Premier League Opta Facts - 14 May
Arsenal v Wigan Athletic
- Wigan need to win this game to realistically avoid relegation to the Championship.
- No FA Cup winning team has ever been relegated in the same season.
- Last season Arsenal lost at home to Wigan in their 34th game, a result which helped the Latics avoid relegation.
- That victory last season is Wigan's only Premier League away win against Arsenal.
- Arsenal have scored more counter attack goals than any other Barclays Premier League team this season (7).
- The Gunners have drawn their last two home games, they have not drawn three in a row within the same season since March-April 2011.
- Arsenal have taken 14 points from their last six games, a total only Chelsea can match.
- Wigan have taken five points from their last six games, only three teams have fewer in this period.
- In the six games before that, Wigan took 10 points.
- Arsenal's last four Premier League games have gone under 2.5 goals with three of them going under 1.5 goals.
- Last season the FA Cup winners lost 4-1 (Chelsea at Liverpool) in their first game after the victory.
Reading v Manchester City
- Reading have won both of their previous Barclays Premier League home games with Manchester City, keeping a clean sheet in both games.
- Overall the Royals have taken nine points from five games against City.
- City have scored 62 goals in 36 games, at this stage last season they had scored 88.
- Man City have won only two of their last seven away Premier League games (D2 L3).
- Reading have allowed the most shots on target in the Premier League this season (219), Man City the fewest (102).
- Man City will end the season with the most clean sheets in the Premier League. Currently they have 17.
- No side has fewer clean sheets this season than Reading (5).
- Last season Manchester City's strikers contributed 54 Premier League goals; this season the total is 36.
- 11 of Reading's 41 goals this season have been scored by substitutes.
- Five of Man City top scorer Edin Dzeko's 13 goals this season have come as a substitute.