Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday, in a disappointing result despite coming back from behind late on.

There’s no denying that things could have been much worse in the end. Bernd Leno’s heroics first kept Arsenal in the game, then prevented Wolves regaining the lead in the latter stages.

However, in truth, those chances only came about as the Gunners threw everyone forward in search of a winner. Wolves created very little before the last 10 minutes.

The problem was that Arsenal conceded a soft goal and then couldn’t break their opponents down for most of the 90 minutes, not that they conceded a couple of chances at the end.

Let’s have a look at our individual player ratings for the match.

Goalkeeper and Defence

Bernd Leno 9

Leno had an excellent game, making crucial saves and playing the ball out from the back with 95% accuracy. Arsenal could easily have lost this one without him, but winning points you could and should have lost is exactly what you want from your goalkeeper.

Hector Bellerin 6.5

Bellerin wasn’t perfect, and he was dispossessed too often, but he still did pretty well with very little help from his teammates. Alex Iwobi spent too much time helping out in the middle before he went off, and no one spent much time on the right afterwards.

Two of Arsenal’s best chances fell to the Spaniard’s left foot, which was pretty unfortunate. His technique wasn’t terrible for a full-back on his weaker side, but he couldn’t get either on target. He did create Arsenal’s best chance of the match though, a sitter which Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang somehow managed to miss.

Shkodran Mustafi 6

Mustafi and Holding had pretty contrasting matches, where they only did about half of their job. Mustafi’s defensive work was pretty solid, but his bizarre attempts at long passes forward gave away possession far too often.

Rob Holding 5.5

Meanwhile, Holding let opponents in on goal too often, but he did well enough on the ball.

He might be feeling the effects of having played so many matches for Arsenal recently, only missing one game in almost two months since coming into the team. The international break is certainly welcome in that regard.

Sead Kolasinac 4.5

In fairness to Kolasinac, the circumstances of this match weren’t great. Only recently back from injury after months out, and with no support from Aubameyang up against some pacy counter attacks, it was always going to be a difficult game.

That said, he really underperformed in this one. The most notable problem was in the air, where he won just 22%(!) of his aerial duels.

Things weren’t too much better on the ground though, with one tackle, no interceptions and no clearances. He didn’t make any chances at the other end either. Let’s hope this was a one-off as he fully adjusts to Emery’s style.

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Midfield

Lucas Torreira 7

Once again, Torreira seemed to be everywhere defensively, snuffing out counter attacks before they could even get going. He had a decent shot at one point too. His passing was solid, if unexciting.

Granit Xhaka 5.5

Xhaka was partly to blame for Wolves’ goal, which made the whole match a lot easier for the away side. In his defence, the pass to him was poor enough that he could be entitled to believe it was intended for someone else. Nonetheless, a major error.

In the second half, the Swiss international improved, as his passing was accurate and effective as it so often is. He had to deal with playing out of position at the end once again as well. Arsenal need Nacho Monreal back badly right now.

Mesut Özil 6

Özil probably just had too much to do on this occasion, as Wolves gave him absolutely no space to work with and Aubameyang and Iwobi offered very little as outlets in front of him.

As a result, he struggled to make much happen, though did somehow still create more chances than anyone else on the team.

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Forwards

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 5

Aubameyang offered so little as a winger that it ended up disrupting the entire team as Özil and Iwobi moved over to try and help. He looked better in the second half playing a little more centrally until he missed a sitter of a chance that absolutely had to go in.

There’s little point starting the striker unless it’s in the middle. He was so much more effective earlier in the season as an impact substitute.

Alex Iwobi 5

Iwobi had a couple of bad moments in the first half, particularly when it came to linking up with Bellerin, which he struggled to do. He was at least trying to drive at Wolves and, in his defence, it’s been clear for weeks that he’s much more effective on the left-hand side of the pitch.

The half-time substitution was probably a mix of a tactical and performance-based change.

Alexandre Lacazette 6.5

Lacazette didn’t have as many chances as he would’ve liked, mostly thanks to those behind him. He worked hard, tracked back well, and had one good chance well blocked. A decent performance, but not quite enough.

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Substitutes

Matteo Guendouzi 6

Guendouzi did a fairly solid job coming on in the second half. His main influence was purely in allowing Arsenal to play a different system, and he didn’t do anything too flashy in possession. Perhaps he could’ve done more to protect the defence from counter attacks late on, but he wasn’t the only one.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan 6.5

You can call Mkhitaryan’s goal ‘luck’ if you like, but he put a really dangerous ball in and there’s always a chance a cross like that ends up in the net. Whether he meant it or not, he made the difference and won Arsenal a point. On the other side of things, that was his only cross that caused any problems, with the rest failing to find their targets.

Aaron Ramsey 6

If Mkhitaryan’s goal was lucky, the fact Ramsey got an assist for it was even luckier. I’m sure he’ll take it though. At least he wasn’t trying bizarre flicks like on Thursday, and this was a more solid cameo, even if it wasn’t particularly impressive.