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Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. Off the Ball's Football Daily. Hello and welcome along to Thursday's Football Daily. I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today we look back at last night's action in the Premier League as Arsenal missed the chance to go seven points clear at the top. Newcastle win big away from home in the Champions League and we look ahead to tonight's action in the Europa and Conference League. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says it's time for his players to stand up in the Premier League title race. After being held to a two-all draw away to bottom-side Wolves, the Gunners threw away a 2-0 lead at Molineux and missed the chance to go seven points clear of Manchester City.
Instead, the lead is five and City have a game in hand. Arteta says the result adds to the significance of Sunday's North London derby against Tottenham.
When they have a moment of difficulty and we feel really frustrated with ourselves, you have the perfect game against the Spurs, a way to go and show how much we want it and how good we are. That's it. That's what we have to do. Talk on the pitch.
Arteta added his team only have themselves to blame for throwing away that two-goal lead.
Any question, any criticise, any opinion, you have to take it on the chin today. That's it. Any hit, any bullet, take it because we didn't perform at the level that is required. So anything that anybody says can be right because we didn't do what we had to do.
A reminder, you can hear that North London derby on Off the Ball this Sunday. Kick-off is half four. Stephen Doyle and Brian Kerr will have live commentary from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
What happened in Arsenal's recent match against Wolverhampton?
It's one of two games this weekend. The other game is the two o'clock kick-off between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. Now, Wolves boss Rob Edwards hopes they can rebuild a connection with their fans after coming from 2-0 down. There were some jeers from the home crowd when they went behind at Molyneux, but Edwards says he'd rather focus on the full-time cheers.
It's down to us to perform, but also we're up against Arsenal at the moment, who are top of the league, who are really difficult to score against, really difficult to play against, top of the Champions League, wherever that qualifying was. I watched them, what they did to Bayern Munich. They're an unbelievable football team. For us to do that tonight is very, very special.
Wolves are still 17 points adrift of safety despite their improved fortunes. Edwards says he's encouraged by their recent form though.
Three defeats in 11 games and two of those were against Chelsea and City so we're actually doing alright. I know there's draws in there and we would like to win more games but we're competing well against a lot of teams. I know the narrative at the moment we're bottom of the league and we are struggling in the league and the lads are fighting.
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe says they'll treat the second leg of their Champions League tie with Carabao professionally.
How is Mikel Arteta responding to Arsenal's performance?
They have a 6-1 lead after the first leg in Azerbaijan last night. Anthony Gordon scored four goals in the first half. They were 5-0 up at half-time. Howe says they won't tolerate any drop in standards when the two sides meet again at St James' Park next week.
We fully respect Carabao. We know what a good team they are. As I said yesterday, I watched them loads in preparation for this game. They've got some very good players. We will take the second game very, very seriously.
How added that he believes the success in Baku will do plenty of good for his squad.
Yeah, I think there's always those moments when we win and we're able to share with our supporters. We haven't done it enough away from home. Our away form has been difficult this season.
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