Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has reacted to his team being denied a penalty for handball in Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Nottingham Forest. Recall that Ola Aina appeared to control the ball with his arm in his box, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, VAR concluding that the ball was played off Aina’s shoulder first and his arm was in a natural position was not good enough.
Arteta added that he saw the handball live and it was a very clear penalty for Arsenal.
His words, “The clear penalty that we cannot forget. That is a clear penalty in the box that’s not been given. Those are the margins. I saw it live, I saw it here. I saw it now again. It’s very unnecessary but he brings the ball in with his hand.
They are right, it hits the shoulder. Then he takes the ball with his hand. The explanation is not right. The rest, the order [of what it hits] is ok, the timing and the intention of the player is very clear. If not, I wouldn’t be sitting here saying in my opinion, it’s a very clear penalty.”
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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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