The Premier League schedule places Arsenal alone on Wednesday night as they travel to bottom-of-the-table Wolverhampton Wanderers. That clash is the only midweek top-flight fixture, a consequence of Arsenal reaching the Carabao Cup final earlier this month.<\/p>\n
After escaping Brentford\u2019s Gtech Community Stadium with what could prove to be a valuable point last week, Arsenal lead the Cityzens by just four points with 12 games to go. A win at Molineux would allow Mikel Arteta\u2019s side to open up a seven-point cushion at the top before the next round of league fixtures, with Manchester City hosting Newcastle United while the leaders face off against suffering local rivals Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n
Arsenal\u2019s trip to Molineux had to be rescheduled after Arteta\u2019s side reached the Carabao Cup final by virtue of a 4\u20132 aggregate victory over Chelsea earlier this month. The Gunners will take on Manchester City at Wembley on Sunday, Mar. 22, and Wolves were due to host the title favourites that weekend. The Wolves fixture was therefore moved forward to Wednesday night, given that both teams have no other commitments that week.<\/p>\n
Many are projecting a comfortable away win against one of the Premier League\u2019s worst-ever teams, but Wolves ran Arsenal close in the reverse fixture before Christmas. They were a Yerson Mosquera own goal in stoppage time away from snatching an unlikely point at the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n
Manchester City will also need to have their league game against Crystal Palace rescheduled because of the Carabao Cup final, but that fixture will likely be played closer to the end of the season as a result of European commitments. For now, Arsenal\u2019s solitary midweek outing offers a clear path to extend their lead, while the rearranged timing reflects the knock-on effects of cup progress on an already congested calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arsenal’s trip to Wolves is Wednesday only midweek tie after a Carabao Cup final rearrangement soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1067,969,783],"tags":[1066,1477],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-carabao-cup","category-premier-league","category-wolverhampton-wanderers","tag-carabao-cup","tag-yerson-mosquera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}