Arsenal Analysed: 5 reasons we won against Wolves

Bukayo Saka scores against WolvesThree points on the opening day is all any manager wants, and Mikel Arteta got just that with a 2-0 success against Wolves, but there were many other things about our performance that would have pleased him.

Our resident expert Adrian Clarke has digested all the footage again and poured through the stats to uncover five reasons why we managed to collect our first three-point haul of the campaign:

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Set pieces don’t always have to be crosses whipped into the danger zone, and the Gunners showed the value of quick thinking from dead-ball situations too. Throughout the game we regularly got play going by taking a short free kick, or by catching Wolves…