Wolves defended doggedly (ha) and had a couple dangerous counters. They were pretty good. But it always looked as though we'd find a way through and it came early in the second half, via slick work from Jesus, who backheeled to Vieira (who came on for Xhaka when he went down ill) running towards the endline, and he dinked it across the goalmouth where Odegaard took it off Saka's toes. Nice football. The second came after Martinelli (who had a great second half) stole the ball in their corner, carried it across towards the goal, then backheeled to Zinchenko, who closed and zipped a low cross into the six yard box, blocked out to Martinelli, whose snap shot was saved by Jose Sa, that rebound coming stright to Odegaard twelve yards in front of goal, who had time to take one fine tounc and then curl inside the left post with his favored left foot. This one was even better. Martineli had lost the ball to that defender he chased into the corner and won it back from, by himself. We had a lot of guys in their penalty area. We kept looking for the second goal and it came. Wolves did not look all that bad to me. Maybe the new guy can get them back on track. A slight improvement, in my opinion, would see them pass a few other clubs by March and they might have a comfortable May.
Top of the table. There's been a lot of mention on the TV commentary about Arsenal's phenomenal start and how everyone in this position previously won the league. I'm not buying it. It will be tough. We will lose more League games. We play City twice. But it's a good year to be a Gunner.
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