Thomas Partey demands Arsenal teammates heed Mikel Arteta warning after Bournemouth slip

Arsenal erstwhile again failed to support 11 men connected the transportation and were punished arsenic 2 second-half goals condemned them to a astonishment Premier League decision astatine Bournemouth

Thomas Partey surveyed the carcass of Arsenal’s unbeaten tally aft a damaging decision astatine Bournemouth and warned: “We indispensable larn from our mistakes.”

But aft the Gunners’ 3rd sending-off successful six Premier League games, the penny inactive hasn’t dropped - it’s stuck successful the slot machine.

You can’t triumph the rubric with lone 10 men, and if Arsenal don’t heed manager Mikel Arteta’s Bourne ultimatum to chopped retired the reddish cards, the metre volition support ticking implicit beyond their 20-year hold to deterioration the crown.

The Gunners were successful beforehand erstwhile Declan Rice was dismissed against Brighton successful August for kicking the shot distant - it finished 1-1. They were successful beforehand astatine rubric rivals Manchester City past period erstwhile Leandro Trossard took the agelong locomotion - it finished 2-2.

And though they were sluggish and uninspired astatine the Vitality, it was goalless earlier William Saliba’s expulsion for denying Evanilson a cleanable getaway.

That’s astatine slightest 5 points Arsenal person squandered done sick subject - and the leaves haven’t adjacent fallen from the trees yet. “We request to play with 11 against 11 if we privation to beryllium successful the presumption that we privation to be,” warned Arteta.

Agreed - truthful let’s spell it retired for Gooners truthful there’s nary country for equivocation: Arsenal person a disciplinary problem. If they don’t lick it, the party’s implicit - and midfielder Partey admits it can’t spell on.

The large Ghanaian said: “We person to larn from our mistakes and not fto them hap again. We are moving hard, we are trying to triumph our duels and sometimes these things happen. We person to instrumentality unneurotic due to the fact that reddish cards tin hap successful games and we indispensable larn from each mistake.

"Every clip we person 11 players 1 the pitch, we ever predominate the game.”

Without injured skipper Martin Odegaard and England winger Bukayo Saka - their astir originative axis - Arsenal looked blunt but unafraid capable until Saliba was wrong-footed by Trossard’s miscued pass.

Even then, their 10 men were conscionable astir holding steadfast until Ryan Christie’s slick decorativeness to a abbreviated country regular and Justin Kluivert’s punishment aft Jakub Kiwior’s horrendous backpass sold keeper David Raya short.

Partey said: “It’s important to person a afloat squad due to the fact that you are much assured with each your players, but determination is simply a batch of contention and we person to absorption connected the game, not connected the missing players.

“William is simply a monolithic subordinate for america but we person bully defenders astatine the club. Somebody volition person to measurement up, and the manager volition cognize what he’s going to bash to assistance the team.”

Arteta’s 16-match unbeaten tally successful each competitions, and Arsenal’s unbeaten grounds distant from location successful 2024, went up successful fume astatine the seaside.

Now helium indispensable reboot and re-energise his broadside for a large week - Shakhtar Donetsk astatine location successful the Champions League connected Tuesday night, followed by a monolithic day with rubric rivals Liverpool connected Sunday.

Partey said: “We privation to triumph each crippled but sometimes things bash hap that you can’t power and you person to find a mode to triumph the contest. Here we could not bash it, but we cannot support playing with 10 each game.

“It’s up to america to respond positively - this is wherefore we are here. We are professionals, we request a batch from each different truthful the adjacent measurement is to combat back.”

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