Arsenal 2-0 Wolves Player rating and Match Reaction

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Raya 8 - Couple of really good saves, taken him a while to settle in between the sticks but looks like he belongs


White 7 - Solid and Fresh after his summer off


Saliba 6.5 - Uncharacteristically sloppy


Gabriel 6.5 - A bit loose with his passing at times as well


Zinchenko 6 - No glaring errors but made sense to bring him off in favour of someone who brings defensive stability


Partey 7 - Also a bit casual at times but actually looked more at it than he did back end of last season


Rice 7.5 - Shown no real hangover from the Euros


Odegaard 7 - Started well, bit more subdued as game went on


Saka 8.5 - Man of the match, made one, scored one…like Rice…doesn’t look like a player who has hardly had any rest


Havertz 8 - Possibly could and should have scored a second but it’s good to have a forward player who can head in crosses like that


Martinelli 7 - Good pace, as I always say of him needs to stop cutting inside and take the ball to the line and in behind his full back



Subs


Timber 7.5 - Added great solidity at a time when we were under a bit of pressure


Trossard 6.5 - Didn’t really have much time to really impress


Jesus 6 - Only contribution was to give the referee lip and get himself booked



Wasn’t perfect by any means, but we did what we needed to do with two nicely taken goals. Wolves did put us under a bit of pressure in the second half which I think as much as anything stemmed from us being a bit casual in possession in our own third but in the main we mostly kept them to efforts from outside the box.

It’s the kind of result which is satisfying in that in the end it was a comfortable three points, and you know most of these players can play a lot better than they did today (not that anyone played really badly)