An injury time goal helped us defeat Wolves 2-1 on a dramatic evening at Emirates Stadium to help us stay top of the Premier League table.
A Sam Johnstone own goal had given us the lead before Tolu Arokodare looked to have snatched a draw. But Bukayo Saka's inch-perfect cross was deflected into his own net by Yerson Mosquera to give us the victory.
Adrian Clarke has rewatched the action and dipped into the stats to highlight some of the standout moments and displays:
FAR POST CORNERS TROUBLED WOLVES
Ending a run of 11 successive Premier League goals from open play, Arsenal’s focus on quality set-piece deliveries reaped its rewards once again.
It has been a frustrating first 69 minutes, but Bukayo Saka’s swerving, dipping left-footed corner helped us make the all-important breakthrough.
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Keeper Sam Johnstone may have been a little distracted by three far post runners who moved across him while the ball was in flight, but it was the nature of Saka’s delivery which caused the Wolves stopper the most problems.
Whipped in at pace, with a devilish amount of spin on the ball, he was helpless when the ball ricocheted off the post, onto his back and over the goal line.
The Gunners could have taken the lead in the first half when a very similar far-post corner from Declan Rice.
On that occasion, every defender had been drawn towards the middle of the goal by our runners, leaving Gabriel Martinelli unmarked.
Unfortunately, the winger could not get it right, looping his header wide of the goal.
RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR SETBACK
Whilst the team may not have hit their usual high standards set this season, Mikel Arteta’s side did show great character to bounce back from the blow of conceding an equaliser with just six seconds left to play of normal time.
As Wolves sought an equaliser, the visitors, who have made more successful crosses in open play than anyone this season, pinned us back and put balls into the danger zone.
As you can see from this action area map, Rob Edwards’ side were able to gain territory in the final five minutes. Across the whole match, just 18 per cent was played in our final third with Wolves having only 30.8 per cent of possession.
Yet from the 85th minute onwards the visitors had 69.8% of the ball, with 35.3 per cent of the game played out inside our defensive third.
When Tolu Arokodare headed home, it sent shockwaves around Emirates Stadium, but the players responded well to the pressure and got the win.
Bouncing back in the way that we did showed our character.
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SAKA’S SPECIAL DELIVERIES
The precision of Bukayo Saka’s left boot earned us the win as his fabulous cross could turn out to be priceless in the context of this season.
It came at a time where we produced an overload creating a 4v3 or 3v2 inside the box for Saka to aim at.
Gabriel Jesus was in the right place at the right time, and even though the Brazilian did not score himself, his presence forced the own goal by Yerson Mosquera.
Saka, our starting captain, was at the forefront of most of our best work against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Completing four of five attempted dribbles, he carried the ball beautifully, making three chances.
Remarkably, Saka also won 11 out of 11 duels in his man of the match performance.
STRONG DISPLAY FROM HINCAPIE
He may have been unable to prevent Arokodare from heading the ball past David Raya late on, but that should not distract from another forceful performance by Hincapie.
Starting at left back but moving infield to a left-sided centre back position early on, the Ecuadorian was our most dominant defensive presence.
While the Gunners may not have had to withstand huge swathes of pressure, Hincapie was always at the forefront of winning the ball back for the side.
His distribution was also excellent, completing 71 of 74 passes.
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SOLVING PROBLEMS
This proved to be a more awkward test that many expected, with Wolves’ low block effective in nullifying our attacking threat.
On reflection our passing was perhaps a little too safe, and slow in its application.
Just 28 of our 572 passes were long for example, pointing towards a lack of variety and there was a shortfall in dynamic movement inside the opposition half too.
This allowed our opponents to get settled in their 5-3-1-1 shape and not get pulled out of position often enough.
Declan Rice was arguably our best player from half-time onwards, and part of that was down to his drive to get the team moving forward at a greater tempo.
This example, from our first shot on target in the match shows the kind of patterns which were needed to pull Wolves apart.
Leandro Trossard draws two defenders towards him, Myles Lewis-Skelly makes a clever angled run to take a turquoise shirt away, leaving Rice free to receive a crisp pass.
Seconds later he cracked a fierce curling drive towards goal that produced a magnificent save from Sam Johnstone.
With a full week’s training ahead, these are the kind of patterns of play the side will potentially work on ahead of a first ever visit to Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium.
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