Dave Edwards: Wolves must fix late goal problem after painful Arsenal defeat

Everyone had written Wolves off but Rob Edwards and his team had to approach it in the right way and devise a plan to get something out of it, regardless of how minimal the chances of success are, and they did that almost perfectly.

Bar the late goal, the game plan worked a treat. They defended a little bit deeper at times, were very compact, not allowing the opposition to play through the middle of you and force them out wide, and then when they did get into the wide areas, defend the crosses.

The worry has been how do we transition from that to start making chances? But the Emirates was never going to be the place to try and do that.

You've got to wait for moments and those moments did come. Hwang had a very good chance, but it was also very tough. He's got five Arsenal players bearing down on him from behind. 

During his run for that chance, his touches were pretty perfect all the way. When you're running like that and you're trying to get away, it's so easy to start to zigzag by accident, but his touch was really good all the way.

Maybe at the very last moment, he could have come infield a little bit just to try and get across the Arsenal defenders and get more central in the goal. But after a run that long, it's always hard to generate the power in the shot.

We had other moments as well through Jorgen Strand Larsen and Joao Gomes, showing the game plan was working, and it was so unfortunate to get done with an unusual goal.

We know Arsenal are good at set-pieces, we defended them so well all game, but Sam Johnstone gets a little nudge in his back and he doesn't get enough of his hand on it. For it to then hit him on the back is agonising.

At that point, you expect Wolves to capitulate but the substitutions Edwards made were very good, proactive and forced Arsenal back.

Jackson Tchatchoua's pace and fresh legs in Tolu Arokodare helped, while Fer Lopez made a real difference on the ball.

Mateus Mane makes a difference with his assist too after a good spell. Wolves got their reward, to absolute jubilation - the cushions were flying around my living room with me and my son absolutely buzzing.

It should have been enough for a point, but Wolves got the simple things wrong again. Lopez did well when he came on but he allowed the cross to come in too easily, while Yerson Mosquera will also be disappointing with his role in the own goal.

His defensive positioning has to be better. Gabriel Jesus is never going to get above Mosquera, so to allow him to get in front of you is a cardinal sin in that moment.

It's then really hard for Mosquera to react and he's unfortunate to turn it into his own net, but that's the way it's going for Wolves. 

Despite that, we all have to take so much heart from the performance.

Emmanuel Agbadou's improvement under Edwards has been much needed and this was his best game this season, a real rock in the heart of defence.

Joao Gomes was probably the best performer on the day.

I really marvel at the way he wins the ball back because I've played in that position when you're getting beat up at Arsenal, you're happy for the opposition player to pass it backwards or sideways, to not let them play through you. But Gomes wants to win that ball back at every opportunity and you can see Declan Rice absolutely hated playing against him. He was brilliant.

But once again a late goal decided the game. Wolves have conceded late goals against Spurs, Brighton, Burnley and now Arsenal. There's a lot of points there that we could have gained in those moments to be within touching distance of the teams above.

In the five games under Edwards we have been drawing at half-time in every one of them, which is really good.

But we keep conceding at critical times between the 60 and 70-minute mark and it's such an important point of the game because naturally you're getting tired and managers start to think about changes.

Wolves have to find a way just to navigate that period of the game because that's when the pressure starts to build from the opposition and that's when the game plan does slightly change a little bit and you play a little bit more on instinct.

I think it's more than a coincidence, there is something in that and that's another thing that Edwards will be looking at. It's an area that is hurting Wolves at the moment.