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Arsenal - Aston Villa, Today, In about 3 and a half hours.

FEBravo

We won the xG battle. What a relief!

Dom

From where I was sat, it clearly looked like it hit Havertz's forearm. You could tell from Merino's body language he thought it'd be ruled out.

And for someone who boasts about his detailed and methodical coaching, Arteta sure has a blind spot when forcing Partey into RB.

Also, Odegaard has been such a let down and I despise Emery. I never felt so depressed when he was our coach and now this game raising, dracula looking idiot haunts us from beyond the grave.

Qwiss

Gurgen it got his arm. Not everything is a conspiracy

Big Willie

Qwiss it got his arm. Not everything is a conspiracy

Though I'd like to believe that because then there's not much you can do, but watching it on replays shown by Sky Sports it looks like it went under his arm and into his midriff. I'll have to see it in slow motion to be sure but it wasn't 100% clear handball to me.

Edit: just found this. Doesn't look like it hits his hand but rather his stomach to me.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Bro it hit his hand. Check twitter. End of.

Big Willie

Sicario2 - Tier 1 Bro it hit his hand. Check twitter. End of.

Why do I need to be reading twitter when a video is right there.

IBL

I think it does hit his arm, look at the direction of the spin after impact, it's in line with his arm.

Big Willie

IBL I think it does hit his arm, look at the direction of the spin after impact, it's in line with his arm.

Maybe. It's hard to tell if it his the arm of the stomach. I can see both sides tbh.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Big Willie
Best to look at it from all angles/clips before reaching a conclusion. I know we all want to quickly blame VAR but this was not the case today.

Qwiss

Big Willie you have 1 angle in those twitter videos and it hides the arm.

Big Willie

Sicario2 - Tier 1 Best to look at it from all angles/clips before reaching a conclusion. I know we all want to quickly blame VAR but this was not the case today.

Like I said, I can see both arguments looking at the video closer. Can't say 100% whether it was his stomach or his hand. They're so close together.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Not handball. It hits the bottom of his ribcage.

USArsenal

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Look again, it went right past his ribcage and hit the arm in the back of that shot, not the arm in the front.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

It’s a handball. Let’s get over it and move forward.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

USArsenal I see it now. Makes it better somehow.

IBL

Yeah unfortunately I think that's correct, his arm also moves at the point of impact.

naz

Artetas post match comments are concerning. Sounds like he's sending a message to the board, third match in a row he does that.

Maybe you shouldn't have wasted cash on some of the useless players you brought in.

Mirth

naz tbh I think the board are within their rights to expect more ROI from Arteta

Qwiss

naz I agree but he didn't do it alone and he obviously wanted Sesko who the club/Edu failed to close.

Coombs

Mirth more than achieving the targets they set? I guarantee there was no deal that said "we'll buy you Calafiori if you win the league". Everyone said we were ahead of schedule when were flying high, so obviously nobody thought what we'd done so far would be enough. There was no follow through this summer because they were happy with where we were at, not because they wanted more "ROI".

Mirth

Coombs nothing to do with schedule, just the quality and durability of players that we’ve bought.

SimplyThePest

Coombs to be honest, I wonder if the whole "ahead of schedule" thing was used to temper the expectations of the fans for when we suddenly became competitive again. Bit of good old fashioned sandbagging.

Qwiss

Coombs Everyone said we were ahead of schedule when were flying high

Its been 5 years. We are not ahead of schedule at all.

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