at Selhurst Park last season (W1, D4, L11).
Palace's sole away league victory at Arsenal was a 2-1 triumph in October 1994, when John Salako scored both of the Eagles' goals.
Arsenal have scored in all 17 home league games against Palace, totally 39 goals - an average of 2.3 per game.
Arsenal
Arsenal are winless in five games in all competitions since they beat Palace in December's reverse fixture.
Arsene Wenger's side have taken only 11 points from the last 27 available to them, winning just twice during this run.
The Gunners have scored in each of their last 25 Premier League home games since a goalless draw against Middlesbrough in October 2016.
They have won only one of their last four games at the Emirates, having been victorious in the previous 12.
Arsenal have conceded 10 goals in their last five league matches.
Crystal Palace
Palace's only defeat in their last 12 league matches came in the reverse fixture against Arsenal last month (W5, D6, L1).
The Eagles could win their opening three league fixtures of a calendar year for the first time since 2002, when they were a second tier side.
They can equal their top-flight club record of six successive away games without defeat.
Roy Hodgson has never won an away Premier League London derby as a manager, losing seven of his previous 10 games, including each of the last four.
Bakary Sako has scored four goals in his last seven appearances in all competitions, having scored just four times in his first 41 matches for Palace.