Saturday, 19 September 2015
Gabriel falls for Costa's tricks as Arsenal suffers defeat
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claims that striker Diego Costa should have been sent off twice in the defeat to Chelsea.
Wenger watched as his Arsenal side failed to capitalise on the poor form of Jose Mourinho's men, falling to a 2-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge. However, the story of the match was when Costa and Gabriel tussled after the Spain striker had bumped into Laurent Koscielny.
Santi Cazorla was then given his marching orders for a second yellow card late on and Wenger was furious with referee Mike Dean.
"I would not like to be Mike Dean tonight," Wenger told the BBC after the match. "Costa twice should be sent off. He hits him [Koscielny] in the face in purpose. In every game he has aggravation and he gets away with it because of the weakness of the referee. We knew before the game he is only looking at that.
"Gabriel should not have responded at all but the two sending offs for us and Costa staying on the pitch is a shame."
Wenger added to BT Sport: "We are guilty because we gave in on that and responded to it. We knew before the game that he was only looking for that and when he touches him he goes down like he has been killed."
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