{"id":945753,"date":"2026-10-30T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:22:10","slug":"max-dowman-to-miss-three-games-after-arsenals-red-card-appeal-rejected-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945753\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Dowman to miss three games after Arsenal\u2019s red card appeal rejected | Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Arsenal\u2019s appeal against Max Dowman\u2019s red card in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/27\/fleetwood-town-arsenal-carabao-cup-fourth-round-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their Carabao Cup defeat at Fleetwood<\/a> and the three-match suspension imposed has been rejected by an independent commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 16-year-old Dowman was sent off for a kick out at Harrison Neal following a bruising tackle in the 85th minute of the game, which Fleetwood won on penalties after a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Arsenal subsequently lodged an appeal, but the Football Association confirmed on Thursday an independent commission had dismissed claims of both wrongful dismissal and excessive punishment for Dowman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As a result, Dowman will be suspended for Sunday\u2019s Premier League trip to Liverpool as well as their home game with Hull and trip to Newcastle either side of the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The FA said the written reasons for the commission\u2019s decision to dismiss the claims would be published in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, said after Tuesday\u2019s match he had not spoken to Dowman about his dismissal, but added: \u201cWhen we prepared the context of the match, we were very clear on the things to respect, the things that emotionally we have to dominate, it was very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">After Fleetwood\u2019s keeper, Jay Lynch, saved Bruno Guimar\u00e3es\u2019 penalty, 19-year-old defender Conor Haughey stepped up to fire the hosts into the quarter-finals with one of the biggest upsets in the competition\u2019s history. Fleetwood will host another Premier League side, Everton, in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Arsenal fell behind to Aaron Loupalo-Bi\u2019s 21st-minute strike in a disjointed first-half performance after Arteta made nine changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The captain, Martin \u00d8degaard, came on at half-time and Viktor Gy\u00f6keres quickly levelled, but Dowman was dismissed before Lynch starred in the shootout to secure a memorable victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s appeal against Max Dowman\u2019s red card in their Carabao Cup defeat at Fleetwood and the three-match suspension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-945753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}