Nicolas Pepé advanced to the ‘Gunners’, but Rubén Neves and Joao Moutinho came back for the ‘Wolves’.
Arsenal, which after a lousy start to the season had become one of the fittest teams in the last month and a half, He returned to his old ways and lost this Tuesday 2-1 against Wolverhampton, on the 22nd date of the Premier League.
The team led by Mikel Arteta has, this time, the justification that it was left with 9 players after the expulsions of German goalkeeper Bernd Leno and Brazilian defender David Luiz.
The ‘Gunners’ started well and after a first goal by Bukayo Saka canceled by the VAR for offside by the young forward (9), the Ivorian Nicolas Pépé He opened the scoring in a great individual play, with a pipe included on the Portuguese Ruben Neves, after making the wall with Alexandre Lacazette (35).
The problems for the Londoners began just before the break: David Luiz committed a foul inside the box and the ‘Gunners’ did not get rid of double punishment, expulsion of the defense and penalty against, transformed by Portuguese Ruben Neves to reach 1-1 at halftime.
As soon as the second half started, his compatriot Joao Moutinho launched a shell that sneaked into Leno’s goal (49), who in the 72nd minute was sent off for touching the ball with his hand out of the area, which ended up mortgaging the eventual comeback chances for Arsenal.
After this result, Arsenal is in the middle of the table (10th), eight points from the ‘Champions’ zone, while the ‘Wolves’ rise to 13th place.
In the other match played so far, Sheffield United gave themselves new reason to believe in the permanence after beating West Brom, a direct rival (19th) by 2-1.
The bottom of the Premier League, who did not win his first match until last January 12, has added 9 of the 11 points who has in the leaderboard in less than a month and is placed 10 points from salvation.