Wolves manager Gary O’Neil maintains that his team gave a good account of themselves in their match against Arsenal today.
Wolves visited the Emirates for their opening game of the Premier League 2024/25 season. Known for its challenging atmosphere, the Emirates Stadium proved difficult for the visitors.
Arsenal dominated the match, taking two of their chances to secure a 2-0 victory. The game was largely one-sided, with the scoreline reflecting Arsenal’s strong performance, which arguably could have seen them win by an even greater margin.
Despite the result, O’Neil praised his team’s effort, asserting that they performed well despite what the final score suggests.
He said to the BBC:
“I thought we were good. I was pleased. I obviously don’t like losing but we gave Arsenal a tough game. We restricted them to not too many chances.
“In terms of being in the game and having a chance I felt that, at 1-0 down I felt we were more likely than them.
“Pleased with what we were able to produce, but I’ve spoken to the players about the little details, especially against teams like Arsenal.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
We had a good match and secured all three points, which is far more important than anything else.
The boys know this is just the beginning, and we expect them to do much better as the season continues.
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Fair play to Wolves. I’ve always respected Gary O’Neil and you could see how well organized and managed his team was today. They did play hard and made it more difficult for us than you would perhaps expect. We could have played better but Wolves deserved a good deal of the credit for that not happening.
The second half was intense as Wovels put a lot of pressure on our narrow lead. However, thanks to a quick take of the free kick, Saka ensured that we were home and dry.
Arsenal has one of the best records at home against Wolves of any fixture for any club in the PL. While you can never take any result for granted of course, I think it’s safe to say that given Arsenal’s clear title ambitions in 2024-25, it would have been a major disappointment if we had come away with less than the 3 points yesterday.
I thought we played reasonably well – two good goals but Arsenal needed that excellent save from Raya to prevent an equaliser when leading 1:0. The points are the main consideration though and Arsenal deserved them all.
However, the next game against Villa will surely be a far better (very early) test of Arsenal’s title credentials. Emery has done wonders at Villa in my opinion turning around the club from a bottom four to a top four position in a short time while not spending a lot of money (the owners must love him!). If Arsenal can get all the points there then that will be a good result.
Well they’ve been spending maybe you didn’t notice. They’ve spend heavily in the last two seasons…..