Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice has doubled down on Mikel Arteta’s penalty outrage by insisting his team should have been awarded a “clear” spot-kick – and claimed the referee at the centre of the controversy was “provoked” to change his mind by Atletico Madrid’s hostile fans.
Arteta was incandescent after his side’s 1-1 draw in the opening leg of their Champions League semi-final in the Spanish capital on Wednesday after referee Danny Makkelie overturned his original decision to award the visitors a late penalty when Eberechi Eze was upended in the area.
