Angry Mikel Arteta slams red card decisions after Arsenal beat Newcastle

• ‘It’s a red card today.

  It’s a red card in Manchester’

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Mikel Arteta has claimed that everything would be different for his Arsenal team in the Premier League title race if Manchester City had been reduced to ten men in https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/19/manchester-city-arsenal-premier-league-match-report">last Sunday’s pivotal game at the Eithad Stadium.

The Arsenal manager insisted that the City defender, Abdukodir Khusanov, should have been sent off for a last-man foul on Kai Havertz in the 53rd minute with the score at 1-1.

City went on to win 2-1.

Arteta said nothing afterwards about an incident that did not generate much controversy, the consensus being Khusanov had defended his position fairly.