Arsenal’s head coach Mikel Arteta expressed his disappointment after table-toppers dropped points against the lowest-placed team, Wolves, in the Premier League on Wednesday. The Gunners squandered their 2-0 lead to lose two points as the title race gets more intense.
Declan Rice provided a perfect assist to Bukayo Saka, who scored for Arsenal after a long time, in the fifth minute. Piero Hincapié then scored his maiden goal for Arteta’s team in the 56th minute to give a 2-0 lead to the visitors.
However, Hugo Bueno scored a stellar left-footed goal from outside the box to keep the home team in the contest. Substitute Tom Edozie then scored in the 94th minute to help Wolves share the spoils with Arsenal.
“That’s credit obviously to Wolves, they can’t be underestimated,” Arteta said of the Premier League’s last-place team. “It’s very basic things and simple things that today we did really wrong and that’s why we had the feeling without conceding much, when the game is open that kind of thing can happen.
“Any question, criticism, opinion, you have to take it on the chin today. That’s it. Any bullet, take it because we didn’t perform at the level required, Anything anybody says can be right because we didn’t do what we had to do. The way to do it is on the pitch on Sunday in another great opportunity we have.
“We have always done it but if you are strong you need to show it next time. To say it here is simple, but we have to show it on the pitch.”
The Spaniard coach added they have no one but themselves to blame for the loss against Wolves as they were not up to the mark in the second half.
“Extremely disappointed obviously with the result and with the way the game ended but we have to blame ourselves,” Arteta said. “The performance in the second half we didn’t show anything close to the standards required in this league to win. It’s a moment of disappointment, we want to talk a lot about how we’re feeling but it’s not the moment to do that.
“When you are at this level and at the top you need to take the hit, today we deserved. On Sunday we have a big game coming up.
“It was one moment after another moment after another moment. Even though we scored the second goal we never had dominance of the game that’s the reality.”
Arsenal will next take on Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
