Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta has come out to react to Declan Rice controversially given the marching orders during the 1-1 draw against Brighton on Saturday. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he remembers Joao Pedro blatantly kicking the ball down the touchline but escaping a booking in the first half, so he does not understand the referee deciding to punish Rice for the same offence.
Arteta added that bookings for delaying the restart should be more consistent for the rule to be taken seriously.
His words, “If it [bookings for delaying the restart] happens throughout the game in a consistent way it is fine but it didn’t. It is the inconsistency.
No explanation, like always.
I was amazed. In the first half when the opponents did that they didn’t get any booking. He makes the call by law in a non-critical area of the pitch when the ball hits the heel when turning around, to make that decision. By law, he can do it but be consistent. If that is the case they should have a man sent off and then it is 10 v 10.”
WOW.
Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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