‘Rules have to be same for all’: Lopetegui hits out at Arsenal’s set-piece strategy

Gabriel Magalhães (centre) was a constant threat from set pieces against West Ham and scored Arsenal’s first goal. Photograph: Pedro Porru/SPP/Shutterstock

While Mikel Arteta delighted in Arsenal’s third win in succession, to climb back to second in the Premier League, his fellow Basque Julen Lopetegui was annoyed by the Gunners’ use of unfair means at corners in West Ham’s 5-2 derby defeat.

The damage was done to the Hammers in a first half in which a Premier League record-equalling seven goals were scored, and Lopetegui, his future uncertain after such a heavy defeat, felt at least two of Arsenal’s goals should have been disallowed. “I think that we deserved two goals in the first half but they didn’t deserve five,” he said.