Riccardo Calafiori aims subtle dig at referee over controversial Arsenal red card

Leandro Trossard's reddish paper forced Arsenal to play fractional their lucifer against Manchester City with 10 men and they were deied triumph by a precocious John Stones equaliser

Arsenal prima Riccardo Calafiori appeared to suggest referee Michael Oliver didn't request to nonstop disconnected Leandro Trossard successful Arsenal's gully with Manchester City.

Trossard, who was already connected a booking, was shown a 2nd yellowish paper connected the changeable of half-time. The Premier League's lucifer centre confirmed it was not for a foul connected Bernardo Silva, for which City were awarded a free-kick, but alternatively for delaying the restart by kicking the shot away.

It was the 2nd clip successful 3 games that Arsenal person seen a subordinate sent disconnected for the offence. Declan Rice saw reddish successful the gully astatine location to Brighton, missing the North London derby earlier returning to league enactment against City connected Sunday.

Arsenal were 2-1 up erstwhile Oliver gave Trossard his marching orders, with Calafiori's archetypal extremity for the nine bringing them level and Gabriel's header putting them successful front. Mikel Arteta's squad defended heavy successful the 2nd fractional arsenic they looked to enactment successful front, only for John Stones to find a stoppage-time equaliser.

After confirming helium had not yet seen a replay of the incident, Calafiori fto retired a agelong exhale. "I don't privation to accidental excessively much, but the referee, for me, they person to bash their occupation to support the crippled bully to watch, but successful these kinds of actions they don't person to enactment themselves excessively much," helium told Sky Sports.

"I deliberation Leo [Trossard] didn't adjacent perceive the whistle," the Italian added. "And travel on, you person to bash your job, not more.

"You don't person to bash excessively overmuch connected the pitch. Let the guys play, fto the teams play, due to the fact that these are axenic spectacles."

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Gunners brag Mikel Arteta refused to beryllium drawn excessively overmuch connected the incident. Speaking to Sky Sports, helium chose alternatively to constituent to however overmuch was required of his squad erstwhile they were reduced to 10 men, portion besides addressing a first-half infinitesimal wherever Jeremy Doku appeared to flight a booking for a comparable offence to Trossard's,

"It is precise obvious, I don't request to speech astir it," the Spaniard said. "I deliberation the reddish paper is precise clear, precise evident what radical think.

"It is not my occupation to travel present and justice what happened. My occupation is to past successful 1 of the astir hard environments determination is successful shot for 55 minutes and effort to get things done to survive.

"The remainder is not my job, but it has already happened doubly successful 5 games which is precise worrying to spot successful the champion league the Premier League. "[The reddish card] makes the concern impossible. It is very, precise hard to play with 11 players, with 10 it is impossible. With 10 you person to support your six gait container clip and clip again."

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