Ground: Highbury Stadium

Nickname: Gunners

Manager: Arsene Wenger

Current position: Top

Top scorer: Sylvain Wiltord - 6 (all Premiership)

Last Premiership game: Charlton 0, Arsenal 3 (Henry 44, Wiltord 67, Edu 88).

How they lined up: (4-4-2) Seaman; Luzhny, Campbell, Keown, Cole; Toure (Edu 65), Vieira, Gilberto, Wiltord (Cygan 85); Bergkamp, Henry (Kanu 71). Not used: Shaaban, Jeffers.

What they have said: "Sometimes you have to say 'Hold on, we are up against something really different'. They are the benchmark right now." - Charlton boss Alan Curbishley after Saturday's defeat.

"If Patrick is tired like that for the whole year, I will love it!" - Arsene Wenger on Vieira's Charlton performance after saying he needed a rest.

Last six results: Charlton 0, Arsenal 3; Arsenal 2, Man City 1; Chelsea 1, Arsenal 1; Arsenal 5, West Brom 2; West Ham 2, Arsenal 2, Arsenal 2, Birmingham 0.

Wacky stats: Arsenal have scored 15 goals from 37 on target attempts in their six Premiership games this season; Wanderers have scored six from 31 in five. The Gunners were the first Premiership side to collect 50 cautions last season.

Selection update: No Vieira, of course. He is suspended after being sent off in the Chelsea game - his eighth red card in six years as a Gunner. But Wenger has resources aplenty, including the dynamic Freddie Ljungberg who returned after his summer hip operation with a stunning performance in Tuesday's Champions League defeat of Borussia Dortmund.

How to get there: Rail travellers should bear in mind the West Coast main line hold-ups. By road: From M40 at jct 1, stay on A40. At Paddington turn onto A501. Left onto Baron St, signpost as route for A1. First right White Lion St then left onto A1. At Highbury and Islington roundabout right into St Paul's Rd then left onto A1201. Left into Aubert Park, right into Avenell Road.