- Arsenal followers have claimed Lewis Dunk was ‘bodied’ by Bukayo Saka on Saturday
- Saka and Dunk collided in an aerial duel earlier than the winger arrange Kai Havertz
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Arsenal followers have claimed Lewis Dunk was ‘bodied’ by Bukayo Saka after the Gunners winger received an aerial duel in opposition to the Brighton centre again earlier than teeing Kai Havertz up for the north London membership’s opening purpose.
Saka appeared to get the higher of Dunk because the pair challenged for a excessive ball contained in the Brighton half.
The Arsenal winger appeared to leap to win the header, making contact with the 6ft 4in centre again and doing sufficient to push him away from the ball.
With the ball falling behind the pair, Saka turned to regain possession earlier than clipping a cross forwards to Havertz. The German attacker subsequently produced a sensational lob, catching Bart Verbruggen off his line to place the house aspect 1-0 up.
Followers although have taken to X (previously Twitter) to query how Saka was capable of get the higher of Dunk within the aerial problem.
Arsenal followers have claimed Lewis Dunk was ‘bodied’ by Bukayo Saka after the Gunners winger received an aerial duel in opposition to the Brighton centre again
Saka would go on to feed the ball to Kai Havertz who lobbed Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen to seal the Gunners’ opener
One wrote: ‘Dunk getting bodied by Saka. Please do not examine this man to Marc Guehi, no surprise he was the water boy within the Euros.’
One other added: ‘How has Lewis Dunk misplaced out within the air to Saka although.’
‘Dunk bullied off the ball by Saka,’ one wrote with a number of crying faces, whereas one other added: ‘It was poor from Dunk, he was out muscled by the 5ft 6in Saka.’
After half-time, Arsenal continued to threaten earlier than Mikel Arteta’s aspect had been despatched all the way down to 10 males, with Declan Rice being despatched off for a second yellow card.
It was a controversial incident, with Rice showing to conflict with Joel Veltman earlier than the Brighton participant kicked out on the Arsenal midfielder, who fell to the bottom.
Rice was subsequently proven one other yellow card for his half within the incident, earlier than having to depart the sphere.
With additional numbers on the sphere, Brighton would pile on stress and pull a purpose again. Yankuba Minteh crashed into the Arsenal field and had his shot saved by David Raya.
However the Arsenal goalkeeper defelected the ball straight into the trail of Joao Pedro who fired the ball into the again of the online.
After the sport, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta fumed at officers for a scarcity of consistency, when he was pressed on Rice’s sending off.
‘I used to be amazed. Amazed, amazed, amazed due to how inconsistent choices might be,’ the Spaniard mentioned throughout his post-match press convention.
‘Within the first half, there are two incidents and nothing occurs. Then, in a non-critical space, the ball hits Declan (on the again of his leg), he turns round, he does not see the participant coming and he touches the ball.
‘By regulation, he [the referee] could make that decision, however then by regulation he must make the subsequent name, which is crimson card so we play 10 vs 10. That is what amazed me. At this stage it is superb.’
