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Arteta tight-lipped on Dowman's red card at Fleetwood

The sixteen-year-old was sent off in a loss to League Two side Fleetwood Town, a result Arsenal could not fix with nineteen shots off target.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorArsenal lose at Fleetwood Town, a League Two side, and the talk is about a sixteen-year-old.

  2. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorMax Dowman was sent off for violent conduct with about five minutes left.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLevel with five minutes left. Nobody sent off the nineteen shots off target.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, Mikel Arteta appeared to have words for him on the way off.

  5. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAfterward he told Sky Sports it was hard to see on the cameras and he'd rather watch it back.

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat's a coach protecting his kid, and I'm telling you, I respect it.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPaul Merson said on Sky it could've been a yellow. And a straight red usually means three matches, so he misses Liverpool.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLiverpool! The kid scored twice against Ipswich in the last round. That's a family in crisis.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentArsenal had nineteen shots off target. Nineteen.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorKai Havertz was the most guilty of missing chances, and Arteta was frustrated about it.

  11. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorEighty-four places separate those teams in the pyramid, and you still can't hit the net.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the whole country is arguing about the card. Nineteen shots off target and one red card.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNineteen shots off target, one red card. Arsenal's most accurate player was sixteen.

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