Arsenal are breaking down!

Are Arsenal buckling under pressure? Undisputed leader of the Premier League standings and author of an XXL run in the Champions League, the club coached by Mikel Arteta seemed to be heading towards a historic season. Nothing is lost yet, but last night the Gunners shot themselves in the foot with their trip to bottom of the class Wolverhampton. The Londoners led 2-0 just before the hour mark, temporarily relegating Manchester City to eight lengths. Enough to maintain a comfortable lead in the rankings. And then the incredible happened.

2 wins in 6 matches

After Bueno reduced the score in the 61st minute, Arsenal were caught at the end of added time by a goal from Edozie. 2-2 and there, it’s no longer the same story since City has a game in hand and can theoretically come back to within two units of the Gunners. A terrible end to the match for Gabriel Jesus’ partners who also saw the Brazilian striker lose his temper and attack Yerson Mosquera at the final whistle. An incident which caused a huge altercation between the two teams, including a heated exchange between Riccardo Calafiori and Mateus Mane. These clashes in any case illustrate the palpable tension among the Gunners having won only two of their last six Premier League matches. Are Arsenal ruining the league? For consultant Paul Merson, Arteta’s men took this match at the bottom lightly.

“If Manchester City win all their games from now on, they will win the championship, so yes, it’s disappointing. We can’t play in second gear. You saw, when the score went to 2-2, there was a certain urgency, everyone was running. We can’t play like that. Every game is a cup final until the end. If Arsenal play at a certain pace, Wolves cannot keep up with them. But if they played like they usually do, which is slow and lazy, then the Wolves still stayed in the game. I can’t believe how many times they lost the ball so easily. It was so easy. Instead of dictating the play and drawing Wolves in, I don’t think they were able to string together three or four passes at times in the second half. I’m not going to hide it, the Wolves are not a great team. They had nine points before tonight, so they’re not the sort of team you’d expect to come back from being 2-0 down and draw against Arsenal.”he railed Sky Sports.

The pill is hard to swallow

An observation shared by Bukayo Saka. “I’m disappointed. I don’t have much else to say. There was a big difference between the way we played in the first half and the second half. We lowered our level of play and we were punished for it. It’s time to focus on ourselves, to improve our level and our performance, and that depends on us”he confided on the microphone of the famous show Match of the Day. Questioned after the match, Arteta preferred not to express all his emotions, preferring to contain himself and not charge his players publicly. “It’s very difficult to accept. In the second half we didn’t play as we should have and as we needed to to win a Premier League match. It’s best not to judge, we’re all too emotional. We have to take the blow, because we deserve it”he confided, before continuing.

“In the heat of emotion, it is very easy to say things that can harm the team. Everyone wants to do their best. You have to go through difficult times. Today, at the last minute, we paid the price. We must do much better than what we have done so far. Today we must accept it. We need to be critical of ourselves because it wasn’t enough. In the league, the reality is that we have not been consistent in recent months. We have to get up. When you’re going through a tough time, you have to show how much you want to win and how good you are. You must get up. » Manchester City is still far from having caught up with Arsenal, but the Gunners are increasingly giving the Skyblues the stick to beat.