Cesc Fabregas has warned the Arsenal fans not to get too carried away by the team’s start to the season and is predicting a tough test at Sunderland (9/2 – 90 minutes) on Saturday.

The north London outfit have made a flying start to their domestic and European campaigns, winning three of their first four matches in the Premier League.

Last Saturday’s 4-1 victory over Bolton took the Gunners’ goal tally to 13 for the season but turned out to be just the appetiser before Tuesday’s goal-fest against Braga.

The Portuguese side headed to the capital with high expectations they would give Arsenal a real test in their first Champions League group match.

However, they proved to be no match for Arsenal, who ran out 6-0 winners as they made it 16 goals scored in their first three home games.

Arsenal (10/1 Champions League outright) now head to Sunderland for Saturday’s tea time kick-off looking to leapfrog Chelsea (9/2) and go to the top of the league for at least 24 hours.

The Gunners don’t have a great recent record at the Stadium of Light having drawn and lost on their last two visits to Wearside.

Despite those results Arsenal will be expected to turn over the Black Cats, although Fabregas says it will require another great display if they are to take all three points off their north-east opponents.

“I am not going to read too much into our beating both Blackburn and Bolton – in previous years we might have done the same thing before collapsing against the big sides, so it’s best that we just keep going, keep improving and keep making things difficult for whoever we face,” the Arsenal captain said.

“On Saturday, that will be Sunderland, which is always a very difficult place to go.

“Last season we didn’t do well at the Stadium of Light, but it was straight after an international break and we were perhaps a bit tired, so we hope for better this time.”

Having failed to collect any silverware in the last five years the Gunners are desperate to get their hands on something this season.

Much like last season Arsenal (4/1 Premier League outright) have made a good start to the campaign and already the Emirates faithful are buzzing over the possibility of a trophy this year.

However, Fabregas is reluctant to look too far ahead and states that while it is great the team have made such a good start they need to be able to maintain their current form for the majority of the season otherwise all their hard work will be wasted.

Fabregas continued: “We are happy with 10 points from four Premier League games.

“We would have preferred 12, but we are up there, we are second, and now we need to guard against losing more points because we will need everything we can get at the end of the season.”

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