Arsenal were embarrassed by a dominant first-half performance by Wolves in their Premier League clash on Wednesday night, and Unai Emery’s side ended up losing the match 3-1.
With Manchester United facing Manchester City and Chelsea dropping points against Burnley, Arsenal had the opportunity to push ahead of both of their top four rivals with a win over Wolves. It didn’t take long for that dream to die though, with a Ruben Neves free-kick, a Matt Doherty header and a Diogo Jota third making it 3-0 by half-time.
Arsenal didn’t really improve much in the second half, Wolves just stopped attacking as often. Late on, Sokratis Papastathopoulos almost sparked a comeback by heading in a Granit Xhaka corner, but a couple of missed chances in the following minutes ensured it wasn’t to be.
Let’s have a look at our individual player ratings for the match.
Forwards
Henrikh Mkhitaryan 2
Mkhitaryan and Iwobi didn’t create one chance in 58 minutes and 71 minutes respectively. Nor did they have a single shot on target between them. They were both dribbled past more than they completed dribbles and neither of them offered anything at all defensively.
Alex Iwobi 2
As above, except Iwobi’s pass accuracy was also the lowest of any of Arsenal’s midfielders and forwards.
Alex Lacazette 4
At 1-0 down, Lacazette had his best moment and his worst moment rolled up into one. He beat a couple of Wolves players to get free in the box for a shot, then fired that shot fantastically high and wide.
The striker couldn’t get involved as much as he would’ve wanted, but did win most of his duels and create a couple of chances. He just never looked like scoring.