Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Report: Manchester City 2-2 Arsenal (inc. goals)

Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Partey, Rice, Havertz, Martinelli, Saka, Trossard

Subs: Neto, White, Lewis-Skelly, Kiwior, Kacurri, Jorginho, Nwaneri, Sterling, Jesus

Arsenal conceded a devastating last minute equaliser to draw 2-2 with Manchester City at Etihad Stadium – thanks to goals from Riccardo Calafiori and Gabriel – before Leandro Trossard was sent off in first half injury time.

Mikel Arteta made two changes to the side that drew against Atalanta on Thursday, with Calafiori and Trossard coming in for Ben White (slight knee issue) and Gabriel Jesus.

Manchester City were also missing Kevin de Bruyne who suffered a calf injury during their midweek Champions League draw against Inter.

Within five seconds there was an incident to consider after Rodri attempted to block Kai Havertz from kick off, only for the German to give him a bump which kept him on the floor for two minutes.

Thankfully Rodri was unharmed and fine to continue, and Erling Haaland responded by giving William Saliba another bump after both players challenged for an aerial duel. Those two challenges wasted little time in creating a fiery atmosphere.

Those two incidents aside, it was City who started strongest and they were ahead after seven minutes when Savinho rolled inside Calafiori too easily before releasing Erling Haaland through the middle – and the Norwegian striker slotted beyond Raya with typical ease. 1-0.

Both Savinho and Haaland did well in the build-up but it was too easy from an Arsenal perspective, with Calafiori getting sucked in and Gabriel vacating his position to track Bernardo Silva out wide, allowing Haaland the space to drive through the middle.

It was a difficult start for Arsenal who were under extreme pressure in every phase, with Ilkay Gundogan nearly doubling their lead although his free-kick from 20 yards hit the outside of the post.

With City in the ascendancy, a potential game-changing moment occurred around the 20th minute when Rodri fell in the penalty area under attention from Thomas Partey with what looked like a serious knee injury.

The Spanish midfielder looked in tears as he clutched his knee while receiving treatment and after five minutes down on the turf, indicated to Pep Guardiola that he couldn’t continue – with Mateo Kovacic coming on to replace him.

But in their first real attack of the game, Arsenal caught City off-guard and were able to free Martinelli down the left hand side who cut the ball back to Calafiori, with the Italian sending a stunning strike into the top corner on his first Gunners start. 1-1.

It was an incredible goal that sparked wild celebrations on the bench and away end, while City were left furious with referee Michael Oliver because they believed he pulled Kyle Walker out of position before the free kick was taken.

The game settled down by that point and Arsenal looked more confident in possession, were playing nicely through the thirds and able to maintain longer spells of attacking pressure with City still organising themselves after Rodri’s injury.

Arsenal then had two good chances in quick succession when Gabriel rose highest at the back post but headed over, before Trossard also fired over – although he was on the stretch – after a brilliant piece of build up from the visitors.

But City learned very quickly that you cannot give Gabriel another chance to score a header from close range and he did just that, powering in a header after escaping Kyle Walker on the penalty spot. 2-1.

It was another pinpoint delivery from Saka and once the Brazilian had a run on his marker – there was only one outcome. Arteta and Nicolas Jover embraced again on the touchline after executing yet another perfect set piece to give them a valuable lead.

However, just seconds before the half time whistle, another game changing incident would occur when Arsenal were reduced to ten men for the second time this season.

Trossard was given his marching orders for delaying the restart after bumping into Bernardo and kicking the ball away, earning a second yellow card despite the referee blowing his whistle a matter of milliseconds before.

It was naive from the Belgian who is plenty experienced but again there were complaints from Arsenal about how this rule is enforced with Jeremy Doku doing the same thing earlier – and not being booked.

After the break, Arsenal adopted a 5-4-1 formation with Ben White replacing Saka as Arteta’s men prepared to bunker in and defend their lead. The second half would already become a 45 minute attack-vs-defence session.

It took 15 minutes for their first real chance to arrive, when Haaland leapt above Saliba at the back post and saw his downward header saved by David Raya before Bernardo struck the rebound over from close range.

