Mikel Arteta goals a dig at Premier League as Arsenal boss claims the principles are actually ‘very completely different’ after the primary 15 video games the place his group have been ‘punished’

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has taken a swipe at Premier League officiating, accusing the league of inconsistency in terms of making use of the principles. 

The Gunners have been proven 5 pink playing cards this season, the joint-most of any group within the high flight, degree with Ipswich City. 

A number of of these dismissals sparked controversy, with Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard each despatched off for delaying the restart early within the marketing campaign. 

Arteta believes his gamers have been harshly punished firstly of the season, just for the interpretation of the principles to vary because the marketing campaign went on. 

The Spaniard stated: ‘The foundations initially of the season after we have been punished and after 15 video games have been very completely different’.

‘Hopefully subsequent season we’ll have some new guidelines for some video games then change them once more. That might be nice if attainable. Particularly for all of the groups the identical guidelines at the very least.’

The Gunners have been proven 5 pink playing cards this season, the joint-most within the high flight

In August, Rice was despatched off for a second bookable offence towards Brighton after kicking the ball away. 

Arsenal have been finally held to a 1-1 draw by the Seagulls, with the Gunners having led by a objective earlier than the midfielder’s forty ninth minute sending off.

Simply three weeks later, Trossard was proven a second yellow card for kicking the ball away because the Gunners dropped extra factors in a 2-2 draw with Manchester Metropolis. 

William Saliba and Myles-Lewis Skelly have additionally been despatched off in a irritating season for Arsenal, whose title problem got here to an finish final week. 

Arteta heaped reward on new champions Liverpool, saying: ‘It is good they’d no distraction. 

‘The great factor is they’d them on the pitch on a regular basis, which is one thing very constructive. 

‘And it is a membership, within the final 10, 15 years they have been constant, they’re preventing for trophies, successful huge trophies, successful the Champions League. So that they’re used to that. 

‘No person needs to be stunned as a result of they’ve the extent and so they made it as a result of they’ve performed a whole lot of issues very, very nicely. So that they should be champions.’