Wigan need to win this game to realistically avoid relegation to the Championship.
No FA Cup winning team has ever been relegated in the same season.
Last season Arsenal lost at home to Wigan in their 34th game, a result which helped the Latics avoid relegation.
That victory last season is Wigan's only Premier League away win against Arsenal.
Arsenal have scored more counter attack goals than any other Barclays Premier League team this season (7).
The Gunners have drawn their last two home games, they have not drawn three in a row within the same season since March-April 2011.
Arsenal have taken 14 points from their last six games, a total only Chelsea can match.
Wigan have taken five points from their last six games, only three teams have fewer in this period.
In the six games before that, Wigan took 10 points.
Arsenal's last four Premier League games have gone under 2.5 goals with three of them going under 1.5 goals.
Last season the FA Cup winners lost 4-1 (Chelsea at Liverpool) in their first game after the victory.
Reading v Manchester City
Reading have won both of their previous Barclays Premier League home games with Manchester City, keeping a clean sheet in both games.
Overall the Royals have taken nine points from five games against City.
City have scored 62 goals in 36 games, at this stage last season they had scored 88.
Man City have won only two of their last seven away Premier League games (D2 L3).
Reading have allowed the most shots on target in the Premier League this season (219), Man City the fewest (102).
Man City will end the season with the most clean sheets in the Premier League. Currently they have 17.
No side has fewer clean sheets this season than Reading (5).
Last season Manchester City's strikers contributed 54 Premier League goals; this season the total is 36.
11 of Reading's 41 goals this season have been scored by substitutes.
Five of Man City top scorer Edin Dzeko's 13 goals this season have come as a substitute.
