Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri refuses to comment about two penalty shouts during his side’s goalless Premier League draw against Arsenal on Saturday.
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A second, this time blatant, penalty appeal was waved away when Bellerin dragged Ahmed Musa to the ground in the final stages.
Frustration is rising among Arsenal fans after the club posted large profits, as well as sitting on considerable amounts of cash reserves – yet Wenger has only bought Petr Cech and Granit Xhaka in the last two summer windows to supplement the first team.
Montanier’s best hope of having Burke for this season is that one of the bigger clubs – Arsenal, Spurs or Liverpool – go through with bid and then loan him straight back to Forest. “I spend £300m if I find the player and if I have the £300m”, Wenger told Arsenal’s official website. “It was a game where we had the chances and I think it was a game of intensity and quality”, he said.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had Arsenal’s first real chance on 27 minutes, beating two markers but his curler went narrowly wide. That will further frustrate fans who are unhappy that manager Arsene Wenger has failed to substantially strengthen his squad this offseason. If I buy you tomorrow for £45m I have spent £45m and I would have done well because I will have listened to you but spending the money in itself is not a quality.
It wasn’t so much a poor display from the frontmen, rather an excellent performance from both defences.
“Maybe [Musa should have had a penalty], again it was on the other side [of the pitch] but Leicester is very good at provoking in the box. You should be happy because he’s English, 20 years old – but I’m sorry he didn’t cost £55m, so he can’t be good”. We did know that Arsenal’s first two games were going to be hard and with circumstances leaving us weakened in key positions the results are not that great a surprise.
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New signing Nampalys Mendy had to leave the pitch early on during the second half, and Ranieri admitted that he is in the dark over how bad the injury – thought to be involving his ankle – actually is.