Raya was called into action again shortly after and did well to get his body weight behind a hearty half-volley from Josko Gvardiol.

With 15 minutes remaining, Arsenal continued to frustrate City with a series of blocks and interceptions, and were forced into another change when Calafiori was replaced by Jakub Kiwior after going down with cramp (hopefully).

Guardiola was becoming visibly frustrated with ambitious long shots on the touchline and introduced John Stones, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish in an attempt to change the game.

There was another heart in mouth moment when Gvardiol fired another strike towards the bottom corner – almost from an identical position to his earlier effort – but Raya was behind it once again before an Arsenal defender could clear.

With five minutes left, Gabriel Jesus was introduced for Martinelli who was another player suffering with cramp as City continued to probe without much luck.

As the clock edged its way into injury time, Timber could barely run, Rice was puffing as much air as possible through his lungs, others were getting bumped and bruised with the home fans becoming increasingly frustrated with what they were watching.

Seven minutes were added on and as Arsenal found themselves in the 97th minute, tired bodies couldn’t close down a short corner quickly enough before the ball eventually bobbled to John Stones who bundled home the equaliser. 2-2.

It was a devastating moment for the Gunners who defended brilliantly all game but saw three points snatched from their grasp with seconds remaining. The goal also sparked fights between both sets of players and benches, reminiscent of those Liverpool v Manchester City games from a few years back.

After a difficult week which contained three away games, travelling to Bergamo and back, one fewer day of rest and being forced to play the whole second half with ten men – this was still an important result that further highlighted this sides’ winning credentials.

This result will be hard to take but there is undoubtedly plenty to feel encouraged by as another title race beckons.

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89 again

Exhausted. Angry. Proud

Henkamp

Summed up the feelings PERFECTLY. 10/10

GoonerJust

4 goals summary: a great one from Haland, even better from Calafiori, routine from Gabriel, lucky from Stones.
Referee: a disgracee.
I’m very proud with the boys!
On to the next game!

SirL

Fucking Lions

Dada

Citeh can be beaten. Citeh are cunts. Haaland is a dick. I’m sorry for my language but what a performance. We are champions. They are genuinely scared of us and the league knws. Extremely proud of the boys.

Bobbert

Your language is tame by comparison to what I have wished upon Howard Webb today- that big bald fraud is as corrupt as ever and should have forensic accounting done on his entire family.

Dada

I am distraught at the draw because I saw us winning. Our players were hurting. Thta tells you where we are. We remain unbeaten. 2 points from top and we are not even in second gear.

Sharp

This team is incredible

brad

Definitely. Rodri can go pound sand with his mentality comments.

JuiceJ

Haaland wasn’t red-carded for hitting Gabriel in the head with a ball after their goal, on purpose despite it being seen by the cameras VAR didn’t even look at it. Fucking disgrace.

IamaGoober

My head is still on fucking mars here. The corporate gaslighting is absolutely impossible to continuously swallow, and its so disappointing when you have two former Arsenal players sat in the commentary box showing zero colours and going into bat for us, and feeling this need to come across as impartial when the likes of Neville, Carragher, Keane, Richards never ever follow suit. They just sit and marinate in their ludicrous biased bullshit opinions and make everyone else accept them as fact. It drives me fucking insane that our lads sit there, shitting filling their trousers, being too scared to… Read more »

SirL

Fantastic post and the fucking reality of what the PL has become

Amb

Football mirrors real life in UKPLC.
When your salary depends on it, you go with the narrative framed by the wealthy.

karl g

If the PGMOL are going to penalise each Arsenal player for delaying restart, it must be applied to other teams as well! Even Jesus got one at the end, but not Doku.

We should never be 2 points behind City.

Paul

It’s fine. We will take 3 points off them at home. They got lucky today.

Bobbert

It’s not fine if the refs have placed us in such a position thru blatant corruption that we are unable to challenge. If you don’t take a stand against their behavior it won’t end. Someone should 2 foot a pgmol official.

Guns Up

This guy got paid $20k to ref a match in Saudi Arabia, and the payment was almost directly from the owner of Manchester City. They aren’t even clever or sneaky about it. Surely his objectivity is compromised and he should never be allowed to ref a other City game.

