Arsenal have used their vital 1-0 win over Wolves in the Premier League as fuel to build momentum for the rest of the season.
The Gunners secured an automatic place in the last-16 of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Girona, goals coming from Jorginho and Ethan Nwaneri, who starred in the Arsenal player ratings.
However, it seems the fall out from the controversial win at Molineux is still rumbling on after Myles Lewis-Skelly had his suspension overturned from Michael Oliver’s red card decision.
It is not the first time Arsenal have felt aggrieved at a refereeing decision this season and pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have now had their say on the incident involving Lewis-Skelly.
Gary Neville claims Arsenal have ‘exaggerated’ referee decision as Jamie Carragher claims they are ‘frustrated’
Speaking via his TikTok account, Neville has claimed that the decision to send off Lewis-Skelly wasn’t the worst decision he had ever seen and felt Arsenal ‘exaggerate’ situations involving referees.
Neville stated: “They’ve become so entitled. I just feel like every time Arsenal have a bad decision go against them there is a definite exaggeration from Arsenal and their cohort of people in their sort of sphere.”
In response to Neville’s claims, fellow pundit Carragher believes that Arsenal’s continued frustration at referees could be linked to their frustration of their position in the table.
Carragher stated: “I think the situation Arsenal find themselves in the league is that it feels like they’re one game away from a crisis. Because Liverpool are where they are, there’s this frustration and this anger that this was supposed to be us.”
Arsenal have had previous poor decisions from referee Michael Oliver
A huge part of Arsenal’s ‘frustrations’ at Michael Oliver’s decision was the fact that the club have had several controversial decisions given against them in the past by the same referee.
Oliver sent off Leandro Trossard against Manchester City earlier in the season for delaying the restart and since then, there have been multiple occasions where this same offence has gone unpunished.
Whilst referees have a tough job and without them the game simply cannot be played, Mikel Arteta and the club’s frustrations stem from a lack on consistency within the officiating in the Premier League.
The Gunners have already gone down to ten men on four occasions this season, including their next opponents Man City and will know that they have to keep eleven players on the pitch to stand any chance of claiming the three points at the Emirates Stadium.
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