HALF-TIME UPDATE: Wolves 0-3 Arsenal - Two Own Goals & Fabregas Strike Give Gunners Lead

FULL-TIME REPORT: Wolves 1-4 Arsenal - Fabregas & Arshavin Goals Lift Gunners To 2nd - CLICK TO VIEW

Wolverhampton Wanderers are currently trailing 3-0 to Arsenal at half-time in their Premier League match at Molineux on Saturday evening.

Wolves threatened throughout most of the first-half, but it was Arsenal who took the lead against the run-of-play after Ronald Zubar deflected a Cesc Fabregas corner into his own net.

It was another own-goal that doubled the score for Arsenal soon after, with Croatian striker Eduardo shooting slightly wide, but a nasty deflection off Jody Craddock sent the ball over Wayne Hennessey to make it 2-0.

Cesc Fabregas extended the scoreline in injury-time in the first-half, with the Spaniard slotting home Arsenal's third to make it 3-0 at the break.

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake started in attack for Wolves, with Nenad Milijas also getting a start after a superb show after coming off the bench in Wolves’ last match to set-up two goals in the 2-2 draw against Stoke City.

Arsenal were without goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, who is still suffering with a thigh injury, defender Gael Clichy with a back injury, while strikers Nicklas Bendtner and Carlos Vela and defender Armand Traore are all also out with groin injuries.

Robin van Persie started alongside Andrey Arshavin and De Silva Eduardo in attack for Arsene Wenger’s side, who could move up to 2nd place in the EPL with a win.

Both sides started the game brightly, with the home side looking up for the contest, and having the first attempt at goal, but Kevin Doyle’s shot from a Milijas corner was fairly tame and was headed off the line by Kieran Gibbs.

Wolves continued their pressure, and Arsenal’s William Gallas saw the first booking of the match after hauling down Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, with the Wolves striker heading just wide of Manuel Almunia’s goal from a corner seconds later.

Wolves had another excellent chance to open the scoring, but Christophe Berra failed to latch onto a perfectly weighted free-kick from Milijas, with Berra only having to beat Almunia from 6-yards, but the Scotsman managed to head over the crossbar.

Although Arsenal were passing well and shading the possession, Wolves were the side with all the attacks in the opening twenty five minutes.

Alex Song replaced Abou Diaby in the 24th minute after Diaby suffered a knock, with the French midfielder suffering a calf injury in the process.

It wasn’t until the 28th minute that Arsenal actually managed to threaten, and from their first corner of the match, skipper Cesc Fabregas delivered the ball into the area, only for Ronald Zubar to knock the ball into his own net from 6-yards to make it 1-0 to Arsenal, completely against the run of play.

Arsenal grew more confident from the own-goal and things went from bad to worse for Wolves when, in the 35th minute, Arsenal caught the home side on the break, with Eduardo and Aaron Ramsey combining well.

Eduardo teed his shot-up from the edge of the penalty area, with his shot looking to be going slightly wide of goal, but a nasty deflection off lone defender Jody Craddock sent the ball over Wolves keeper Wayne Hennessey and into the corner of the net to make it 2-0 to Arsenal.

Eduardo will no doubt claim the goal, but replays indicated that the ball was heading wide of the goalpost before the deflection off Craddock.

Arsenal skipper Cesc Fabregas extended The Gunners' lead in the first minute of injury-time, with the Spanish midfielder on the end of a trademark Arsenal counter attack to slide the ball past Hennessey at the near-post to make it 3-0.

The game went into half-time 3-0 to Arsenal, who are lucky to have weathered the early pressure from the home-side and especially to have a three-goal advantage at the break.

Wolves v Arsenal Full Teamsheets:

Wolves Team: Hennessey, Stearman, Craddock, Berra, Zubar, Edwards, Henry, Milijas, Catillo, Ebanks-Blake, Doyle.

Wolves Substitutes: Hahnemann, Mancienne, Kightly, Halford, Jarvis, Keogh, Maierhofer.

Arsenal Team: Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Gibbs, Diaby (Song Billong, 24), Fabregas, Ramsey, Arshavin, Eduardo, van Persie.

Arsenal Substitutes: Mannone, Senderos, Silvestre, Eboue, Rosicky, Nasri.