Arsenal\u2019s season has been defined by a defence operating at an exceptional level. Their set-piece prowess has drawn attention, but it is the near-impenetrability at the back that stands out: the side have conceded only three goals in all competitions this season, those strikes coming from Dominik Szoboszlai, Erling Haaland and Nick Woltemade.<\/p>\n
A midweek Champions League shutout in Czechia \u2014 a 3\u20130 win over Slavia Prague \u2014 extended Arsenal\u2019s winning streak to 10 matches in all competitions and pushed their clean-sheet run to eight successive victories. They have recorded wins to nil against Olympiacos, West Ham United, Fulham, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, Crystal Palace, Brighton & Hove Albion, Burnley and Slavia Prague during the sequence.<\/p>\n
That eighth consecutive win without conceding matched the longest such run by any English top-flight club, according to Opta. Preston North End achieved the mark in 1889 and Liverpool did so in 1920. No English side had repeated the feat within the last 100 years until Arsenal reached it in 2025.<\/p>\n
If Arsenal win and keep another clean sheet away at Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday they will set a new chapter in that history. That task is far from simple: Sunderland have scored in all their home games this season and sit fourth in the table. Still, a shutout would bring Arsenal closer to making that historical claim a reality.<\/p>\n
On domestic clean sheets specifically, Mikel Arteta\u2019s men are on a run of four successive league shutouts. The Premier League record is held by Manchester United, who managed 14 straight league clean sheets in 2008\u201309. Across all competitions Liverpool\u2019s 11-game streak under Rafa Ben\u00edtez in 2005 remains the benchmark.<\/p>\n
Arsenal have conceded three goals in their 10 Premier League matches to date and are on course to challenge the record for fewest allowed in a season. Chelsea conceded 15 in 2004\u201305, breaking a previous low of 17 set by Arsenal in 1998\u201399.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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