Sunderland vs Arsenal live: Latest team news and line-ups as league leaders face tough test against high-flying hosts

Sunderland are winless in their last 15 Premier League games against Arsenal (D5 L10), since a 1-0 home victory in November 2009.

However, all three of Arsenal’s Premier League defeats against Sunderland have come away from home, and all by a 1-0 scoreline (January 1997, August 2000, November 2009). Indeed, they’ve never conceded more than once in 16 visits to the Black Cats in the competition.

The 25-man squad for November’s fixtures against Serbia and Albania was released on Thursday, with the Arsenal left-back left out having featured in…