Bobbert

City are owned by the uae, not mbs/saudis

Guns Up

The payment is the key, not the specific match location. Game could have been in New York City – the point is the payment only had one level of separation (laundering) from City’s owners.

Rufusstan

It might not be completely unacceptable If the ruling was implemented consistently. 2 red cards for us now when in each games, just as flagrant offenses by the opposition ignored. 11 VS 11 we’d have won pretty easily.

mikeoz

Once again its a complete lack of consistency from the officials. This after they made a point of saying there was a lack of consistency in the game Rice got sent off. Conspiracy sounds a bit strong but its two games where we have got the player sent off and the opposition had players not even yellowed for the same thing.

Jasonissimo

Was Trossard not entitled to think Oliver was not going to give out cards for delaying the restart when Doku did not receive one earlier?

brad

I know I have some bias but I would like to know how many yellow cards have been given to each team so far each season?

I would also like to know how how many have not been given event though the ball was kicked away.

these cards seem pretty arbitrary.

Giuseppe Hovno

yes i would like to see the stats showing all the kicks after a whistle has been blown, the time between the kick and the whistle and whether a card was given

Vaibhav Pandey

There are just too many bookings this season. Some players will start getting automatic bans due to accumulated yellow cards. Not a good advert for the game for sure.

JuiceJ

The GJ one was ludicrous, its a fucking corner and guess where GJ is? in the fucking corner arc, you should be six yards of the corner when it’s being taken its a rule. GJ should have been afforded time to walk away before the corner is taken. But like I said before the only issue we have as Arsenal is PGMOL and its officials, not City
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Henkamp

Nah, somebody in the exec level of this club has to take a stand against the PGMOL! Light a fire under their asses and make it public. This is getting ridiculous! 4 points dropped because refs are eager to apply “the letter of the law” against our team faster than they do for others!

Having said, that, take a bow every single one of our players today. They are ALL heroes!

Bobbert

And this is on the back of 3 away games in 9 days… joke of a league in every respect.

morecoffeeman

Wolves tried with VAR and no-one backed them.
I thought we would have.

Bobbert

We and forest should have.

Jasonissimo

Video review is not the problem. Wolves just picked the wrong target for their ire.

Henkamp

Don’t think VAR is the problem per se. It’s run by the same bunch of incompetent, inept, and bent cvnts posing as referees. Hardly a football week goes by in the EPL without at least ONE controversial call or non-call to ruminate over. It’s ridiculous and a sad indictment on the “best league in the world.” Juxtapose the performance of clowns like Michael Oliver with the refeeres from Europe in this UCL week and you will see why the refereeing body in England needs a serious revamp. It’s making my head hot that we shouldn’t have dropped points against Brighton,… Read more »

Rufusstan

But the very fact that they stood up and said something forced a change to how VAR is implemented.

The reason other clubs didn’t vote with them because they wanted to scrap it altogether, when it is a benefit most of the time. Wolves’ proposal was like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Eric Blair

Not only is this fucking with our chances of winning the league, it must be doing tremendous damage to the image (and value) of the league across the world. Nobody tunes in to watch a referee decide games ffs!

Bobbert

I’m rapidly losing interest when some moron without accountability or capability is allowed to run riot and make up rules on the fly with the cover of ‘discretion’ every week in every match.

Rufusstan

Or apply them inconsistently, under the cover that they don’t have any discretion.

Bobbert

Only cowards hide behind policy, Oliver has shown he’s as chicken as they come.

Up4GrabsNow!

2-2, good result for ten vs TWELVE!!!

Heavenly Chapecoense

Summed up the game perfectly.

WinBigly

Great effort from everyone involved, it’s never easy to play 10 vs 12.

C.B.

Robbery, both the sending off and the huge amount of extra time.

Joker

In both halves. The first half should have been over by a minute already before Trossard was wrongfully sent off.

Henkamp

That was my main bone of contention. +6 minutes in the first half, game should have ended before the Trossard incident! Oliver is a sad cvnt!

