‘That’s It’—Mikel Arteta Reveals Arsenal Players’ Response to Wolves Collapse

London — Mikel Arteta has told reporters that the only acceptable response to Arsenal’s last-gasp 2-2 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers is to turn the page immediately, and he insists his squad has already supplied the requisite mentality.

Speaking ahead of Sunday’s north London derby, the Gunners boss praised the “tremendous reaction” he witnessed from players after Tom Edozie’s 95th-minute equaliser denied the league leaders what would have been a seven-point cushion at the summit.

“When you lose points in the last kick of the game again, in a very unpredictable manner … nobody can really understand that,” Arteta said. “But this is football, that’s the beauty of it. That was a chapter. Chapter 27 says, ‘OK, we go, and we go in this manner’.”

The Molineux meltdown continued an alarming 2026 trend. Arsenal have taken maximum points in only three of eight Premier League fixtures since 1 January, conceding 40 per cent of their season’s league goals during that stretch. Dropped points against Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, Brentford and now Wolves have invited Manchester City to trim the gap to as little as two points should they win their game in hand.

Arteta refused to linger on the statistical gloom, instead framing the derby as a reset. “What I’m very interested in is the next one, what we are made of … how we write our own destiny from here going forward. And that’s it.”

The timing, paradoxically, could prove fortuitous. Tottenham, battered by injuries and under new head coach Igor Tudor for the first time, host a rival desperate to channel frustration into conviction. Arsenal have won on each of their last three visits to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium; a fourth consecutive triumph would re-establish breathing room at the top and re-assert psychological dominance ahead of the season’s final push.

With no room for “self-pity,” Arteta’s message was succinct: acknowledge the Wolves setback, accept the unpredictability of the game, and move forward—starting in enemy territory on Sunday.

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