Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool: 4 talking points from Carabao Cup exit

Arsenal's Brazilian defender Gabriel (L) and Arsenal's Scottish defender Kieran Tierney (R) react at the end of the game during the English League Cup semi-final second leg football match between Arsenal and Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium, in London on January 20, 2022. - Liverpool won the game 2-0. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 45 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Ian KINGTON / IKIMAGES / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 45 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 45 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by IAN KINGTON/IKIMAGES/AFP via Getty Images) /

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Referee Martin Atkinson (2nd R) shows a red card to Arsenal’s Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey during the English League Cup semi-final second leg football match between Arsenal and Liverpool. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) /

4. Thomas Partey Suspended for Burnley

Look up Arsenal in the dictionary. Read what it says.

It might look something like: “a key player goes away to an international tournament and somehow doesn’t miss a single Premier League game, only to return to the pitch eight hours after playing on another continent, gets himself sent off, and then misses the following game he had returned in time for.”

Quite the long-winded definition but, that is Arsenal Football Club. You can’t write this stuff. That’s now fourteen since Arteta took charge.

So, with that red card it makes it as you were. Albert Sambi Lokonga will be left to man the central fort once more. But, on a positive note, at least it’s against a dreadful Burnley side at home. That does soften the blow somewhat.

And, Odegaard was terrific even with Arsenal losing 2-0. So, hopefully, it won’t be too keenly felt.

As for the yellow cards, the second one was undoubtedly a booking, but Partey can feel harshly done by for the first. It was his first foul (he has two all game) and the referee didn’t need to be so rash.

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It is what it is: ‘Arsenal’.

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