Arsenal vs Crystal Palace: Team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats from the Premier League clash

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Ahead of the Premier League's weekend action, Sportsmail will be providing you with team news, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all you need to know as Arsenal host Crystal Palace.

Arsene Wenger has insisted Alexis Sanchez could feature on Saturday against Crystal Palace

Arsenal vs Crystal Palace (The Emirates Stadium)  

Team News 

Arsenal

Arsene Wenger insists Alexis Sanchez could feature against Crystal Palace on Saturday despite the Arsenal manager saying a move to Manchester United is 'likely' to happen.

Sanchez was left out at Bournemouth as his future remains in doubt, but Wenger could bring him back against the Eagles after he trained with the first team on Friday morning as a potential transfer to Old Trafford rumbles on.

Mesut Ozil is available following a knee problem and defenders Laurent Koscielny and Nacho Monreal (both ankle) are also pushing to return but Olivier Giroud (hamstring) is not in contention while Santi Cazorla (Achilles) is a long-term absentee.

Provisional squad: Cech, Ospina, Mertesacker, Holding, Mustafi, Koscielny, Chambers, Monreal, Mavropanos, Debuchy, Bellerin, Nelson, Kolasinac, Maitland-Niles, Wilshere, Xhaka, Elneny, Ramsey, Ozil, Iwobi, Sanchez, Welbeck, Lacazette.

Midfielder Mesut Ozil will be available for Arsenal's game following a knee problem

Crystal Palace

The Eagles were handed a blow this week with the news that Chelsea loanee Ruben Loftus-Cheek is likely to be out for much of the season.

Andros Townsend is closing in on a return to action much quicker than first anticipated, but West Ham a week Tuesday may be a more attainable goal than Arsenal this weekend.

Elsewhere, Jeffrey Schlupp (ankle), Scott Dann, Jason Puncheon and Connor Wickham (all knee) all remain sidelined, while defender Mamadou Sakho (calf) is still not quite ready to return. 

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Speroni, Ward, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Delaney, Tomkins, Van Aanholt, Souare, Wan-Bissaka, Milivojevic, Riedewald, Cabaye, McArthur, Lee, Zaha, Sako, Benteke

Key match stats  

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Arsenal have lost just one of their last 16 matches against Palace in all competitions (W11 D4), a 3-0 defeat in the Premier League last April.

The Eagles haven't won away from home at Arsenal in any competition since October 1994, winning 2-1 at Highbury with a brace from John Salako.

Arsenal have never failed to score in 17 home league games against Crystal Palace, netting 39 goals in total (2.3 per game).

Indeed, the Gunners have scored in each of their last 25 home Premier League games, their longest run since scoring in 29 in a row between April 2007 and November 2008.

After a run of 12 consecutive home Premier League wins, the Gunners have won just one of their last four at the Emirates (D2 L1).

Hector Bellerin's scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career

Meanwhile, after losing eight consecutive away Premier League games, the Eagles are unbeaten in their last five on the road (W2 D3). Only Liverpool (6) are on a current longer run without defeat away from home in the division.

Roy Hodgson has never won an away Premier League London derby (P10 W0 D3 L7), losing each of his last four, with one of those defeats a 4-0 loss at the Emirates in May 2010 as Fulham boss.

Indeed, in three previous trips to the Emirates in the Premier League, Hodgson is yet to see his sides score a single goal (D1 L2) – although his only Premier League visit to Highbury ended in a 3-1 win in December 1997 with Blackburn Rovers.

Hector Bellerin has scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career. The Spaniard has scored or assisted a goal in three of his last five games in the competition, having failed to register a single goal involvement in his first 18 games this season.o Bakary Sako is Crystal Palace's top scorer in all competitions this season (6), and has scored in his last two competitive games. He's not scored in three games in a row in the same season of English football since he was at Wolves in February 2015.