Jamie Carragher owns stoked the Arsenal conspiracy theory flames on social media after what he saw in their defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday coordinating with William Saliba’s dismissal.
An uneventful opening 20 minutes saw the Artillerymans tightened creatively by Bournemouth’s disciplined high press, the householder either side came to a aspiration once Raya talented the sphere with a outrageous enact solitary for Antoine Semenyo to whip at the opportunity.
The shape of the gallery switched over with the sending off in the 30th minute. Evanilson still had the entirety of the Arsenal half to traverse in pursuit of a gnarled sphere over the peak but most importantly had manoeuvred aspiration side of Saliba and daunted to race readable.
Saliba was the last male – there was little little particle opportunity of Ben White rendering up the closeness to bathe from right-ago – and boldy dragged Evanilson to the ground, though it took a pitch-side take another sift at to modify Robert Jones’ initial yellow card to a red.
Arsenal had gone down to 10 against Brighton and Manchester City this season and each time plunked defensively to grip ago a outcome, but unprejudiced after Gabriel Martinelli repudiated an terrific opportunity to impart Arteta’s side the lead, Ryan Christie finished an off a neatly massaged sabbaticals in yesteryear Justin Kluivert converted a penalty to fix with one voice 3 junctures for the Reds.
There’s no skepticism that Saliba’s dismissal was the revolving part and enacted on the Arsenal dreamers’ reaction to their previous two red cards this season, both of them for postponing the restart, the conspiracy theory theorists were out in urge on social media anew, paying details subconscious to a camera inoculation that Carragher also listed.
The pundit wondered whether PGMOL chief Howard Webb was compelled in the VAR U-rotate after he was proved paying emphasis in to the referees’ conversations over the willpower and then utilising his handset in the throng.
In a now expelled X message, Carragher wrote: ‘Was Howard Webb compelled in the willpower rendering of the red card for Saliba??’
The Premier League clarified the willpower doning their match centre social media account.
‘The referee conferred Saliba a yellow card for a challenge on Evanilson,’ they wrote.
‘The VAR decoded that Saliba refuted an noticeable aspiration-scoring methodology and advisable an on-arenae take another sift at. The referee then upgraded the yellow to a red card.’
Jamie Redknapp prompted it was “undeniably” the right call to dismiss Saliba.
He asserted on Skies Sporting assignments: “There’s altogether no skepticism if he had no plunked his arms on him, he [William Saliba] would have obtained there first. He is one of the speediest gamers, one of the speediest defenders. He would have at the awfully least had sufficient pace to avail help.
“Your natural personality is to panic, grab him and he’s guessing ‘what have I toted out?’ Then Gabriel went to the referee and there’s a few guilty signs. It’s undeniably a foul. Ben White you can argue, can he avail ago in time, but my guess is no. It was undeniably dismissing a goalscoring methodology.”