Bobbert

Absolute farce that passes for impartial competent officiating. Pgmol are bought. Oliver should be sacked.

Bobbert

Oliver cannot- apply the rules of the game across both teams, keep time, or notice fouls. He’s either unfit for purpose and should be sacked and publicly admonished for this, or his boss is in on the fix. Howard Webb, you’re a disgrace to your federation.

Paul

Dear Man City,
we are better than you, and you got very lucky today.
Kind regards
The Arsenal.

Brent

Someone. Anyone. Mention how Haaland picked up the ball and threw it in the back of Gabriel’s head. Would it have changed the outcome? No. Would he miss the next 3 games? Yes.

Oberon

Or just shoulder charging a player way off the ball. You can’t even do that in Rugby.

Bobbert

Or ice hockey, and depending on the situation, not even in the NFL

Artedu

Didn’t see it. When did it happen?

Bobbert

That’s going to be described as gamesmanship or passion by the media if it’s mentioned at all. Nothing will happen.

thw14

Looks like something escaped from a lab. Would be surprised if he had two non-ball kicking brain cells to rub together, class and sportsmanship is out of the question. Sort him out at the Emirates.

Vaibhav Pandey

I wonder did the man child got a touch on the ball in second half?

brad

Its different when a player from PGMOLFC does that.

SG_Gooner

115 Al Fraud. + Oliver.

hellsyeahhh

I fucking love this team!!!

Vieiraera

See the 115ers celebrating a draw at home against 10 men. So proud of our boys!!!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾. But fuck Michael Oliver and PGMOL!!! And to any twat who’ll blame trossard for going for a 50-50, fuck you too!!!

Matt

I was furious at first, then I looked up the rule. I get it now…

“According to Law 12 (Fouls and Misconduct), an Arsenal player can be cautioned (yellow card) for delaying the restart of play.

Referees are instructed to issue a yellow card to Arsenal players who engage in this behavior to maintain the flow of the game and prevent deliberate time-wasting.”

Original Big Dave

Outstanding display from The Arsenal. Anybody who knows anything about football knows how good Arsenal were second half. A jammy goal that’s it, other than that they had nothing (well they have 115 things).

Gordy

What a fantastic performance. So many were heroes, I thought Partey and Martinelli showed they still have quality and heart.

Berserker Fury

I like that this team can defend stoutly and grind for result like Mourinho’s or Dyche team, but still can play beautifully. This is a positive result for me, considering Michael Oliver is the ref.

MeSoHornsey

Infinitely better than a Dyche team

Olawale Olayemi

Never been prouder of this team. I hate that I have to deal with all the what ifs but I’d have taken this result before the match

Bleeding Gums Murphy

Absolutely. We have Villa, the scum and city away in first 5 games and took 7 points.

Bleeding Gums Murphy

P.s I think we are gonna win the league

loose_cannon

Heroic performance against City, the UAE, the PGMOL, Lord Pannick and whoever else. Just so tired of these 115 charge wankers

ObiKing

Fcuk PGMOL and city with their dirty oil money.

Arselinho

I get that people are angry at the ref. But Trossard’s second yellow is such a stupid mistake. After everything that happened over the last few weeks – there is no excuse.

Bleeding Gums Murphy

Agreed.

Tony

It was at the same time the whistle was blown, so there’s a perfectly fine excuse.

thw14

We keep having this debate about our guys being smarter. This is not 2014. Our guys are smarter. Shithousing helps compete, as long as it’s consistently officiated. If their albino orc barges into our defenders without consequence, we are allowed to do the same. Unless the referee is corrupt.

thw14

Also, I assumed the second card was given for Trossard’s challenge on Silva. Turns out the PGMOL *themselves* are not clear what exactly it’s for – the challenge or “delaying the restart”. Do we need more evidence that this is all just a way to hand out dubious cards dis/favouring certain teams?

The word ‘conspiracy’ has been used on ESPN, and it’s probably overdue —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbPllWG4d8w

Bobbert

Pgmol have until the next international break to make something up, don’t worry, they’ll assure us they’re still the best people for the job after an internal review- just like the cops or the idf- and it’ll cone out later they’re full of shit.

