{"id":417553,"date":"2026-04-30T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:41:14","slug":"arteta-left-incredibly-fuming-after-var-denies-arsenal-penalty-against-atletico-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417553\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta left \u2018incredibly fuming\u2019 after VAR denies Arsenal penalty against Atl\u00e9tico | Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mikel Arteta described \u00adhimself as \u201cincredibly fuming\u201d after \u00adArsenal were denied a penalty that might have\u00a0given them a lead to take from\u00a0the first leg of their \u00adChampions League semi-final<\/a> against \u00adAtl\u00e9tico\u00a0Madrid.<\/p>\n

With the score at 1-1 in the 78th minute, the Dutch referee Danny\u00a0Makkelie pointed to the spot after the Atl\u00e9tico defender David Hancko caught Eberechi Eze, who was on as a substitute for Arsenal<\/a>, with a late tackle.<\/p>\n

But to Arteta\u2019s horror, \u00adMakkelie changed his mind after seeing what\u00a0looked to be 12 or 13 replays of the incident on the pitchside monitor. The official appeared to decide that the contact was not strong enough.<\/p>\n

Makkelie had already awarded two penalties \u2013 one for Arsenal for a Hancko foul on Viktor Gy\u00f6keres, which was hotly contested by \u00adAtl\u00e9tico. Gy\u00f6keres scored. And one\u00a0for Atl\u00e9tico for a Ben White \u00adhandball that he knew very little about, the ball blasted at him by Marcos Llorente. Juli\u00e1n Alvarez converted. The match finished 1-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were disappointed for the Atl\u00e9tico penalty,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cIn\u00a0the\u00a0Premier League, it\u2019s not a penalty but here I have to accept that with the rules and how consistent they\u2019ve been, I accept that this is a handball.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m incredibly \u00adfuming with\u00a0is how the hell the penalty on Ebs\u00a0gets overturned in the \u00admanner that it happened when there is no clear\u00a0and obvious error. This\u00a0changes\u00a0the course of the game. And at this level, I\u2019m sorry but this cannot happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cA very clear explanation of the decision is what happens for a period of time [when] a referee has to watch it 13 times. What\u2019s more clear than that? It\u2019s impossible and we are all fuming about it. We need to apply the rules \u2026 [the way] they applied the rules on Ben White\u2019s penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have fought so hard for nine months to be in this \u00adposition \u2026 I mean, that\u2019s another goal that changed completely the course of the tie. And it cannot happen. We put so much on it. So, so, so much on it. This cannot happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is clear contact. If you make that decision, you cannot overturn that decision. When you have to look at it 13 times \u2026 at this level it\u2019s \u00adcompletely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arteta was pleased by how his players coped with a hostile atmosphere at the Metropolitano Stadium. The second leg is in north London next Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m very proud,\u201d Arteta said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen some of the best teams in the world fall apart here and concede three and four. We didn\u2019t get the result we wanted. But at least it is in our hands, in front of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta described \u00adhimself as \u201cincredibly fuming\u201d after \u00adArsenal were denied a penalty that might have\u00a0given them a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-417553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}