Trossard and Odegaard send Arsenal back top of the table
WOLVES 0 ARSENAL 2
LEANDRO TROSSARD shot Arsenal back to the top of the Premier League table to justify manager Mikel Arteta’s selection shake-up.
The Belgium international was recalled to the starting line-up along with Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus and it was Arteta’s dynamic duo who combined to make the difference in an otherwise unmemorable match.
Captain Martin Odegaard added a late, late second but the match was well won by then.
Arsenal simply had to win after last week’s surprise home defeat by Aston Villa and midweek Champions League exit away to Bayern Munich.
Win again against Chelsea on Tuesday and they will be four points clear before defending champions Manchester City play the first of their two games in hand, away to Brighton.
With five games to go for Arteta and his men, maybe this title race will go all the way after all.
Trossard scored right at the end of a first half in which Wolves more than held their own. Arsenal had all the early running and half-decent chances for Declan Rice and Trossard, but it was a dogged Wolves side that went closest to taking the lead.
Brazil midfielder Joao Gomes dispossessed the recalled Jakub Kiwior wide on the left and cut in to blast a shot from close range which David Raya saved superbly, with the help of the woodwork, at his near post.
The match was played in a lively atmosphere, largely thanks to the very excited home supporters, but they were outraged when referee Paul Tierney entered the fray with a booking for captain Max Kilman for a foul on Kai Havertz, moments before Declan Rice was cautioned for a foul on Hugo Bueno.
Replay on the press box monitors indicated they should have thanked the ref for not sending Kilman off for a ruthlessly dangerous tackle.
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