Arsenal vs Brighton head to head record, all-time results between Premier League sides

Arsenal are aiming to return to the top of the Premier League this weekend, even if just for a few hours.

The Gunners host Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday before leaders Liverpool face an embattled Manchester United at Anfield.

While there are plenty of doom-laden predictions kicking around when it comes to United's prospects on Merseyside, a closely contested encounter in north London would come as no surprise.

Roberto De Zerbi's Albion will take the game to Mikel Arteta's side in their customary manner and have recent success in the fixture to fall back on.

The Sporting News looks at a Premier League game that has proved to be a nuisance to one of English football's traditional heavyweights.

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The overall history of the fixture falls in Arsenal's favour, with the first of their 15 wins coming in a 1935 FA Cup tie.

That remained the only meeting between the clubs until Brighton were promoted to Division One for the 1979/80 campaign. By mid-November in that season, they'd faced each other four more times. Arsenal won the top-flight games 4-0 away and 3-0 at home, repeating the former scoreline in a League Cup replay.

Brighton beat the Gunners at the 10th time of asking at the Goldstone Ground, 2-1 in April 1982, and backed that up with another win at the start of the following season.

However, Albion were relegated at the end of that season and largely disappeared from Arsenal's orbit over the next three decades.

Arsenal won all three FA Cup meetings between the clubs until Brighton earned promotion to the Premier League in 2017. At that point, a one-sided rivalry took an unexpected turn.

A 2-0 win at Emirates Stadium in October 2017 was the sort