MICHAEL OLIVER was inactive blowing his whistle erstwhile Leandro Trossard kicked the shot away, footage shows.
The Arsenal winger was shown a 2nd yellowish paper for delaying the restart during his side's draw with Manchester City.
Trossard had already been cautioned erstwhile helium crashed into Bernardo Silva earlier booting the shot crossed the pitch.
The referee instantly brandished his reddish paper to reduce the Gunners to 10 men on the changeable of half-time.
However, a caller space of the incidental shows that the dismissal whitethorn person been a harsh one.
As Trossard pulls his limb backmost to footwear the ball, Oliver tin beryllium seen holding the whistle successful his rima and signalling for a free-kick.
Reacting connected societal media, 1 instrumentality wrote: "What's crazier is that Trossard kicked the shot whilst Oliver was blowing the whistle."
The Belgian's dismissal forced the visitors to play the full 2nd fractional a antheral down.
He volition besides miss adjacent Saturday's location clash with Leicester done suspension.
Mikel Arteta's broadside had been successful beforehand astatine the interval acknowledgment to Riccardo Calafiori and Gabriel's archetypal fractional strikes.
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They were incapable to clasp on, though, contempt a drawstring of good saves from David Raya.
Substitute John Stones yet broke their absorption successful the eighth infinitesimal of stoppage clip by bundling the shot into the backmost of the net.
Mikel Arteta leaves fans successful daze arsenic helium speaks fluently successful caller connection contempt ne'er having lived oregon worked successful country
The gully maintains some side's unbeaten starts to the caller Premier League season.
It besides extends Arsenal's unbeaten streak against City to 4 matches.
Meanwhile, the constituent leaves the Gunners 4th successful the table, 2 points down their opponents successful archetypal place.