Martin Odegaard hits out at ‘strange’ decision to send off Arsenal defender William Saliba against Bournemouth

Louis SealeyPublished Oct 22, 2024, 5:12pm|Updated Oct 22, 2024, 5:15pm

Martin Odegaard has deed retired astatine the ‘strange’ determination to nonstop disconnected William Saliba during Arsenal’s daze Premier League decision to Bournemouth.

Odegaard, presently retired injured, told Arsenal’s authoritative website: ‘From my constituent of presumption it’s a antithetic position watching our games connected TV, and I deliberation I tin larn a batch from that arsenic well.

‘It’s easier to spot the movements of each player, things similar that, truthful I deliberation I’ve been learning a batch from that some successful the consciousness of watching my teammates but besides seeing what different teams are doing.

‘It gives you ideas of what you tin bash better, and it helps maine spot my teammates amended too.

‘It tin beryllium a bully mode to spot tiny details and things you wouldn’t usually prime up connected the pitch, but saying that it’s precise frustrating excessively not being involved.

‘For Saliba’s reddish paper for example, my archetypal feeling was that a yellowish paper would beryllium enough, and it was the aforesaid for the referee.

‘He had a wide presumption connected it, truthful I thought it was unusual that VAR should past alteration his decision. It’s done present though, truthful we person to determination connected and look astatine the adjacent game.

‘And it’s a large crippled for america to absorption on, backmost successful the Champions League.

‘Shakhtar are a broadside with tons of acquisition successful this competition, successful information I retrieve playing against them for Real Madrid a fewer years ago, truthful they cognize what this contention is each about.’

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