Jamie Carragher questions Howard Webb over William Saliba red card in deleted post

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has deleted a societal media station he'd made questioning PGMOL main Howard Webb successful the aftermath of William Saliba's reddish paper against Bournemouth

Jamie Carragher took to societal media to question whether Howard Webb stepped successful aft William Saliba was sent disconnected successful Arsenal's lucifer with Bournemouth.

The French defender was initially shown a yellowish paper by referee Rob Jones aft hauling down Evanilson successful the archetypal fractional of Saturday evening's Premier League fixture astatine The Vitality Stadium. The paper was upgraded to red, though, erstwhile VAR intervened soon after.

Saliba's dismissal means helium volition miss adjacent weekend's crunch showdown with Liverpool - and erstwhile Reds defender Carragher wondered whether Webb was progressive successful the U-turn aft the PGMOL main was shown speaking connected his telephone successful the crowd.

In a present deleted X post, Carragher said: "Was Howard Webb progressive successful the determination making of the reddish paper for Saliba??"

Arsenal fans were speedy to vent their frustrations astatine Webb and the PGMOL, chanting: "F*** Howard Webb" successful the aftermath of Saliba's reddish card. The Gunners went successful astatine the interruption with the lucifer inactive goalless.

Saliba's dismissal is different contented for Mikel Arteta to contend with. The Spaniard is already without skipper Martin Odegaard owed to injury, though helium hinted connected Friday that the Norwegian playmaker could beryllium acceptable capable to look Liverpool adjacent week.

The Gunners were besides without Bukayo Saka against the Cherries aft the winger picked up an wounded connected planetary duty.

The Premier League released a connection explaining wherefore Saliba's yellowish paper had been upgraded to a reddish portion the lucifer was ongoing, outlining that the Arsenal prima had denied an evident goal-scoring opportunity.

"The referee gave Saliba a yellowish paper for a situation connected Evanilson," the connection read. "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."

Arsenal person been progressive successful a fig of contentious decisions already this play owing to reddish cards shown to Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard. Both were shown 2nd yellowish cards for delaying restarts, the second successful past month's rubric showdown with Manchester City.

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