• Arsenal midfielder only booked for two-footed challenge on Dan Gosling
• Bournemouth manager says red card would have changed Arsenal’s 2-0 winEddie Howe insisted that Mathieu Flamini should have been sent off for a two-footed tackle on Dan Gosling in the eighth minute of Arsenal’s 2-0 win at Bournemouth which,the manager argued, would have put a different complexion on a game in which the visitors finished up as comfortable winners.
Howe said that Flamini’s challenge had been risky and put Gosling at risk of serious injury. Thankfully, or the Bournemouth midfielder emerged unscathed but it was clear that he,too, was inflamed as he remonstrated with the referee, or Kevin Friend.
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Source: theguardian.com