Leandro Trossard became the latest Arsenal player to be sent off for delaying the restart of play after kicking the ball away following a free kick awarded against the team.
Trossard featured in Arsenal’s lineup against Manchester City, playing in an unfamiliar midfield role as Mikel Arteta looked to maximise his available options.
The Belgian received two yellow cards in the first half, leading to his dismissal and leaving Arsenal in a tough spot.
Trossard’s second yellow card, which resulted in his sending off, was widely regarded as a poor decision on his part. Fans were surprised that he would risk being sent off when already on a booking.
After the game, most fans and pundits agreed that Trossard had only himself to blame. According to Mirror Football, the Belgian explained to his teammates in the dressing room that he didn’t hear the referee’s whistle.
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Trossard must take responsibility for his yellow card and do better in his next matches for the team.
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Arsenal must wake up quickly to understand discipline is paramount this year!. A distinct lack of it has cost us four points and a top spot in the table.
The time wasting and delaying tactics have to be deployed more maturely. Within the rules of the game as they stand.
I believe that completely tbh – he didn’t exactly have much time to take in the fact the whistle had been blown, and it was in a loud stadium. Less than a second in the heat of the moment? I do think the ref should have given him the benefit of the doubt there.
It’s like giving away a penalty when someone kicks the ball at your hand from close range – how can you say it’s your fault? How can you learn from it and do better next time? It just happened.
That’s true
Wasting time when Silva was down. There was an injured player.How do you wast time.
Good point
Ya all might be right but the wouldn’t have issued him a second yellow card. Instead he would have given him the last chance
We saw in Man City game, when Doku kicked the ball away a few minutes from Trosard. We saw it against Brighton. Last weekend with Chelsea, a player was clearly pulled to the ground in the penalty area. What makes Arsenal cases do special?
If Trossard was telling the truth to his team mates, then the sending off seems incredibly harsh.
I was unable to watch the game, but on reading reams of JA posts, it seems to be a cross section who think he deliberately kicked the ball away and got his just desserts, as opposed to those who felt the whistle was being blown within a nano second of Trossard kicking the ball and was, therefore, harsh in the extreme.
We all crave consistency, but there is precious little of it about. Referees in general must surely work harder to ensure that consistency is applied. It can’t really be that difficult, can it?
I find it really odd, SueP – Rice clearly knew what he was doing Vs Brighton, it was really obvious (to me at least), but there’s so much reasonable doubt with this one, and yet rice seemingly got a lot more support both from arsenal fans and media. I really don’t get it. It seemed the consensuses leaned towards rice was hard done by and trossard was stupid, whereas i really think it was clearly the other way around, if anything.
What he told his teammates? “Sorry” would be a start, I think.
Regardless of what anyone else did, it was a stupid thing to do.
Bertie
Do I take it then from your post that you believe he “did it” on purpose and is now trying to worm his way out of his responsibility for getting sent off?
I trust Trossard, apparently you don’t
Thing is, if he actually passed the ball to a player and then said he didn’t hear the whistle, then it’s a harsh call. However, he hoofs the ball aimlessly, which doesn’t back up his case.
He didn’t just hoof it though – it didn’t actually go too far and martinelli could easily have run onto it. And city didn’t have much in defence..
play to the whistle they always say, but this was like a margin offside, this was Trossard barging in to a Man C player with enough force to potentially warrant a yellow alone
it goes back to giving the ref a decision to make, just like Rice
and may be a different ref on different day would not have blown for a second yellow, just like Rice
but two weeks after Rice we should have learned our lesson
and quite frankly Arsenal ‘dark arts’ did not suddenly appear on Sunday, there has been a steady increase of playing on the edge and sadly when you earn yourself a reputation the benefit of the doubt does not always go with you