Unai Emery Choses Not To Blame Bernd Leno For Wolves Defeat

Bernd Leno has often been the saviour for Arsenal this season but the 3-1 defeat against Wolves was not his best outing.

The German made some errors in judgement which played a heavy part in the Wanderers’ second and third goals.

Ruben Neves opened the scoring with a wonderful freekick from right outside the box and Matt Doherty collected a second off a contested header.

A simple pass from Jou Moutinho off of a left corner to Jonny Castro and the Spaniard wasted no time to curl a ball into the Gunners box. Instead of holding a solid defence line, the Arsenal players played Doherty onside, who ran in to flick in a delicate header. By the time Leno had decided to come out and clear the ball, it was far too late.

Diogo Jota also made the shot-stopper pay when he dribbled past Laurent Koscielny to drill in a ball with his left. The shot went through Leno’s hands which most felt could have been better dealt with.

“I don’t want to speak about individuals. We need to continue together and not look at one player, defensive or attacking,” Emery told a news conference.

“We need to think to recover our confidence, our good moment. When we were in the worse moments we can recover to take possibilities like we have now.

“In the last two matches we lost good options but the last three matches we are going to play we will play our possibilities.”

Wolves had destroyed and taken apart Arsenal by the end of the first half and it would be foolish to blame Leno for the Gunners’ defeat. The team collectively was simply not their best, with no purpose in their attacks and simply clueless in defence.