Harvey Downes
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Declan Rice is the only Premier League player to have made 50+ club appearances in each of the last four seasons.

Overall, only Bruno Fernandes (210) has played more club games than Rice (203) among Premier League players since the start of 2021-22.
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Think we need a new left back...
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David Raya is set to make his 55th appearance of the season today, the most by an #Arsenal goalkeeper since David Seaman in 1993-94 (57).
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Today will be the first time we’ve started a Premier League game without either of Gabriel or Saliba since losing 5-0 at the Etihad back in August 2021. Ends a run of 148 consecutive league games where at least one of the two has been named in the starting XI.
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Leandro Trossard has made 55 appearances for #Arsenal this season, the most by a player for the club since Kolo Toure in 2003-04 (also 55). The last players to make more were Lee Dixon & Nigel Winterburn in 1994-95 (57 each).
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Saliba made his 100th Premier League appearance today, starting all 100 of those games & completing 90 minutes in 96 of them (subbed off 3 times, 1 red). He’s the first outfield player to start each of his first 100 league games for #Arsenal since William Gallas between 2006-2010
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Declan Rice has scored 4 goals from outside the box this season, the most by an #Arsenal player since Emile Smith Rowe in 2021-22 (also 4), with Alexis Sánchez (6 in 2014-15) being the last player to net more goals from distance for the club in a single campaign.
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Midfield duo Thomas Partey (21/21) & Declan Rice (25/26) misplaced just one pass between them this evening against Real Madrid.
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5-1 v Sporting CP
2-1 v Girona
7-1 v PSV
2-1 v Real Madrid

4 consecutive away wins in the European Cup/Champions League for #Arsenal, just the second time we've achieved this feat, previously doing so back in 2005-06, with the 4th win in that run also coming at Real Madrid.
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#Arsenal are just the 4th side to eliminate Real Madrid from a 2 legged European Cup/Champions League knockout tie by an aggregate margin of 4+ goals:

◎ 1988-89 SF (1-6 v Milan)

◎ 2008-09 Last 16 (0-5 v Liverpool)

◎ 2022-23 SF (1-5 v Man City)

◉ 2024-25 QF (1-5 v Arsenal)
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#Arsenal's Mikel Merino is just the third visiting player in UEFA Champions League history to assist 2 goals against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu after Predrag Djordjevic for Olympiakos in October 2007 & Dusan Tadic for Ajax in March 2019.
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#Arsenal's record when Gabriel Martinelli scores:

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#Arsenal had 12 shots against Real Madrid this evening, 11 of them were on target 🧐 the most Madrid have faced on target in a UEFA Champions League game since November 2013 vs Juventus (12).