LONDON :Mikel Arteta takes charge of his 300th game as Arsenal manager on Saturday boasting a higher win percentage than any of his predecessors who chalked up more than 50 matches, but a familiar danger looms in the shape of West Ham United.

Arsenal have lost only four of their last 42 Premier League home games, but half of those defeats were against West Ham, who on Saturday will try to claim an unlikely victory in north London for the third successive season.

West Ham won 1-0 last season and 2-0 in the campaign before that, odd results considering Arsenal won the corresponding away fixtures 6-0 and 5-2. Those defeats ultimately proved costly to Arsenal's title hopes and with West Ham having a new manager at the helm in Nuno Espirito Santo, Arteta is wary.

"We learned in the last two

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