For the first time in the Premier League history the season will kick off on Friday August 11th when Arsenal will host Leicester City at the Emirates with the game starting at 19:45.
We played our first game against Leicester 125 years ago on January 7th 1895 – back then the teams were known as Leicester Fosse and Woolwich Arsenal, we lost the game 3-1. Overall we have played 124 league games against each other with Arsenal having an overall record of – W58, D38, L28, GF247, GA169.
Woolwich Arsenal 1895 – courtesy Arsenal.com
We have not lost a league game against them for 23 years when Leicester beat us 2-1 at their ground on November 23rd 1994.
Our starting line up then was:
Goalkeeper David Seaman
Defender/Right back Lee Dixon
Defender Steve Bould
Centre back Martin Keown
Centre back Andy Linighan
Left back Nigel Winterburn
Midfielder Jimmy Carter
Midfielder Stefan Schwarz
Midfielder Ian Selley
Forward Paul Dickov
Forward Ian Wright
Ian Wright scored from a penalty in the 19th minute while Leicester’s goals came from Andy Linighan 16′ (og) and David Lowe 28′.
Here is our league record against Leicester for the past 40 seasons.
After our performance against Chelsea in the Community Shield I’m feeling very confident that we will win our opening game to set us on the right track for the season ahead.
Written by GunnerN5
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