Wolves striker using pain as fuel in search for first win
Tolu Arokodare says Wolves must use the pain of their last minute loss to Arsenal as fuel to get their first win of the season.
The striker's 90th minute header seemingly snatched Rob Edwards' side a point until a 94th minute Yerson Mosquera own goal meant Wolves returned to the Black Country with nothing.
Arokodare - hurting at the manner of the defeat - believes the players have to use it as motivation to beat Brentford at Molineux this weekend in their final game before Christmas.
"You can't really get over it," Arokodare said.
"I think the only way to get over it is to go into the next game and try to win it and that's how you forget the little heartbreaks like this.
"We just have to not let it go, but take that same pain into the next game and try to get the three points.
"It's been like that almost every game this season.
"There have been games where we've conceded more than two goals, but there also have been games where we've only conceded in the last final minute. We've been very unlucky and you can see it today.
"Hopefully that run of conceding goals in the last minutes or not getting the results that we want, hopefully it's going to end.
"We're very hopeful it starts next week for the next game."
Wolves put in an organised defensive display to frustrate the league leaders and were good value for a point and Arokodare was eager to focus on what they did well.
"There are a lot of positive things to take from this game," Arokodare added.
"We stood our ground almost till the last minute and we just have to focus on the little bits where we lose focus and try not to let that happen again in the upcoming games.
"They're obviously the best team, they're at the top of the table, so I think we did pretty well.
"They came out with the three points, so I could say they were the better team, but I'm very proud of my team-mates because they fought from the start to the end.
"There are a lot of positives to take to the next game.
"It's the Premier League, every team has their qualities. You cannot under-look or under-rate any team, so you have to go into every game like every team is the best and that's what we did."
It was also Arokodare's first Premier League goal since his £22.5million summer move, as he latched onto Mateus Mane's cross to head home.
He said: "I'm very happy to score my first goal, hopefully it's not my last, hopefully I get the chance to score more.
"I'm still new in the team, I'm still very fresh and there will be more games, more chances to come.
"Me and my team-mates are still creating that chemistry, it's growing game by game and hopefully it gets better."
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