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George Bennett

Why Gabriel's red card for Arsenal was overturned against Leeds United

The atmosphere reached fever pitch inside Elland Road when Chris Kavanagh pointed to the spot in stoppage time. Leeds had already missed one penalty through Patrick Bamford on the hour-mark and the Leeds forward had also had a goal controversially ruled out earlier in the half.

Gabriel was the guilty culprit when he kicked out at Bamford in the box and the Arsenal defender was shown a red card. That was until Kavanagh was summoned to the pitchside monitor to scan his eyes over the incident once more.

When he returned to the field of play, Kavanagh carried with him a yellow card, and was pointing in favour of an Arsenal free-kick. Although many were left scratching their heads, the Daily Cannon have provided their own interpretation of the controversial incident.

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