OUTRAGED Arsenal fans claim Chelsea’s Tosin Adarabioyo escaped a red card for an identical offence to William Saliba’s sending-off 24 hours earlier.
Tosin ended Diogo Jota’s surge through at Liverpool – just like Saliba had done when fouling Evanilson at Bournemouth on Saturday.
AFPTosin Adarabioyo was only shown the yellow card for his foul on Diogo Jota[/caption]
But referee John Brooks only dished out a yellow card to the Blues’ defender – a decision blasted as “laughable” by many Arsenal supporters.
One fan claimed: “No different to Saliba’s red card yesterday, but no VAR intervention. Why? Jota was away on goal.”
Another posted: “Saliba got a red for the exact same thing yesterday?”
A third argued: “If Tosin isn’t worried that Jota is in, he wouldn’t foul him. It’s a stone wall red.”
And a fourth added: “The refs in this country are a joke.”
But some supporters of other clubs hit back – insisting there WAS a clear difference between the two incidents in the middle of the pitch.
They reckon Saliba was definitely the last man – whereas Tosin’s team-mate Levi Colwill might have caught Jota.
One fan wrote: “Saliba was the last man, Tosin would get a red if Colwill wasn’t in close proximity. He got bailed out by Colwill.”
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Another put it more concisely: “Colwill close enough, Saliba was on his own.”
And a third was even more blunt: “Teammate proximity, Never a red.”
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