A third game in a week sees Arsenal return to [Premier League](/topic/premier-league) action against Wolves tonight. The Gunners saw their lead at the summit cut to two points after their unbeaten run was ended by Aston Villa seven days ago, though they did bounce back in midweek with victory over Club Brugge in the Champions League and are now expected to swat away the division's bottom side.
Mikel Arteta was rather coy in yesterday's pre-match press conference regarding fitness updates on Declan Rice, William Saliba, Jurrien Timber and Leandro Trossard. The quartet do feature with the former trio named in the starting XI in a massive boost. However, Gabriel, Cristhian Mosquera, Kai Havertz and Max Dowman are all ruled out for the league leaders.
The visitors, meanwhile, are remarkably still without a league win this season and have lost their last eight games in a row, scoring just once during this difficult period. Follow Arsenal vs Wolves LIVE below with **Standard Sport's** dedicated match blog, featuring expert insight and analysis from Simon Collings at the Emirates Stadium!
**46 min**: No changes for either side at the break. You would expect Arsenal to step things up in the second half.
Back underway in north London.
Against Aston Villa last weekend, Mikel Arteta did not hang around with his substitutions as he sent on Viktor Gyokeres and Leandro Trossard at the start of the second half.
Those changes resulted in an immediate impact, so more of the same tonight?
Arsenal didn’t create all that much in the first-half, but should Gabriel Martinelli do better with this chance?
Goalless at the break as Gunners frustrated by the division’s bottom side.
**45+2 min**: Arsenal, off the pace so far, have a free-kick but Rice’s cross is dealt with by Johnstone before Wolves clear and build an attack where Larsen has a shot blocked by Hincapie.
**45 min:** Board goes up to signal four minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half.
**43 min:** Eze and Martinelli send in crosses but Wolves deal with both deliveries very comfortably in quick succession.
**40 min:** Arsenal just forcing it a little bit as Zubimendi plays an aimless pass out of play. He was looking for the run of Saka but the ball had to be inch perfect - and it wasn’t.
**37 min**: Every Wolves player back behind the ball as they continue to frustrate Arsenal by closing off the spaces.
Saka does well to flash a ball in across the face off goal but Gyokeres can’t make contact before Martinelli forces a corner from which he pokes another attempt wide.
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