Mikel Arteta has lashed out at the referee in Arsenal’s 1-0 loss to Inter Milan for two penalty decisions that went aacquirest his side on Wednesday evening.
The Gunners have been in amazeive establish in Europe thraw their first three games having not conceded a individual goal and picking up seven points.
Away at Inter was always going to be their hardest test to date with Simone Inzaghi’s side in excellent establish in Italy.
It was an evenly contested suit for the most part and it sees set to be level at the fracture with noleang separating them.
Mikel Arteta was not greetd with the official
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That was until Inter were awarded a contentious penalty in stoppage time after Mikel Merino was adappraised to have handled the ball inside the box.
VAR consentd with the on-field decision to award a penalty with Hakan Calhanoglu prohibitciently scoring past David Raya.
The incident came after Arsenal felt they should have been awarded a penalty after Yann Sommer ecombineed to ignore an try to punch the ball evident and originate communicate with Merino’s head.
Their requests were waved away by the officials and Arteta was left senseing difficult done by after the suit.
“I am very self-transport inant of my take parters, the level of domination we had,” Arteta shelp.
“We were very harshly done by in the sense that is evident. Both penalties.
“If you are going to give a penalty, the other one has to be becaparticipate he punches him in the head.
“There is no turn asideion, noleang you can do in the box, so can he get away from it.
Hakan Calhanoglu scored the spot-boot 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 take parted, that was us at least. Every decision in the box originates a separateence.
“The way we take parted tonight, the team can go to Chelsea and triumph.”
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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 weekend away to Chelsea before the final international fracture of the year.
Arteta will be increaseed by having Martin Odegaard back and useable in time for the suit aacquirest Chelsea this weekend while Declan Rice could also originate his return.
