After seeing us draw at Wolves, Mikel Arteta admitted that our second-half display cost us dear at Molineux.
We were 2-0 ahead against the Old Gold thanks to goals from Bukayo Saka and Piero Hincapie, but the home side fought back with a stunner from Hugo Bueno before a late goal from Tom Edozie saw two points slip away.
And Mikel felt that our performance after the break proved costly as we allowed our opponents back into the game to battle hard for a point.
“We’re very disappointed with the end result, but I think we have to fault ourselves,” Mikel said. “I think the performance in the second half doesn’t show the level and the standards required in the Premier League to win in the manner that we should have won the game, especially in the way that we played in the first half.
“It’s very tough, we are frustrated because it’s down to us. It’s time to talk on the pitch because anything that we say right now comes from anger, frustration, disappointment, and there’s nothing coming through that is going to benefit and help the team going forward.
“It’s nothing to do with attitude or with desire. There were a lot of things that went wrong in the second half that didn’t allow us to have any dominance, even though we scored the second goal. We never felt that we were in control of the game.”
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Attention now turns to Sunday’s north London derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and a chance to get back to winning ways in the Premier League.
Mikel is keen to allow the dust to settle after this one before urging his squad to bounce back by getting the victory we crave against our old rivals
“We need to improve, pick ourselves up, bring the energy back,” he added. “Now we have a great game on Sunday to show that.
“I think we owe ourselves that one after what we’ve done today in the second half. I think we need some time, a few hours to digest. This one has to be a really, really painful one and we use it in the right way to improve.”
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