Leandro Trossard put Arsenal in a difficult situation after being sent off for a second bookable offence in their match against Manchester City.
The Belgian started the game in midfield, replacing Martin Odegaard, who missed the match due to injury.
Trossard is typically one of Arsenal’s most impactful players when coming off the bench, but he struggled in this starting role.
He received two bookings, with the second—just before halftime—being particularly avoidable.
The former Brighton man was sent off for kicking the ball away after the referee had blown the whistle for a foul he committed.
Michael Owen commented that while the booking may have seemed harsh had it been someone else, Trossard’s decision to commit the foul and then kick the ball away made little sense.
He said on Premier League productions:
“If somebody else had made that foul and then kicked it [referee Michael Oliver] might not notice it, but he created a foul, a reckless foul, he heard the whistle, then kicked it away. He’s got nobody to blame but himself.”
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That was a terrible mistake that Trossard did not have to make, and he knows he has let his team down, so he will be careful next time.
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Doku committed same offense and the ref looked away. To me EPL refs are not been consistent they favour city most times there are many fouls that city commits but they don’t blow it even against Chelsea 2 penalties but they didn’t blow it
He never learned from Rice mistake, who knows we might have won with 11 on the pitch.
Sure he didn’t and cost the team a milestone victory.
If only arsenal players could realize that all eyes are on them, they would be more careful especially when they are on yellow. That challenge at almost at center of the pitch was not a threat. Why would he got involved in that? Carelessness Rice in our match against Brighton and this have caused us 4 points already. By now, they should have realized that some of the FA rules were made specifically to stop arsenal because, I don’t know why other teams won’t be punished for similar offence.
Arteta should be more ruthless in his decisions. One would have expected him to remove Trossard earlier moreso, when he was not really in the game. Leaving players for too long before making substitutions has been counter productive.
Having said, I salute the courage, discipline, compactness and determination of our players to see out the game. They have proven that they are the real deal. Playing City on equal terms is not easy not to talk of one man down.
So you expect MA, to have subbed off LEO earlier? By what time?10mins, 20mins, I don’t seem to understand you. The incident occured a minute before the half time. And you claimed that it was too late to sub a player. Even when the team was leading. I don’t know why you people must always find a fault in the MANAGER.
Yeah but we gotta up our game on the discipline front. Looks like we are lacking in that department and consequently giving advantage to the opposition and that’s unfair to the rest of the team. Obviously 🙄😜 Trossard didn’t learn anything from the pickpocketing prank
In my view, if it looked like he was passing the ball it may have been different. The fact that he hoofed the ball aimlessly makes it clear he was doing it for the sake of it. For me it’s clearly a second yellow.
The problem I have is that Doku did the same and went unpunished, that’s what really bothers me.
Need consistency with these big calls.
Doku passed the ball towards where Oliver was indicating. He was not preventing a restart, but infact assisting one.
I personally think that Trossard thought the ref had blown for half time!
The inconsistency is what is troubling. Twice Arsenal have been penalized, and twice in those games opponents have not been carded for the exact same offense.
Arsenal should ask PGMOL for clarification, just to put them on the hot seat for glaring inconsistencies.
Right or wrong, common sense surely demands that Arteta needs to read the riot act about players even suggesting that they are going to kick the ball away in those circumstances.
It doesn’t make a jot of difference if players from other teams have or have not been carded for doing it. Arsenal players have (both at great cost in the games concerned) – and that’s all that matters.
To misquote Oscar Wilde: one may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness!
Nice one Bertie.We have to keep eleven players on the park and it’s up to Arteta to get this message across.