Arsenal news: Premier League make William Saliba statement after Declan Rice comment

Arsenal saw their unbeaten commencement successful the Premier League travel to an extremity connected Saturday with a 2-0 decision to Bournemouth with French defender William Saliba sent disconnected aft a VAR review

Arsenal endured a damaging evening successful their combat for the Premier League rubric against Bournemouth.

The Gunners slumped to a 2-0 defeat to the Cherries connected Saturday evening. Goals from Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert sealed 3 points for the location broadside astatine the Vitality Stadium.

Arsenal’s task was made adjacent harder by the dismissal of William Saliba - the Frenchman being sent disconnected for a past antheral situation connected Evanilson. He volition present beryllium missing adjacent play against Liverpool.

Mikel Arteta volition beryllium getting his men backmost to the grooming transportation implicit the coming days up of the Champions League clash with Shakhtar Donetsk. Take a look astatine each of the headlines from North London:

Premier League explicate Saliba red

The Premier League person penned a connection explaining wherefore William Saliba was sent disconnected against Bournemouth connected Saturday. It read: "The referee gave Saliba a yellowish paper for a situation connected Evanilson.

"The VAR deemed that Saliba denied an evident goal-scoring accidental and recommended an on-field review. The referee past upgraded the yellowish to a reddish card."

Saliba was initially booked for the situation connected Evanilson connected the halfway line. But pursuing a VAR review, referee Rob Jones brandished the reddish card. Saliba is present the 3rd Arsenal prima to person been sent disconnected this play aft Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard.

Rice fires elemental message

Declan Rice has demanded Arsenal chopped retired the mistakes pursuing Saturday’s defeat. Speaking to Sky Sports aft the full-time whistle, helium said: "We've kicked ourselves successful the ft 3 times successful 8 games and we got distant with it astatine location to Brighton and distant astatine Manchester City. Bournemouth kept probing and made it 2-0.

"I'm arrogant of the players for fighting, adjacent with 10 men, but the naivety, we request to halt making mistakes due to the fact that you privation 11 players for 90 minutes and that's what wins you shot matches.

"With 10 men we showed a batch of quality and property to enactment successful the game. The large accidental was Martinelli's and the keeper work it and made a large prevention and 1 infinitesimal later, usually a regular we are truthful beardown at, has done us.

"We can't marque silly mistakes. You request each your champion players connected the transportation astatine each times. The content is truthful precocious and we volition instrumentality together. This is football, immoderate happens the astir important happening is that you instrumentality unneurotic and enactment successful the close direction."

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Webb contention clarified

The PGMOL person clarified the contention surrounding Howard Webb and what helium was doing during William Saliba’s sending disconnected against Bournemouth. The erstwhile top-flight authoritative was astatine the Vitality Stadium and was spotted with an earpiece.

But helium was NOT communicating with referees arsenic the determination was made. Webb was simply listening to the communications betwixt the on-field squad and the VAR officials.

He did not person immoderate input oregon enactment to speech to referees during the game. The quality to perceive into communications is communal signifier erstwhile refereeing absorption oregon coaches be games.

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