Arsenal are in desperate need of a victory when they travel to Molineux to face Wolves this Saturday evening, exclusively live on talkSPORT. 

The Gunners were beaten by Aston Villa last weekend and followed that up by being knocked out of the Champions League by Bayern Munich on Wednesday. 

Arsenal are out of Europe and behind in the title race
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Mikel Arteta’s side have had their season dismantled in a matter of days and another loss in the Premier League would all but end any hopes of silverware. 

A trip to the West Midlands will be tough with Gary O’Neil’s men picking up a habit of getting results against the ‘Big Six’ teams this campaign. 

Wolves vs Arsenal: Arteta out? 

Arsenal have been told to keep their faith in Arteta after a fan suggested he should be sacked.

The Gunners supporter claimed the Spaniard ‘needs to go’ after their last two results meant another trophyless season looks likely. 

However, talkSPORT presenter Jason Cundy jumped to his defence on The Sports Bar on Wednesday evening.

Cundy said: “I’m amazed that that’s your first thought, because there is no doubt about it, where Arsenal were, when Arteta turned up, to where you are now, you’ve made huge strides.

“Now I’m not saying you need to keep him just in this job for making strides, at some stage, there’s got to be something to show for it.

“But there is no way on this earth that I would think anything about removing Arteta right now, there’s no way I’d go anywhere near that.”

Arteta’s side have taken some damaging blows this week
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Wolves vs Arsenal: Team news 

Wolves will be hoping Rayan Ait-Nouri is fit to start after he missed out against Nottingham Forest with a knock. 

Nelson Semedo is also carrying an issue but should be able to feature while Pedro Neto, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Craig Dawson remain sidelined. 

As for Arsenal, Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka were able to play against Bayern. 

But after a hard-fought clash, both could be lacking fitness heading into this one. 

Gabriel Jesus, Leandro Trossard and Oleksandr Zinchecnko are likely to start after taking a place on the bench in midweek. 

Wolves will be hoping to capitalise on Arsenal’s form
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Wolves vs Arsenal: What has been said? 

Arteta has been speaking about how his side can bounce back from two consecutive damaging losses. 

In his post-Bayern press conference, he said: I wish I had today the right words for the players to make them feel better. 

“What I’m going to do for sure, all the staff, all the coaching staff, is be close to the players. I feel so grateful to be their coach and to work with them every single day. 

“And what they need is that we stand right next to them, give them our support, our love, and I will have to pick it up because on Saturday we have a big, big, big game. 

“We’re still playing for a Premier League and I would really want it. We have to show now that we are capable of turning this around.”

Arsenal must win to move on from their disappointment
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Wolves vs Arsenal: talkSPORT coverage 

This Premier League clash will take place on Saturday, April 20. 

Kick-off at Molineux is scheduled for 7:30pm. 

talkSPORT will have EXCLUSIVE live coverage of the game presented by Faye Carruthers. 

Commentary will come from Joe Shennan and former England defender Danny Mills

talkSPORT.com will also be running a live blog of all the action. 

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