Arselinho

I’m confused now. Rewatched the highlights on Sky and they are also saying it was the foul. Pretty sure that’s not what happened.

thw14

No-one is ever sure what happened, they’re making it up as they go along.

Simon

The time between the whistle and the clearance is not enough for him to change his action. This should never be a yellow even following the letter of law.

Shivam

I agree, I know Doku should have got a yellow earlier and these refs are incompetent and inconsistent but Tross kicking the ball away there was not very intelligent when on a yellow. He could simply have been much cuter and try and hold the ball, run with it or anything rather than hoofing it to make it appear he is playing and not heard the whistle. Also, this shit rule needs to belooked at and some consistency introduced.

Rufusstan

They’d have assumed he’d heard the whistle and booked him anyway.

Sabotodd8787

The VAR audio to commentary booth said it was for the foul. Only at half time did they “correct” it.

hellsyeahhh

Didn’t Trossard kick the ball at the exact same time as the whistle?? he was defending just before the end of the half so of course his instinct is to boot it out.

dinosauras

he’s trying to send that over for Gabi to run onto – and yes – almost immediately on the whistle

Savage

Six minutes of extra time and it happened at 7m13, which is also a huge controversy.

Bil I

In both halves, the referee just kept playing until something happened for City. In the 8th minute of 6 extra in the 1st half and in the 8th minute of 7 in the 2d half. Just complete nonsense. And the US broadcasters could hear the VAR feed which confirmed Trossard’s 2d yellow was for reckless play, not for delay of game, so it’s even harder to have much respect for PGMOL after that.

Bobbert

Respect is earned, and these pricks have a long road to hoe if they want mine (by depositing all their little brown envelopes into my Swiss account)

Tobi6footplus

Howard Webb and his cohorts have already taken 4 points off us and we’re only 5 games in. Proud of the lads, chin up and we go again, against all odds ( hope l haven’t triggered blogs with the Phil Collins reference 😊)

Anderslimparisverygood

Anyone who says they wouldn’t have taken a draw at half time is lying. Yes the timing of the equaliser was frustrating but to limit this City team to so little with 10 men was amazing. Proud of everyone

Bobbert

Arteta and the players wouldn’t accept it, so why should we?

Marsenal

What a formidable defensive display from Arsenal, if only we could held on the last seconds at the end.

nanogunner

But we conceded 2 goals. F roy keane for saying that.

Arun

So proud of the team. And you could see how rattled Man City were by the end. PL is going down the wire this year. Never been more confident and proud of my team.

Xuan

I think we will wrap it up before final day..

A M

cheats cheats cheats

Botafoguense

I’m completely gutted but so impressed with that performance. Probably the grittiest version of the Arsenal I’ve witnessed in my time as a supporter.

Like White and Rice

If this had been a fair game, we would have won.
If the league was fair, we would have won it the last 2 seasons. This is how it goes in this league though.
It just sucks that the team with all the money and all the advantages keeps getting the crucial help they need from the league and the officials. I suppose if they were held accountable the way other clubs are, their front-running bandwagon-jumping fans would all go away, so the league wants to try to prevent that.

Bobbert

If the league were fair this game would have been on Monday, for a start.

Abhi

Brave brave brave performance. We had them.

Sir John King

Fuck city and all those wanky referees! Come on you Gunners!

Dombo

Fucking joke of a league. Giving reds for nothing for some teams and not to others when they do the same or worse.

When shitty equalized, haaland threw the ball to gabi’s head, which should be a fucking red. Then he barged into gabi from the restart and just got a yellow. If he’s not penalized for those, I’ll stop watching this joke of a league

Like White and Rice

None of the announcers or post-game pundits mentioned either of those incidents. Not a single word.
As we know, if an Arsenal player had done either, it would be a huge story everywhere.

Bobbert

I’m reaching the point where it’s not worth the effort I have to make as a fan on the other side of the world to watch football being ruined by a bunch of unaccountable assholes at pgmol. I’ve got limited free time and it’s time I used it for something enjoyable.

