Gritty Gunners bounce back

WHEN Arsene Wenger demanded his Arsenal side kick-start their faltering title challenge at Molineux, their fastest goal in Premier League history and a hard-fought away victory was surely what he had in mind.

They weren’t particularly pretty as they ground out the three points, but the Frenchman will have cared little for style when his side headed with the only prize that really matters, in the shape of three points.

An intimidating home atmosphere was expected, but failed to materialise in the opening stages — largely due to the fact that the game had been widely advertised as an 8pm kick-off, when it in fact began 15 minutes earlier. There were vast empty swathes of seats across the ground