Arsenal vs Chelsea: How to watch Premier League clash – kick-off time, TV channel and team news

London rivals Arsenal and Chelsea go head-to-head to end 2019 with a Premier League blockbuster.

Both struggled on Boxing Day as Arsenal drew with lowly Bournemouth and Chelsea lost at home to Southampton.

Arsenal are now in the bottom half of the table and are in desperate need for points ahead of the New Year.

Chelsea are still hanging onto fourth place but have been in patchy form recently.

Arsenal vs Chelsea: How to watch

The Premier League clash will get underway at 2pm on Sunday, December 29.

The game is being broadcast on Sky Sports Premier League at 1pm and on Sky Sports Main Event from 2:30pm.

Sky Sports customers can live stream this via the app using their mobile, tablet or computer devices.

If not, you can purchase a Sky Sports Day Pass from NowTV for £8.99.

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Arsenal vs Chelsea: What has been said?

Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta: “We need to attack better, to concede less on the counter-attack, to defend better and prepare a good training session for them to improve.

“I don’t look at the games [coming up] against Chelsea or [Manchester] United – it’s now. At the moment the urgency is now. And we need an impact now.”

Chelsea head coach Frank Lampard: “I know we’ve got a lot of work to do.

“It doesn’t surprise me some of the results we’ve had but we’ve got to be brutal with ourselves and say ‘it’s all well and good beating Tottenham and feeling on top of the world but we need to reproduce in different ways and against different opposition’.”

Arsenal vs Chelsea: Team news

Arsenal will welcome back Calum Chambers from suspension for the visit of London rivals Chelsea.

The defender missed the Boxing Day draw at Bournemouth having picked up his fifth top-flight booking of the season.

Gabriel Martinelli will be assessed on the hamstring injury which kept him sidelined at the Vitality Stadium but Rob Holding, Sead Kolasinac and Kieran Tierney are absent.

Chelsea full-backs Marcos Alonso and Reece James will need last-minute fitness checks.

Frank Lampard will likely rotate his resources again with Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic possibly restored to the starting line-up.

Arsenal vs Chelsea: Match stats

Arsenal have won two of their last three Premier League home games against Chelsea (D1), as many as they had in their previous 12 against the Blues (D5 L5).
Chelsea lost this exact fixture 0-2 in January – they’ve not lost consecutive league games against Arsenal since October 2011, while they last lost back-to-back away league games against them in October 2003 (a run of three).
Arsenal have never lost a Premier League home game against Chelsea when they’ve scored the first goal, winning 11 and drawing four of their 15 such games.
Arsenal lost their final league game of 2018, 1-5 against Liverpool. They’ve not lost their last league game in consecutive calendar years since 1994/1995 (vs QPR and Wimbledon).
Chelsea have only lost their final league game in one of the last 16 calendar years (W11 D4), going down 1-3 at home to Aston Villa in 2011.
Arsenal have lost their last two Premier League home games, against Brighton and Manchester City. They last lost three in a row at home in the top-flight back in March 1977.
In all competitions, Arsenal have conceded at least twice in each of their last four home games, their longest such run since December 1965 (a run of five).
None of Chelsea’s nine away league games this season have ended level (W6 L3), with only Liverpool having won more games on the road in the Premier League this season than the Blues.
Chelsea have lost three Premier League games in December this year – the last time they lost four top-flight games in a single calendar month was back in October 1993.
28 of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s 44 Premier League goals for Arsenal have been scored on Sundays, the highest ratio of any player with at least 40 goals in the competition.

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