Goals from Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard put us two objectives to the great inside 13 minutes towards Wolves, and though we had been unable so as to add to our tally after that, Mikel Arteta was delighted with what he noticed from his workforce.
Despite our dominance, and racking up 19 photographs, we needed to see out some nervy moments late on, when Wolves pulled a objective again earlier than eight minutes of injury-time.
After the ultimate whistle Arteta admitted he was a relieved man, however noticed lots to be optimistic about as effectively.
“Yeah, I’m very happy, I think the team was excellent again today,” he mentioned. “The approach we performed, the best way we competed, we seemed an actual risk. Going forwards, we created so many probabilities and openings, we scored two lovely objectives, and it may have been three or 4.
“But it wasn’t, and in the second half as well, we had some big chances to put the game to bed and we didn’t. And we gave them something around the box, they took it and that’s the Premier League, game on.”
Saka’s opener – on six minutes – was the earliest objective we’ve got scored this season, and was additionally our a centesimal strike of 2023. Only Manchester City, Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich in Europe’s high 5 leagues have additionally hit three figures this calendar yr. The supervisor mentioned he’s additionally happy that our 100 objectives have been shared between 21 totally different gamers.
“Yes and they all want to do that,” he mentioned. “The contribution has to come from all over the pitch, and when you see them interacting, and changing positions, and opening gaps, and their relationships are getting better and better. Today, I think it was very fluid.”
The boss completed by giving an update on Takehiro Tomiyasu, who was taken off within the second half, showing to carry his calf.
“We have to check him, he was a bit fatigued, and we decided to take him off. So, he’ll get assessed but hopefully he’ll be fine.”
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