As Arsenal were leading comfortably against Leeds United, the last thing that Jesse Marsch would have wanted was to go down to ten men. However, this is exactly what happened.
Gabriel Martinelli took the ball beyond former Arsenal youth player Luke Ayling who was visibly irritated by the Brazilian’s superior ability. He went two-footed on the 20-year-old, completely missed the ball somehow and sythed down the Arsenal man.
He was initially given a yellow card, but VAR immediately instructed Chris Kavanagh to go to the monitor to reconsider his decision. This is where Alexandre Lacazette showed his fighting colours as the official looked at the footage.
