I try to avoid blaming referees for sneaking their biases into games. But sometimes it's impossible to avoid suspicion. Like Mike Dean before him, Michael Oliver seems to have a proclivity to red card Gunners for stuff that no one on any other team gets ejected for. The sending-off of Myles Lewis-Skelly in the first half was nigh universally looked on with disbelief. It was a cynical trip, not the "violent conduct" Oliver claimed. VAR did not send him to the monitor. But an Arsenal appeal of the three game ban was accepted and the ban removed by an independent review panel. Fortunately, Arsenal weathered the half hour we were a man down, and after one of their guys was sent off for a second yellow (a foul way more violent that MLS's), we scrambled in a goal courtesy of a fine shot by Riccardo Calafiori. It means we're still in second, albeit far behind Liverpool.
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