We were waiting to see whether Anthony Taylor was being sent to his pitchside monitor to take a look at Moises Caicedo’s challenge on Mikel Merino when an almighty yell emerged from the Arsenal bench. They had already watched it back on their own iPads and, well, weren’t happy.
Mikel Arteta’s assistants Albert Stuivenberg and Gabriel Heinze led the complaints committee with fourth official Sam Barrott. Set-piece specialist Nicolas Jover performed VAR hand signals towards Taylor. Even Kepa Arrizabalaga, Arsenal’s back-up goalkeeper formerly of Chelsea, went over for a word with Barrott while a few other analysts also voiced their anger.