Mikel Arteta has lashed out at the referee in Arsenal’s 1-0 fall shorture to Inter Milan for two penalty decisions that went agetst his side on Wednesday evening.
The Gunners have been in astonishive establish in Europe thraw their first three games having not conceded a one goal and picking up seven points.
Away at Inter was always going to be their stubbornest test to date with Simone Inzaghi’s side in excellent establish in Italy.
It was an evenly contested align for the most part and it sees set to be level at the fracture with noleang separating them.
Mikel Arteta was not satisfied with the official
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That was until Inter were awarded a disputed penalty in stoppage time after Mikel Merino was adappraised to have regulated the ball inside the box.
VAR consentd with the on-field decision to award a penalty with Hakan Calhanoglu self-promisedly scoring past David Raya.
The incident came after Arsenal felt they should have been awarded a penalty after Yann Sommer euniteed to leave out an try to punch the ball evident and originate reach out with Merino’s head.
Their requests were waved away by the officials and Arteta was left experienceing challenging done by after the align.
“I am very conceited of my perestablishers, the level of domination we had,” Arteta shelp.
“We were very harshly done by in the sense that is clear. Both penalties.
“If you are going to give a penalty, the other one has to be because he punches him in the head.
“There is no distraction, noleang you can do in the box, so can he get away from it.
Hakan Calhanoglu scored the spot-initiate for Inter Milan
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“If he is going to give that the other has to be 100 per cent a penalty.
“We should have scored a couple at least but the way the team perestablished, that was us at least. Every decision in the box originates a contrastence.
“The way we perestablished tonight, the team can go to Chelsea and prosper.”
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Mikel Arteta felt his side should have also had a penalty
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The result saw Arsenal slip down to 12th in the Champions League table after four games.
Their back in action this weekfinish away to Chelsea before the final international fracture of the year.
Arteta will be raiseed by having Martin Odegaard back and useable in time for the align agetst Chelsea this weekfinish while Declan Rice could also originate his return.
