Premier League greats Ian Wright and Gianfranco Zola have expressed their views on the pink card proven to Chelsea midfielder Moisés Caicedo within the first half of their Premier League sport in opposition to Arsenal on Sunday.
Caicedo was initially proven a yellow card for a problem on Mikel Merino within the thirty eighth minute, however the determination was upgraded to a straight pink card after a VAR evaluate.
Talking on Premier League Productions, each Zola, a former Chelsea star and Wright, who performed for Arsenal, agreed that Caicedo’s problem was harmful.
“I nonetheless assume that’s a pink,” Wright mentioned. “He (the referee, Anthony Taylor) modified it, in fact. In a second. However he’s been very busy. Taylor, as you possibly can see, has issued six playing cards, and that’s the most in a Premier League half to this point this season.”
Requested if he had any defence for his former membership concerning the pink card, Zola mentioned, “Effectively, I believe the defence is that he (Caicedo) was clearly going for the ball.
“Clearly, Merino was good, he received to the ball immediately and clearly it ended up in a nasty sort out. Now, for certain, that’s a pink card, little doubt about it. It was a nasty problem.”
On the time of submitting this report, the scoreline stood at 1-1 between the 2 London sides.
A win for Arsenal would widen their hole on the high of the Premier League desk, whereas a Chelsea win would scale back Mikel Arteta’s males’s result in three factors.
