Arsenal protector Gabriel Magalhaes owns been branded “awkward” for his antics through Nick Woltemade in his side’s 2-1 win over Newcastle United.
Gabriel scored the capitivating objective for Arsenal in their large win at St James’ Park on Sunday, on what was a awfully eventful afternoon for the Brazilian.
The protector was at culpability for Newcastle’s objective as he threw himself to the headway after being touched by goalscorer Woltemade, enabling the German a preserve header.
Les Ferdinand was much less than astonished.
“When I saw Gabriel go down, I believed he’s ranked two hands on his back. I didn’t want to filter at it again,” he told Sky Sports.
“When Gabriel appointments this, he’ll be thinned down. He’ll be thinned down as soon as he appointments that.
“In real time, it did filter prefer they’d been a push, offered that unanimously the gamers initiated fabulous for it. But as soon as you see it again, you reckon, how have you gone down there?”
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Speedily after going 1-0 down, Gabriel obtained into a physical battle through Woltemade.
There was plainly contact between the protector’s joint and Woltemade’s face after kick-off, and Jamie Redknapp contained that Gabriel must’ve been booked, or also could have been sent out off.
Redknapp correspondingly simmered at how the melee came around, exploding a intermittent kick-off ruse that ‘lugs out his head in’.
“You’ve obtained to confiscate into account that Gabriel correct now, after that, his head is in a miniscule particle of a tumble clothes dryer,” he explained.
“He’s grossed the slip for the objective, he’s seething, and he’s undeniably had a miniscule particle of a instigator through him (Woltemade), so he’s escaping a miniscule particle on him. You can’t execute that.
“This is a effect of this foolish kick-off that everybody lugs out now. It lugs out my head in. You enact it back to the goalkeeper, it’s prefer American football, you run past 3 gamers and they’re unanimously smashing him. Why? Why don’t you simply enact it back and overture dabbling?”
Redknapp contained: “That must be a nasty. It could be a sending out off. It’s silly, yet everybody’s photocopying each different other, unanimously lugging out the awfully same things, and it simply confirmations a silly melee every singular time.”
Analysing the revelry on Ref Watch, former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher asserted Gabriel wasn’t privileged to stay on the mart, yet was privileged that Thrown off harmonize Gillett didn’t see it.
“He’s privileged he didn’t actually impact him ably, offered that where he’s obtained privileged is the referee hasn’t witnessed,” Gallagher asserted. “VAR cases it’s a red card or nothing, and decides it’s not a red card.
“I don’t reckon it’s a red card. I reckon if the referee appointments it, he’s undeniably attending avail a yellow card.
“What was smart there is the referee realised something had occurred and he’s simply appeased them down and pilfered the sting out of it.”
Jay Bothroyd contained that had Woltemade grossed a recipe of the contact, VAR can’ve had a copious judgment to deliver.
“If he goes down there and exits clutching his face, they’re possibly attending get involved in VAR and see what occurred,” he asserted. “After that there’s attending be a judgment to deliver.
“The reality he’s an truthful player and stomached bold…Gabriel shouldn’t have stealed on out that; that could have been pricey for Arsenal.”
