What Declan Rice told referee after Arsenal’s defeat to Bournemouth

Declan Rice was seen telling referee Robert Jones ‘every week it’s the same’ aft Arsenal’s 2-0 decision to Bournemouth successful the Premier League connected Saturday.

Mikel Arteta’s broadside person suffered different aboriginal stumble successful the rubric contention arsenic a well-worked country regular saw Ryan Christie enactment Bournemouth up successful the 2nd fractional earlier Justin Kluivert sealed the triumph from the punishment spot.

Arsenal were reduced to 10 men successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile William Saliba was sent disconnected for bringing down Evanilson erstwhile the Bournemouth striker would person been done connected goal.

This is the 3rd clip Arsenal had a antheral sent disconnected successful the Premier League this play pursuing Rice’s arguable reddish paper against Brighton, portion Trossard saw reddish successful the 2-2 gully with Manchester City astatine the Etihad Stadium.

Rice was seen complaining to the officials aft Arsenal’s archetypal decision successful the Premier League this play but speaking successful his post-match interview, the midfielder conceded that mistakes from his ain teammates were yet to blame.

‘We’ve kicked ourselves successful the ft 3 times successful 8 games and we got distant with it astatine location to Brighton and distant astatine Manchester City. Bournemouth kept probing and made it 2-0,’ Rice said.

‘I’m arrogant of the players for fighting, adjacent with 10 men, but the naivety, we request to halt making mistakes due to the fact that you privation 11 players for 90 minutes and that’s what wins you shot matches.

‘With 10 men we showed a batch of quality and property to enactment successful the game. The large accidental was Martinelli’s and the keeper work it and made a large prevention and 1 infinitesimal later, usually a regular we are truthful beardown at, has done us.

‘We can’t marque silly mistakes. You request each your champion players connected the transportation astatine each times. The content is truthful precocious and we volition instrumentality together. This is football, immoderate happens the astir important happening is that you instrumentality unneurotic and enactment successful the close direction.’

Arteta besides admitted his squad ‘made beingness precise hard for ourselves again’ owed to the reddish card.

‘A precise bittersweet evening, precise disappointed with the result, it was a truly pugnacious discourse again,’ Arteta said.

‘It’s hard capable to play present 11 against 11, we made beingness precise hard for ourselves again, playing for 60-70 minutes with 10 men but I cannot responsibility the effort of the players, however overmuch they wanted, however overmuch they tried.

‘But successful this league, it’s the 3rd clip it’s happened successful 8 games, it’s conscionable an mishap waiting to happen, it’s excessively difficult.

‘It’s precise hard due to the fact that evidently you haven’t planned for that, particularly that early, truthful immoderate solution, particularly with the magnitude of injuries we person successful definite positions becomes tougher. But we tried, and it’s unbelievable, the tone and the enactment complaint and however the boys tried to bash it.

‘We understood it amended and better, we didn’t truly concede thing isolated from 1 enactment astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional and with 0-0, we had the biggest infinitesimal successful the crippled erstwhile Gabi [Martinelli] is 1 connected 1 with the goalkeeper and we didn’t negociate to people the extremity and successful the different end, we concede a acceptable piece.’

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