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martinelli gets two yellows and a red, oliver been looking to issue a red to Arsenal in this game
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you will unlikely ever have seen this happen to any other side, two yellows for fouls in the same section of play.
thankfully wolves have just had a goal rightly ruled out for offside
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lacazette misses when one on one with the keeper
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holding on for saka
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Arsenal up to four red cards in 2022. This is their sixth game of the year.
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nketiah on for lacazette
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5 minutes of injury time
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FT: Wolves 0-1 Arsenal
Gabriel goal moves us up to 5th
six games this year and we’ve had 4 red cards, no agenda at all im told
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If, and its a very unlikely if, we get to finish in a top 4 place, then Arteta will be a true heir to Wenger as the efforts of the PGMOL seem to be redoubling against us.
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Rob Holding made 9 clearances in 19 minutes
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If anyone can see that and other games and still think there is no agenda against Arsenal, that’s their call but I wonder how they justify that.
Technically maybe two yellows in that sequence, and Martinelli was naive , but as Arteta says, he has never witnessed anything like that, and the someone had to be “very willing”, some of us know how willing refs are with Arsenal.the question is,
has anyone seen other teams players red carded for a passage of play like that?
It’s clear the refs are customising the laws of the game to punish our players and hinder our team, in a way they do not apply the games laws to others.
But, what a heroic rear guard performance, Holding was magnificent, Xhaka was brave, he knew what the ref wanted and played on a yellow knowing that, ditto Partey. Liverpool and co will never play under such pressure
Can only congratulate the team, playing knowing refs seem to be adhering to some sort of quota
I expect further PGMOL revenge in coming games, today didn’t go their way
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Mikel Arteta had plenty to smile about after Arsenal secured a morale-boosting victory on Thursday.
The boss was asked about our performance, another red card for the side, and the heroic performance of substitute Rob Holding.
Read on for a full transcript:
on the performance…
Obviously it was a massive game for us, playing away against a really good team that makes very little errors, that concedes very little and that they are extremely dangerous. I think we had some really good periods in the game, we went ahead, but the red card changes the context completely. We had to dig in, we had to suffer, we showed great resilience, we defended the box extremely well, and that’s why at the end we got the points.
on the red card record…
Very worrying. To be fair, it’s the first time I’ve seen a red card like this in 18 years that I’ve been in this league. I think you have to be pretty willing to give a red card in that situation. But still it happened. We know that playing with 10 men in this league you’re not going to get points, enough points, the points that we want and we have to stop it. But to be fair it’s difficult to find more arguments and more ways to transmit that to the players. Everybody says it’s the most disciplined group they’ve seen in the last 15 years, but still we are getting red cards for other things.
on the resilience and character…
I keep telling you guys how close they are, how much they like to play together, the unity and togetherness around that dressing room and how willing they are to defend that shirt every single match. I really mean it when I say that and today was another example. I think we have so many and that’s why I’m proud to be the coach of these players.
on losing Martinelli through suspension…
Gabi has been extremely good the last few months. I think the level that he’s playing at, the way he’s been every game, the way he’s been evolving. It’s a real shame because he’s going miss the game now because we need him and because we are really, really short.
on whether referees are targeting Arsenal…
If you ask me if I’m happy with the decisions we’ve had this season, I’m not at all. But that’s a conversation I will have privately with the officials. We need explanations, we need explanations with what happened in VAR and I need explanations with what happened today.
on whether he has had those conversations already…
No but they are going to happen soon.
on Rob Holding’s performance…
Today he deserves a lot of credit. He was on the bench, he was ready to help. His attitude, his commitment to the team whether he plays every week or plays one minute, it’s incredibly good. He’s a really good influence for the rest. Today he really helped the team, the way he defended the box made a huge difference. Thanks to him we won the game.
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Mikel Arteta was a happy man after watching his side earn a battling three points away to Wolves, despite playing the last 20 minutes with ten men.
It was the fourth time in the past six games that we had picked up a red card, but the Gunners would not be denied at Molineux, holding on to pick up our first win of 2022.
Afterwards Mikel Arteta spoke to Arsenal Media, here’s what he said:
On the team’s performance…
Yeah, they are three big points, especially coming here with the way that they’ve been playing. The moment that we had after three weeks, I think they were pretty close to us as well, and to come here and in the way that we’ve done it, I think it shows and I think it’s a good summary of who we are today. We have some really good players but we were sometimes inconsistent. We scored a good goal and we had total control in one action that all started from a free-kick where we are in control and we are a bit naive and we end up with 10 men for 20 minutes. But after that, the character and the resilience and the courage and togetherness that the team showed, it’s all about us now.
On his pride at the way the team responded to going down to 10…
I’m extremely proud of them, but we have to stop doing that. We’ve played four of the last six games with 10 men and to win football matches in this league is very, very difficult and with 10 men it’s almost impossible. If we want to have any chance of getting to the objectives that we want, we have to continue to play the 16 games with 11 players.
On what pleased him most about our performance…
Well, we had periods where we gave some sloppy balls away that lost us some control, but our structure was good and our intention was the right one and the quality that we showed, but we had to finish the actions better and we didn’t. At 1-0 the game is always open and then we know what happened in the last 20 minutes.
On the fight for the top four…
You don’t know how many points we’re going to need to get to the objectives, but as well, we need to look at ourselves and focus on what we’re doing and go game by game because we can’t look too far ahead.
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Well we certainly weren’t fantastic but we did play well against a very good side away from home.
While I know the PGMOL have an agenda against us and the sending off was an act of sheer lunacy, Oliver’s display wasn’t one sided.
He was totally erratic all night with players unable to figure out which way he was going to give any decision. He lost control in the second half with every decision being disputed by both teams.
How Cedric never got a sending off let alone a booking is beyond me.
In the end of we can keep up the stoic displays and the competition keep stale then fourth is possible.
I wonder if the home game against Wolves might prove to be a totally different game but undoubtedly those three points are enormous.
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never seen a red like that before, reminded me of one game that was the 1st of the season where Xhaka was sent of for deliberate trip when he cynically stopped a counter against us (it was his 1st foul).
We were told at the time that it was a new rule to stop cynical challenges.
No one ever got sent of for cynicism since (standard yellow).
They make rules up for us.
Well done the team for a good defensive performance and 3 good points.
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