Oberon

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game where the ref just carry’s on playing way past the allotted injury time in both halves. They kept saying it’s the minimum time but refs don’t usually do that. Also yes we time wasted but 7 minutes without a big injury stoppage was also excessive.

Al Gilmore

It wasn’t a great refereeing performance but the time shown on the board mean a minimum of 7 minutes. Plus time wasted during injury time can be (and was) added on. We can have no complaints on that score.

Bobbert

Do you often find you’re a hit at social gatherings with this level of pedantry

Der32

Our players went down injured a lot to be fair. Timber, Raya, Martinelli, Calafiori off the top of my head. Injury time was fair for me. Red card was arse. And Jesus should have just cleared the ball instead of going to the corner flag ffs.

Jasonissimo

he was fouled. His heel was stepped on right under the nose of the assistant referee. Result: corner to Man115ster City.

Der32

Of course Jesus was fouled, I agree. But he coule be chokeslammed in front of the linesmen and we wouldn’t get the foul still. They should know this already. That’s why he was inviting unecessary pressure. Can’t count on the refs to be impartial unfortunately.

Shivam

Yeah that time Jesus bring the ball to our concer flag was so irritating, when the team was doing so well defensively.

Amb

Because they were knackered

Henrik

Someone said that money doesnt make you happy. I beg to differ.

Eric Blair

Lads, I think might be me done. After 35 years I just can’t do it anymore, I can’t buy into that feeling that I’m watching a fair contest. Every game I’m waiting for the inevitable refereeing atrocity, the VAR intervention which means I can’t properly celebrate a goal. The Joy’s been sucked out of it all and between family, friends, work, other hobbies, it gets harder and harder to justify spending time, money, and emotional energy on this. For what it’s worth this is the best Arsenal team I have ever seen and they’ve been robbed of two league titles… Read more »

Dombo

Feeling 100% the same. It’s just ridiculous, can’t watch the games anymore

Les Doodis

I totally agree. Can’t watch games any more, I just keep up with the live blog. Thanks Blogs and Gunnerblog for making sense of things on a Monday.

Eric Blair

Seems like more and more of a thing for fans to follow liveblogs rather than watch the match. What will be catastrophic for the PL is when casual viewers around the world tune in to Netflix instead.

Bobbert

Same, and I’ve watched nearly every match for 20+ years from the other side of the world, including writing my work and social schedules around it. Pgmol are due a reckoning.

Gav

Same. I’ve unsubscribed from Sky and BT for the first time in my life. I’m not putting any more money in their pockets. I’ve been following Arsenal since 89. This isn’t football any more. Football is a nation state’s play thing. It pains me because this is my favourite manager and I love the squad too but I have to take a stand. I’m sure I will still listen to James and Andrew but my time and money is going to be committed to other things now.

Thankyou22

Did even see that cunt Holland throwing the ball at the back of Gabriel’s head?! He obviously won’t get punished

Fatgooner

A fantastic result after a heroic performance. Yes, I know, we dropped two points at the end but a point was just about what we deserved. We defended like lions after going down to 10 men at half time and almost kept them out. Trossard is a brainless Cnut and almost certainly cost us the game. After all that happened with Rice I can’t believe that the Belgian could do something so stupid. It’s a shame that the game was ruined by that sending off: the first half was brilliant. Seven points from Spuds, Villa and City all away is… Read more »

Bleeding Gums Murphy

You the man fats. True dat

Shivam

Could call Trossard a brainless cunt, but he surely could have shown some intelligence in that place.

Shivam

*couldn’t

Blobby

Fair play Fats – agree with every word.

Grumbleduke

Michael Oliver. Previously gives Martinelli a double yellow, refuses to send off Kovacic, gets paid by the owners of city to referee abroad. What a cunt.
I’m sure I’ve missed other shit he’s pulled before too

Daveod

Doku booting a Liverpool player in the air and not giving a penalty

lovely_arse

We deserved all 3 points

Dombo

Disagree, but deserved a chance to compete for them

Der32

I don’t care what anyone says but Jesus should have cleared the ball instead of going to the corner flag. It’s all good doing that at the other end of the field, but that was just inviting pressure and purely misjudged.

