«Sheffield United» — «Arsenal» prediction by Tony Okafor. Premier League

General Performance

Arsenals performance these season has currently placed them 3rd on the Premier League table with 14 points but Sheffield Utd is 13th with 9 points showing a very wide margin in performance between the two teams. Arsenal has a current performance rating of 86% while Sheffield Utd has a performance rating of 43%.

Home and away statistics

From Statistics, Sheffield Utd which is playing from Home is on the 18th position in Home winning performance and 6th position in the away winning performance position from the league table this season and Arsenal playing away is on the 2nd position in Home winning performance and 9th position in the away winning performance position from the league table this season. This means that Sheffield Utd from statistics performs better than Arsenal from away match but Arsenal performs far more better than Sheffield Utd from Home position. Therefore, we are expecting an Away win from Arsenal since Sheffield performs very poorly at Home compared to Arsenal's poor Away performance difference.

Head to Head

Taking our statistics from the last 5 matches played by Sheffield Utd and Arsenal, out of the 5 last meetings, Arsenal FC has won Sheffield Utd 4 times with Sheffield Utd winning only one. In 2008 which was the last time the two teams met, Arsenal won Sheffield Utd by 6:0 and in 2007 Arsenal FC won Sheffield Utd by 3:0 in Sheffield Utd home. The other two winnings by Arsenal ended with a score line of 3:0 and 4:2 in the favour of Arsenal FC showing a margin of total defeat by Arsenal. While Sheffield Utd won Arsenal in 2006 with an early goal of 1:0 which they managed to defend until full time.