**Mikel Arteta**was critical of his players after their 2-1 win over **Wolves**at the Emirates Stadium.
**Arsenal**are still at the top of the Premier League, but they made tough work of their game against the team in 20th position. They struggled for solutions against a 5-3-2 block for more than a hour, and after a **Sam Johnstone**own goal, they allowed the guests to equalise late in the second half. Yerson Mosquera might have handed the Gunners the three points, but scrutiny was still on the performance.
“It was a relief, but a very clear understanding that the margin should have been bigger. After not being precise enough in the first half with the amount of situations we generated inside the opposition box and we didn't pick the right colour of shirt on so many occasions, we had an overload to do that.
“When you have a free metre, normally we put the ball not on target and go, we put it out and time and time and time again, it is frustrating, yeah, but this is the game, but I expect to hit the right colour.
“You have to hit the back post every single time at this level, and today we haven't done it, so we started to make things more difficult for us.
“We had to improve in the second half: I think we did it. We generated more chances, scored a goal, but after we had a period of two or three minutes in deep, totally passive, with horrible defensive habits, that is nowhere near the level that is required against a team that hasn't had a single shot.
*“The first time that they had the opportunity to do it, they scored the goal and this is the Premier League. Unfortunately, we are relieved because we managed to score a goal at the end and go and win it, but we need to improve in that sense for sure.*
“[Scoring a late winner] is something very positive, but I don't put it down sometimes to, yeah, resilience and goal. No, it's what happened before. We should have stopped the source before and that's on us. You have to give credit to Wolves and what they've done.
*“I watched a game when they played at Stamford Bridge, when they played Aston Villa and how unlucky they were not to get a result. I knew that wasn't going to be an easy game at all, but we made it even harder with what we did in the manner that we conceded the goal and that's unacceptable.*
“There were moments we tried without being very, very efficient and probably not as clinical as we should be in defining moments, and I don't think it's on purpose but there were moments in the second half after scoring the goal, but that's not what we want, that's for certain. We have to improve.”