Arsenal fans turn on Michael Owen for slamming ‘poor’ Mikel Arteta after Man City draw

Furious Arsenal supporters person rounded connected ex-England striker Michael Owen for calling retired Mikel Arteta’s ‘poor’ absorption to the side’s 2-2 thriller with Manchester City astatine the weekend.

Sunday’s heavyweight Premier League clash proved a highly arguable and bad-tempered affair, with tensions boiling implicit and players astatine each other’s throats passim the enactment astatine the Etihad.

Leandro Trossard’s contentious reddish paper connected the changeable of half-time forced the Gunners to drastically alteration their game-plan aft the interruption and the visitors came wrong touching region of a celebrated backs-to-the-wall triumph until John Stones’ stoppage-time equaliser.

After Stones’ strike, which followed Riccardo Calafiori and Gabriel’s earlier efforts, Haaland – who scored Sunday’s opener – was seen throwing the shot astatine Gabriel’s head, an enactment Ian Wright has since described arsenic ‘cowardly’.

The City striker was aboriginal overheard telling Arteta to ‘stay humble’ arsenic the 2 teams clashed astatine the last whistle and the Arsenal caput manager managed to support his composure, earlier taking purpose astatine the officials successful his post-match interrogation with Sky Sports.

On Trossard’s 2nd yellowish for kicking the shot away, Arteta said: ‘It is precise obvious, I don’t request to speech astir it.

‘I deliberation the reddish paper is precise clear, precise evident what radical think. It is not my occupation to travel present and justice what happened.

‘My occupation is to past successful 1 of the astir hard environments determination is successful shot for 55 minutes and effort to get things done to survive. The remainder is not my job.’

The Belgian’s sending disconnected came aft City attacker Jeremy Doku went unpunished for a akin enactment earlier connected successful the archetypal half.

Arteta added: ‘It has already happened doubly successful 5 games which is precise worrying to spot successful the champion league the Premier League.

‘It makes the concern impossible. It is very, precise hard to play with 11 players, with 10 it is impossible.

‘With 10 you person to support your six-yard container clip and clip again.’

Former Liverpool and Manchester United guardant Owen enjoyed the lucifer betwixt past year’s champions and runners-up but took to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, 24 hours aft the crippled to blast Arteta’s disapproval of the officiating connected show.

‘Great crippled yesterday but Arteta’s absorption and comments aft were mediocre yet again,’ Owen wrote.

‘It was a definite reddish paper for Trossard.

‘The lone squad hard done by was City arsenic [referee] Michael Oliver allowed the crippled to restart a mates of seconds excessively aboriginal successful the pb up to Arsenal’s equaliser.’

Before long, Arsenal fans began piling connected Owen, with the tweet accumulating implicit 2,000 replies astatine the clip of writing.

Fortunately for Arteta, Trossard volition beryllium disposable for Arsenal’s adjacent Premier League lucifer against Leicester arsenic helium volition service his one-match suspension successful the side’s Carabao Cup necktie with Bolton connected Wednesday.

The northbound London giants beryllium 4th successful the array up of their clash with Leicester, 2 points adrift of top-of-the-table City.

Pep Guardiola’s broadside look Watford successful the cupful this evening earlier returning to Premier League against Newcastle astatine St James’ Park this weekend.

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