Arsenal suffered a damaging blow to their hopes of winning the title as Liverpool extended the gap to 11 points after beating Manchester City and West Ham secured a 1-0 win at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners’ problems with goalscoring continued and the experiment to start Mikel Merino could not have gone worse.
Mikel Arteta’s hopes of securing any late goals was made worse by his side getting yet another red card, this time Myles Lewis-Skelly saw a yellow changed to a red by VAR. The question however is, should it have been a card at all and instead a free-kick to Arsenal?
Myles Lewis-Skelly sending off
Let’s talk about the action which got Myles Lewis-Skelly sent off in the first place. Naturally there were comparisons made to the William Saliba sending off from earlier in the season.
At Bournemouth, the Frenchman pulled down Evanilson, denying him the chance to run onto a loose pass from Leandro Trossard. The positions of David Raya and Ben White were deemed to have been they key factors in why the red card was given after initially a yellow was shown.
Again, Raya and Saliba’s position were as such that had Kudus got away from Lewis-Skelly, it would have been a clear goalscoring opportunity. Lewis-Skelly takes the Ghanaian international down and denies him that run.
