Arsenal can feel aggrieved by penalty decision but Inter Milan defeat sums up their season

In galore ways, this was a show that summed up Arsenal’s play truthful far.

This was ever apt to beryllium a choky crippled fixed Arsenal and Inter Milan came into it having some not conceded successful the Champions League this season.

The 2 sides had besides scored conscionable 8 goals betwixt them successful six Champions League games and, successful the end, Inter needed lone 1 to triumph this game.

Arsenal will, rightly, consciousness aggrieved astir it. Inter launched a free-kick into the container conscionable earlier half-time and the shot fired into Mikel Merino’s arm.

The midfielder knew thing astir it, conscionable yards distant from wherever the shot was struck, but the referee Istvan Kovacs pointed to the spot.

Hakan Calhanoglu made nary mistake and Inter took the pb with their archetypal and lone changeable connected people of the game.

Arsenal had mostly kept them astatine bay, isolated from erstwhile Denzel Dumfries crashed an effort into the crossbar successful the opening moments.

It was a stop-start opening 45 minutes, acknowledgment mostly to the information it had 13 fouls, but Arsenal were shading possession and looked successful power earlier Inter’s goal.

The vexation was successful attack, however, Arteta’s broadside erstwhile again looked toothless. They finished the crippled with 20 shots, but conscionable 4 were connected target.

They carried a menace from set-pieces, arsenic they ever do, and Dumfries had to wide the shot disconnected the enactment aft Mehdi Taremi accidentally headed Saka’s country towards his ain goal.

In unfastened play, though, the Gunners were not arsenic threatening arsenic they tin beryllium - surely not similar they were past season.

Kai Havertz drew an fantabulous prevention from Yann Sommer and Yann Bisseck made a heroic artifact to contradict him arsenic well.

They were 2 agleam moments successful a amended second-half from Arsenal, who improved erstwhile Gabriel Jesus came connected astatine the interruption successful spot of Merino.

The Brazilian upped the tempo and added much of a spark, which was besides the lawsuit erstwhile Ethan Nwaneri and Oleksandr Zinchenko were thrown connected with 10 minutes to go.

Martin Odegaard came connected for the last fewer minutes, with Havertz leaving the transportation arsenic humor poured from his caput pursuing a clash with Bisseck.

How Arsenal person missed Odegaard successful these 2 months and the show of him here, adjacent if lone for a fewer minutes, was 1 affirmative for Arteta to instrumentality backmost to London.