Ruben Neves, Matt Doherty and Diogo Jota were on target as Wolves inflicted a second consecutive Premier League defeat on Arsenal.
Match Report
Arsenal's hopes of securing a top-four place were dealt a blow as Wolves cruised to a 3-1 Premier League win at Molineux on Wednesday.
Any thoughts the Gunners would return to winning ways after Sunday's damaging defeat to Crystal Palace were extinguished during a 17-minute spell in the first half, which saw Wolves score three times.
Ruben Neves got them up and running with a glorious free-kick shortly before the half-hour mark, while Matt Doherty and Diogo Jota put the game to bed before the interval after some generous defending from Unai Emery's side.
Defeat leaves Arsenal – who scored a late consolation through Sokratis Papastathopoulos – a point behind fourth-place Chelsea, while Wolves are now one point ahead of Watford in seventh.
Match Events
28' GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Arsenal (Neves)
WHAT A GOAL! WOLVES TAKE THE LEAD! Neves steps up to take the free-kick following the foul on Jonny and the Portuguese midfielder whips a fierce effort over the wall and into bottom left corner of the net and beyond Leno from 25 yards out. 1-0.
37' GOAL! Wolves 2-0 Arsenal (Doherty)
WOLVES DOUBLE THEIR LEAD! Wolves work a short corner down the left-hand side which is delivered expertly into the area by Jonny. The Spaniard’s delivery is met by Doherty who rises highest in the centre of the area to steer his header beyond Leno and into the back of the net. 2-0.
47' GOAL! Wolves 3-0 Arsenal (Jota)
GOAL! Jota makes it three! The away side sloppily lose possession their own half and Jota picks up the loose ball before driving towards the Arsenal goal.
After skipping away from Sokratis, Jota’s low effort from the centre of the box is too powerful for Leno to keep out and the Portuguese attacker’s strike finds the back of the net. 3-0.
80' GOAL! Wolves 3-1 Arsenal (Sokratis)
GOAL! Arsenal pull one back! Xhaka swings in a wonderful corner from the left which is nodded into the back of the net by Sokratis from close range. 3-1.
Abshir47
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No Mustafi still problem
YomiteYomas
682
The gunners attacked the wolves without a bullet and got torn apart
VanishPrasad
542
Life is too short. Don't waste it on being an Arsenal fan
Abshir47
376
They are playing against the Robin Hood of EPL... 😉😉😊
Bobhelsing
361
Wolves has really destroyed so many dreams this season
nuablnps
354
Wolves, the big teams destroyers [Crylaugh]
JuniorGunner•••
314
now they should just depend on the Europa league
thairu_martin
238
I thought Liverpool was going to lift the trophy until I saw this.. [Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
robscoolkays
227
It seems Arsenal and Man U are comfortable with their fifth and sixth positions.......all the best in Europa League next SEASON!
GabrielMaghok
172
It's no wonder that Arsenal was going to lose even without Mustafi at fault.[Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Kunimoruz
97
This Arsenal is just not good to be in the top four. I still think the playing pattern is responsible for their woeful results. They are comfortable backpassing to the goalkeeper even from their opponent's gslf of the field. They are happy holding the ball in their own half earning more ball possession and afraid to shoot at goal.Today they had 67% ball possession, yet they lost by that wide margin. They are too lazy and play slugishly without pace and lose balls carelessly. They have shown to be the most inconsistent team in EPL. Some people are saying should win the Europa league cup so that they can be CL next year/season. The question is, can they beat Valencia? Good luck to them. Emily Amby
Rohcdiopsy
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At the early stages of the season Pep Guardiola said many teams will struggle to get points off Wolverhampton at their home ground, now his words have come to pass. Arsenal have been playing poorly of late except for the fluke against Napoli of course. Food for thought, Emery likely to be given a bounty of approximately £40m for next season, an amount not worthy a player from Barcelona's B team! Agony...
VanishPrasad
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ARSENAL: Thanks Burnley for the draw against Chelsea😁😁😁😁😁 WOLVES : Sarri hold my beer🍾 ARSENAL :😢😢😢😢😢😢
Juneiknrsu
75
Arsenal must replace the lost of form Leno. He had already make many important mistakes and easily gave away goals to the opponents for the few matches. Infact, today all the gifted goals were his mistakes. It is high time Emery should revert to the more experienced Petr Cech, who is a seasoned goalkeeper. He has won EPL titles and Champion League for his former club Chelsea. We need him to marshall the defence for the last 3 matches to make it to top 4.
Mdom
68
When will Arsenal wake up from their slumber. This is what you get when you have mediocres in your team. Flat performance. No drive, no hunger, no aggression. Honestly arsenal look ordinary. Make me to waste my data watching them.
Abdelfattah47
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Wolves Vs BIG six this season : Wolves 1-1 Man City Man United 1-1 Wolves Arsenal 1-1 Wolves Wolves 2-1 Chelsea Spurs 1-3 Wolves Chelsea 1-1 Wolves Wolves 2-1 Man United Wolves 3-0 Arsenal #WolvesAye
JamiuharkanniJ-fresh
49
The status shows below Arsenal lost to cry palace 3-2 Arsenal lost to wolve 3 -1 Arsenal will lose the next match 3-0 Trust me [Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Evans0323
45
Emery is nothing but a big gamble to Arsenal, I don’t see any change in this team, because I don’t see how Arsene Wenger will lose 3 consecutive matches to clubs like Everton, Crystal Palace, Wolves at the same time, Emery has cost all so much this period when we needed him most he always gamble with our matches and later he try to fight hard when we are already losing, the team lack vision passion for the game, no pattern of play, all of them just turning in one circle ⭕️ like a masquerade
Duokmst
44
everyone blaming the manager...what was he supposed to do with trash squad like that?no passion,no fight,no vision,no mission.....side passing,side passing,back pass..gng nowhere...to be honest,I dnt even know what we are going to do in the champions league if we qualify by miracle that is bcz we will see similar score line of10-2...we better give better teams a chance bcz they know what they are dng
Luybmry
36
Unai Emery why don't take correction, stop using mkhi, nkentia and zaka they are better than mkhi, enleny ,and those two failure you used for crystal palace
follower
33
if a soft contact is a freekick, I don't know how these type of referees are qualified for the premier league 🤔
Asap12
9
man u fans be like we are going to miss champions league [Crylaugh]