"The problem for him - and it's a problem in general in football - is that there is so much time-wasting and players pretending they are injured in the final part of games that you can sometimes be annoyed, if you want to score a goal, [when] you think a player is time-wasting."
"Football, time-wasting, diving has come to the situation where players think, in the 94th minute, that that has happened again - because I have seen it happen against us so many times this season that I can understand Martinelli might have thought this was time-wasting as well."
"Knowing Gabi, it's not intentional," Arteta told Sky Sports. "I don't know what happened to Conor - hopefully it's nothing bad - but there's no intention from Gabi to do anyth"
Gabriel Martinelli tried to push injured Conor Bradley off the pitch during second-half added time of a 0-0 draw at the Emirates, with Bradley sustaining a knee problem and leaving on a stretcher. Victory would have moved the leaders eight points clear. Arne Slot defended Martinelli, citing widespread time-wasting and players feigning injury late in games. Mikel Arteta said Martinelli probably did not realise the extent of Bradley's damage and insisted there was no intent to harm. Several commentators, including Dominik Szoboszlai, Roy Keane and Daniel Sturridge, criticised the incident.
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