Arsenal legend Ian Wright has heavily criticised Bruno Guimaraes for his antics in Newcastle’s win over the Gunners yesterday.
There seems a decent argument that Guimaraes could have been sent off for elbowing Jorginho in the first half, but he managed to stay on the pitch.
“There is no reason for him to be challenging Jorginho like this,” said Wright. “Look how away he is. The ball has gone. His arm doesn’t need to be up.
“I can’t understand why that isn’t a yellow card and they aren’t looking at that. He is trying to hurt him there.
“You know something that could easily be given as a red card. There is no reason for his arm to be there. What’s he doing? His intention is to hurt him. It’s not like it’s a challenge and your arm has flailed. The ball has gone, he has no reason to do that. None!
“He is lucky that he hasn’t caught him in the temple or something. It’s a bad challenge.”
Ian Wright is of course right and it is obviously worth at least a yellow card. It was also obvious that protests by Newcastle players was also worth the yellow cards. Just a question……Any remarks after the match by Artita…..how much of a ban is that worth?
Nothing mentioned about the two footed challenge though???
Here we go again, no mention of Havertz should of seen red, typical Arsenal Bias, Arsenal had one shot on target the whole game, all this moaning is just deflecting from a great fighting battle from Newcastle, the referee was very poor especially first half and gave Arsenal the majority of decisions. When Havertz assaulted Longstaff, three Newcastle players got booked for approaching the Ref, when The check for the Goal was going on, all of the Arsenal team were surrounding the Ref and yet not one card was branded, the one thing I do agree with Arteta is the refereeing needs to be of a higher standard.