Shivam

Absolute correct! The defence were dealing with the City attacks with comfort, Jesus just needed to hoof it up field rather than bringing it back and giving away a silly corner.

Boynao sou

Heroes!

Guns Up

Genuinely dispirited and wondering why I bother watching. That said, couldn’t be more proud of our boys – magnificent effort levels. Guess I answered my own question and THAT’S why I keep watching, but fuck me, the universe makes it tough.

Der32

Take it on the chin mate. The universe also gave us a Rodri injury at 1-0. This after he dived twice in 15 minutes trying to get Arsenal players sent off.

Xuan

He went down like he was shot

Bobbert

He has lead in his arse, he can’t stand up very well.

Shivam

To be fair, don’t think Ridri himself made any appeals of foul play, it was more the other 10 Citeh players.

Amb

And the pundits

Guns Up

Ha ha, fair enough!

MeSoHornsey

The pundits are killIng me saying City were poor, wtf are you on about Arsenal were magnificent in defence why can’t they be honest only Micah has pointed it out.

nanogunner

Not good defence because you conceded 2 goals. Cibai roy keane.

Bobbert

Did Roy Keane actually ever play defense or just commit assault every weekend? Asking for a friend (not paddy)

Eric Blair

I would ignore the ‘pundits’ and turn off your TV when the game’s over.

arsenish

So proud of our team! Fuck City! Its about time we start saying, “no I would not have taken a draw before the game. We will take all three after beating City at their home!” Also fuck City, bunch of cheats and fuck corrupted refs! Comon Arsenal!

Al Gilmore

I’d have taken a draw before kick off so from that point of view I’m not too disheartened but obviously to let the equaliser in so late is tough to take as we defended magnificently with 10 men. Have to say I’m not sure Trossard can have any complaints his challenge alone on Silva was worthy of a booking. He is a silly silly boy when we just needed to get in at half time a goal up. So I am not sure the booking was for kicking the ball away, but if it was it shows once again how… Read more »

Rufusstan

I’m betting no one will believe me when is say it is humid, And that’s why I’m driooing with swear

Dr. Gooner

Couldn’t watch, will do so tonight. Agree with the sentiments entirely. It’s beyond comprehensible how Arsenal can have two players sent off for delayed restarts already this campaign. My head is steaming. We win that game without that decision.

Eric Blair

Is it really ‘beyond comprehensible’ though? It’s not as if this kind of thing hasn’t happened to us a ton of times over recent years.

Mia

This is ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous. 2nd red this season for a silly reason. These refs need to be reined in. This is unreal. They’re ruining the game. Common sense must prevail, surely

Eric Blair

Common sense won’t prevail because nobody does anything about it. And don’t call me Shirley.

Goonertic

Money talks and City have unlimited funds. Oliver got paid around 20 grand for reffing a match in Saudi, probably paid by the same outfit that run City. We all want fairness, but, are we gonna get it? NO. Can anyone seriously see the oilers getting sanctioned for the 115 alleged offences? The justice you get is the justice you can afford and boy can this outfight chuck money at this

Bobbert

We didn’t play sandcastle today, we played the united Arab emirates, and while they have similar laws and governance, they are a totally separate country and entity.

Joker

Objectively it was a good result though to concede like that in virtually the last action of the game after our herculean efforts in the second half is hard to stomach. As time counted down and we got closer to the finish line it really felt fated we would hold on to win. Still, against City and the everlasting corruption of the PGMOL we ground out this result and I couldn’t be more proud. We controlled the game from a defensive perspective, made City look very ordinary and I don’t see many teams scoring against us this season. What I… Read more »

Dombo

Haaland is a piece of shit, tries to hurt players when it’s not going on for him. The two incidents today, the elbow to gabi’s head a few years ago, going berserk at refs. He will implode one day, can’t wait

Bobbert

He’s just an overgrown Wayne rooney

Rufusstan

He’s just an arrogant child who throws a tantrum when he doesn’t get his way.

Qwaliteee

He’s the Dolph Lundgren of the Premiership.

And when we ‘break him’ when we lift the title next May, it will be hilarious. If he dies, he dies.

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