Gary Lineker can’t help but laugh as two Arsenal players set unwanted Premier League records

Gary Lineker was near stunned arsenic 2 players acceptable unwanted Premier League records successful Arsenal’s thrilling gully with Manchester City.

Title rivals Man City and Arsenal played retired an entertaining and arguable 2-2 draw astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Sunday.

Man City made a speedy commencement to the fixture, taking the pb wrong 10 minutes acknowledgment to Erling Haaland, who raced done connected extremity and bushed David Raya to scope 3 figures for the Premier League champions.

Arsenal equalised successful controversial circumstances done summertime signing Riccardo Calafiori, who curled a superb onslaught past City goalkeeper Ederson, earlier Gabriel roseate good from a country to caput the visitors successful front.

Despite starring astatine the interval, Arsenal fans sensed a agelong and achy 2nd fractional was looming aft Leandro Trossard was sent disconnected conscionable earlier the interval for delaying the restart, an offence that led to a 2nd yellowish card.

Manchester City piled connected the unit aft the interruption but looked acceptable to neglect successful their quest for an equaliser until John Stones bundled location successful melodramatic fashion with virtually the past footwear of the game.

Lineker described the Etihad stalemate arsenic ‘fascinating’ and was keen to item an ‘amazing’ stat to his podcast colleagues Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.

‘It was a unusual crippled but it was fascinating,’ ex-England striker and Match of the Day big Lineker said connected The Rest is Football podcast.

‘There were each sorts of aspects to it, with Man City starting truly good and past Arsenal coming back. Then we had the contention and the reddish and past Arsenal sitting truly heavy successful the 2nd half.

‘Do you cognize the astir astonishing stat from this game? I watched rather a spot of Sky Sports’ sum aft the crippled but had to spell to get this podcast acceptable truthful wasn’t definite if it was mentioned.

‘But Kai Havertz didn’t implicit 1 walk successful 90 minutes, which hasn’t happened successful 7 years. That’s an authoritative stat… not 1 pass! You mightiness springiness it distant a fewer times but… wow!

‘Not lone did Kai Havertz not implicit a walk successful the game, neither did [Jurrien] Timber. What astir that? In 90 minutes!

‘I cognize Man City are bully and Arsenal were down to 10 men truthful conscionable sat disconnected but…’

Responding to the revelation from Lineker, a amazed erstwhile Manchester City defender Richards said: ‘They didn’t implicit 1 pass?’

The trio could beryllium heard giggling astir the unthinkable stat and Shearer, the all-time grounds goalscorer successful the Premier League, simply said: ‘Wow.’

As Lineker noted, neither Havertz oregon Timber completed a azygous walk successful Arsenal’s 2-2 gully with Manchester City, becoming the archetypal outfield players connected grounds to acceptable the unwanted record.

Despite the bizarre stat, Arsenal volition beryllium much than contented with their afternoon’s enactment successful Manchester, peculiarly aft the stroke of going down to 10 men.

‘I americium truthful arrogant of the team,’ Gunners brag Mikel Arteta said. ‘We played the crippled successful a hard context, playing against the champion squad successful the world.

‘Obviously, it is already a occurrence that we had played 56 minutes astatine the Etihad with 10 men [without conceding]. It is unbelievable what we person done.’

Asked for his instrumentality connected Trossard’s dismissal, Arteta added: ‘I similar not to marque immoderate remark astir that.

‘It is evident what happened erstwhile they made that decision, but it doesn’t merit my comment. I don’t privation to ruin thing other disconnected the pitch.’

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