OPINION
Alexandre Lacazette compounded what was a miserable night for Arsenal in their 1-0 defeat to BATE Borisov by picking up a straight red card late on for a deliberate elbow on Aleksandar Filipovic. It was completely reckless from the French international and puts his team in an even worse position for the second leg. The reaction from the Gunners supporters is completely understandable, because he’s damaged his side’s chances even further. It was a woeful display from Arsenal and they didn’t deserve to get anything from the game, and Lacazette was chief amongst those Gunners players who disappointed. He failed to provide the cutting edge that you would expect from someone of his quality and never once looked like putting the ball in the back of the net. He was getting fouled by Filipovic in the build up to getting sent off, but you can never elbow someone and expect to get away with it. As the Arsenal fans say, it was completely idiotic.
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below.
Lacazette you fool
— ???g???? (@tochizkc) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/MikeThePundit/status/1096131431145844738
Lacazette stupid boy ! Manager has some beef with ozil and it’s costing arsenal if he don’t want him why not let him go in January ! Future not good with kroenke not putting a shilling into the club only interested in his new 4 billion stadium in the states ! He’s ruined arsenal
— denis smyth (@smythyman) February 14, 2019
Lacazette gave the ref no other option there. An amazingly stupid thing to do
— Arsene Bergkamp (@Arsene_Bergkamp) February 14, 2019
Stupid from lacazette
— Darren Wells (@Wellsy2304) February 14, 2019
You can’t excuse that reaction in any game but knowing we’ve got to get a win in the second leg makes it an even more stupid decision from Lacazette
— Grace (@GraceMelia) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/arsenalfc_mark/status/1096131731701280768
After missing 2 siters then he gets a stupid red, Lacazette is an idiot ???
— Kay Cee ?? (@Bambo_Kanthu) February 14, 2019