We Could Be 6 Points CLEAR! (Jason) | Arsenal 1-0 Hull

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They were never going to make it easy for a team that's just played during the week. No, look, and I think some of those sides, particularly like your Forest and your Hulls, who set up with a back five, don't want to come out of their shape, come here for the point, and they defended really well. They were very, very, very resolute in their shape. We didn't really do enough in the first half to move them around or to kind of ask questions of them. I think our XG was incredibly low. Thank you very much. I think we still had the same problem that we had in the Forest game where Odegaard's dropping quite deep. And when you've got a Bruno and a Rice, you're not necessarily getting enough players to ask questions of three centre-halves. And you're then asking a lot of Havertz to kind of try and occupy three centre-halves. In the second half, we made a little bit of a tweak. Timber played a little bit higher. We were able to get numbers a little bit closer to the centre-forward. Marino comes on, does the same job. Then when you can isolate your winger 1v1, you get those situations where Nonny creates something. Goalkeeper spills and Odegaard's there to put it in the back of the net. So you're talking very fine margins. People are criticising us. Look at City's last three games. They've lost their last two games and they're currently behind now. And our fans in that situation would be going absolutely mental. So it's just something about having a little bit of patience and understanding that this is a marathon. And like you said... We've had a really, really, really solid start to the season. And if we can start to keep getting over the line, that's what you want and expect to decide. Now, over the last week, what we've seen a lot of is people criticising and talking about refereeing decisions. And I think there were two today that I really, really, really want to focus on. The first is Coyle not getting a second yellow card for that tackle. Hull realised and took him off absolutely straight away. He got him straight away. I mean, listen, let me just say, right, one thing I was told by a referee, that the bar for a second yellow is very high. Because they don't want to send off loads of players. I think that says it all, Robbie, doesn't it? Hey, Nigel Forrest, stop interrupting my interviews. No, no, you can interrupt them more. Come on! So it's 2-0 Forrest? Yes, 2-0 Forrest, Robbie. We'll go into that. But yeah, um... Referees say that the bar's very high for a second yellow, but... That looked like that was high. The bar might be high, but if it's a yellow card tackle, it's a yellow card tackle. The other one that I think will be spoken about was the penalty that wasn't given on Havertz. Now, I know that in the stadium they announced that Havertz was offside and as a result of that they couldn't... Havertz was offside and as a result of that they couldn't give the... But that's not the rule. The rule is actually that Havertz wasn't looking to play the ball and therefore he isn't offside. Had we not got over the line in that one, I think there'd be really, really, really big debates. It'd be really interesting to see what happens in the Sky discussions and the BBC discussions. My thing was, right, if he's offside... This is my thing, they had ages to look at that, right, because the ball was still in play and stuff like that. Why then send the referee to the screen if you know he's offside? Why not just say, actually... Oh, he's offside. There's no point in sending him to the... I didn't get that. I think we'll see a lot over the next 24, 48 hours about that being the wrong decision. And that's difficult in this level, in this league, when you've got sides like Hull that come out and they're so hard to break down. You get an opportunity to break them down and the referees make such a horrendous decision. But they've got all the time in the world. They can refer to the rule, but they can literally pull it up and kind of play through the scenario. Sorry, I was so... That's really frustrating, and it's really lucky that we're not talking about it, but you know, three points, we go into an international break, the last international break was the Brighton game, and this feels very, very, very different, so I'm really, really happy with where we are.