If Eddie Nketiah was sent off by VAR, an angry Mikel Arteta can't understand why Jamie Vardy escaped the same punishment as Leicester drew with Arsenal.
Nketiah was initial booked shortly after coming on as a sub, but that was upgraded via a VAR review to a straight red for the young striker.
Vardy escaped punishment for an incident Arteta says was similar, and to add insult to injury the Premier League's top scorer then struck late to grab a point at the Emirates.
The Gunners had looked on course for a fourth straight Premier League win after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang opened the scoring and the home side then created a string of chances to kill off the game.
Instead they had to settle for a 1-1 draw as Vardy scored with six minutes remaining, soon after Arsenal had been reduced to 10 men following the dismissal of Nketiah.
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The Arsenal forward had only been on the pitch for a matter of four minutes when referee Chris Kavanagh showed him a red after reviewing a foul on James Justin using his pitchside monitor.
Arteta was unhappy that Vardy was even on the pitch to earn a share of the spoils after he caught Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi with a stray boot late in the first period.
"I have my opinion, I prefer to keep it like this," he said.
"What I am saying is if you review incidents of that type you should review them all. If Eddie's is a red card then for sure the other is a red card.
"If (Nketiah) can be a red card then Leicester has to play with 10 men after 42 minutes - that has to be a red card as well."
Nketiah says sorry for red card
Arteta revealed Nketiah had apologised to his team-mates and that he now expected the dressing room to rally round the England Under-21 international.
"He is disappointed. He said sorry. He doesn't need to do that," added Arteta.
"I know when he goes for every single ball it is because he is so willing to win every challenge. He is on the front foot in every action.
"He didn't see the player coming and obviously he doesn't want to hurt anybody. It is part of the process. They are really young. They need to learn from this situation and hopefully it won't happen again.
"Absolutely, I think we are going to have to support him. There are few things that happened which is why we didn't end up winning the game. It is not just that action."
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