19 Feb 2026

Arsenal drops points again

12:03 pm on 19 February 2026
Wolverhampton Wanderers players celebrate a goal against Arsenal.

Wolverhampton Wanderers players celebrate a goal against Arsenal. Photo: PAUL ELLIS / AFP

Premier League leaders Arsenal have dropped points for the second straight game.

Riccardo Calafiori scored an injury-time own goal as Arsenal let a two-goal lead slip at bottom side Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 2-2 draw at Molineux to waste a big chance to surge ahead in the title race.

Arsenal were held 1-1 by Brentford last week and this year have played eight Premier League games, winning three of them, drawing four and losing one.

Arsenal have 58 points from 27 games, five ahead of second-placed Manchester City having played a game more.

Wolves are on 10 points from 27 games, still one shy of Derby County's record low of 11.

Bukayo Saka celebrated his new five-year contract with a first goal in 16 games on a bitterly cold night in the West Midlands, before Piero Hincapie doubled the advantage 10 minutes into the second half.

That should have been that, but Wolves stayed in the contest when Hugo Bueno netted with a superb curling show, before Tom Edozie, on his senior debut, fired a shot goalwards that came off Calafiori and the post and into the net in a fiery end to the game.

Arsenal last won the Premier League in 2004.

- Reuters with additional reporting from RNZ

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