Ollie Watkins on Kai’s handball: “Seeing it back, I think it’s gone in favour for us. If that was against me, I’d be disappointed”
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Ollie Watkins has surprisingly suggested that Arsenal were hard done by in seeing their third goal chalked off for a handball in Saturday’s thrilling 2-2 draw.
The Gunners took the lead through Gabriel Martinelli before Kai Havertz doubled the ascendancy shortly after the break, but Youri Tielemans and Watkins netted to level up the tie.
It comes on the same day Liverpool left it late to beat Brentford and increase the deficit at the top of the table as Aston Villa once again stymied Arsenal at the Emirates.
However, with the Gunners pushing for the all-important fifth goal of the game, Havertz thought he had doubled his tally when Mikel Merino’s effort deflected off him in the closing stages of the match.
Yet after a VAR review, it was concluded that the ball had struck the German forward’s arm, rather than his midriff as Havertz had protested, and the game ended 2-2 with the points shared.
After the game, Watkins then told Sky that he was ‘not sure’ that the right decision was reached, despite it being a call that benefited his side.
‘Seeing it back there I am not sure, think it’s gone in favour for us, if that was against me I think I would be disappointed,’ he told Sky Sports. ‘From that angle I’m not sure but that’s what VAR is there for.
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