Mikel Arteta offers update on William Saliba red card appeal as Arsenal boss issues demand

William Saliba was sent disconnected conscionable earlier the half-hour people of Arsenal's decision to Bournemouth and is acceptable to miss their adjacent 3 games unless a palmy entreaty is made

Mikel Arteta volition permission the determination connected whether oregon not to entreaty the reddish paper shown to William Saliba against Bournemouth up to his bosses astatine Arsenal.

Saliba saw reddish aft hauling down Evanilson conscionable earlier the half-hour people connected Saturday's decision arsenic the Cherries prima looked to contention onto Leandro Trossard's mediocre walk back. The Frenchman was initially shown a yellowish paper by referee Rob Jones.

But VAR Jarred Gillett reviewed the incident earlier calling Jones implicit to the pitchside monitor. After the authoritative had seen a fig of replays of the incident, helium upgraded Saliba's yellowish to a reddish card.

The Gunners would spell connected to autumn to a 2-0 defeat to the hosts, their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season. They volition besides present person Saliba suspended for their adjacent 3 league games, with Arteta declining to corroborate whether oregon not an entreaty volition beryllium lodged.

"I permission that much to the nine to recognize the circumstances. They volition person to determine it," the Arsenal brag said connected Monday. "It is astir perspective. We privation to triumph successful immoderate discourse but the world is we made it precise hard for ourselves.

"Another discourse is that we person mislaid 1 crippled successful six months. Playing with 10 men determination is evidently an issue. When you analyse the 3 antithetic actions and the outcomes it’s precise different. We cannot proceed to play with 10 men.

"The task becomes astir impossible. We request to eradicate that. I deliberation what happened successful those 3 cases is thing to bash with aggression successful my opinion. We privation to competitive. It’s great."

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In a statement, the Premier League opened up connected Gillet's review. They said: "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."

If Arsenal taxable an appeal, Newcastle fable Alan Shearer does not clasp anticipation they volition beryllium successful. He told Match of the Day: "It was decidedly the close decision. He [the ref] got determination successful the end.

"It was a mediocre determination from Trossard, helium conscionable doesn’t rather get the backpass right, and evidently you can't beryllium offside. Evanilson's 1 v one, Saliba - there's nary request to foul him, there's inactive a agelong mode to spell and truthful overmuch to do.

"But there's nary mode [Ben] White's getting back, and from different space from down the extremity you tin conscionable spot the goalkeeper commencement to backpedal erstwhile helium realises he's not going to get anyplace adjacent the ball.

"The ref gave a yellowish card, was told to spell to the screen, and that's wherever VAR works truly well. So decidedly the close decision, and Bournemouth punished them for it."

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