Really with Jesus and Nketiah out, Arsenal doesn’t have a striker at the moment. Yeah Trossard and Havertz can step up but that isn’t their focus

No question about Willock hitting Gabriel in the face after he lost the ball as well

A player with two arms on the back of another player, pushing them downwards, not looking at the ball but looking at the player they are fouling.

Any other circumstances it would be a foul.

Arteta stood by his team.

If you don’t agree with something you should say so.

People are saying he had a “meltdown” he was pissed off.

Arteta had to make a point, so that the club would make a statement, so that PGMOL would take it seriously and it would contribute to the issues raised by Liverpool last month.

If you want change than you have to be willing to initiate that change. Change doesn’t happen by sitting on your ass and feeling sorry for yourself.

Overworked? Maybe

Not being protected by the refs and getting booted in the legs or shoved to the floor off the ball? Absolutely

Him and Dan Burn should have had a few reds already this season. Not sure why they’re getting so much protection

Arteta was asked about it at the post match from their following match (after Liverpool vs Spurs, so it was after Lens vs Arsenal)

Asked if he has sympathy for Liverpool, Arteta replied: “For sure, you know at the end you want to get what you deserve. You want to minimise errors that you cannot control away from the work and the job that you do on a daily basis.”

Sounds pretty supportive to me. I’m not sure why the media are trying to twist some later quote

Get rid of PGMOL and have indifferent refs that are not all from the Manchester area