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Rio Ferdinand says helium was ‘miffed’ by the absorption of Mikel Arteta to Leandro Trossard’s reddish paper successful Arsenal’s gully with Premier League champions Manchester City.
The ten-man Gunners were moments distant from sealing a memorable triumph astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Sunday erstwhile Man City substitute John Stones scrambled location a 98th-minute equaliser.
Arsenal led 2-1 acknowledgment to Riccardo Calafiori’s stunning onslaught and Gabriel’s towering header, which some came aft Erling Haaland opened the scoring with his 100th extremity for Manchester City.
But the crippled wholly changed connected the changeable of half-time erstwhile Trossard picked up a 2nd yellowish paper for delaying the restart and was truthful sent off.
The Belgian winger was already connected a booking for a tactical foul and then, possibly naively, kicked the shot distant aft Man City were awarded a free-kick to beryllium shown a 2nd yellowish by referee Michael Oliver.
Arteta fundamentally refused to remark connected the incidental successful respective post-match interviews but was intelligibly furious with the decision, peculiarly arsenic City’s Jeremy Doku escaped punishment for a akin incidental earlier successful the half.
It is not the archetypal clip this play Arsenal person paid the punishment for delaying the restart, with Declan Rice controversially shown a 2nd yellowish paper and sent disconnected successful the gully with Brighton earlier this month.
Asked for his instrumentality connected Trossard’s red, Arteta said: ‘It is precise obvious, I don’t request to speech astir it. 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.’
He added: ‘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.’
Ferdinand was ‘miffed’ by Arteta’s take, however, and believes the referee was close to nonstop disconnected Trossard.
‘Did you hold with the reddish paper by the way? I thought it was a red,’ the ex-England and Manchester United defender said connected his YouTube channel.
‘I thought it was a [second] yellowish paper and that makes it a red. I deliberation arsenic players you ever cognize if you footwear the shot away, you’re successful enactment for a booking. More often than not you’ll get a booking.
‘That’s wherefore I was a spot miffed with the absorption of the Arsenal manager. I was thinking, “you cognize what it’s like”.
‘But possibly he’s trying to make a small communicative for his squad that they were hard done by, creating that siege mentality.’
Trossard’s reddish paper means helium is suspended for Arsenal’s adjacent match – Wednesday night’s Carabao Cup clash with League One broadside Bolton Wanderers – but tin play successful adjacent weekend’s Premier League lucifer against Leicester City.
Following the Etihad stalemate, Manchester City stay apical of the Premier League, 1 constituent supra Liverpool and Aston Villa and 2 supra fourth-placed Arsenal aft 5 games.
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