{"id":34169,"date":"2025-12-20T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/william-saliba-was-lucky-not-to-concede-a-penalty-in-arsenal-vs-everton\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:02:37","slug":"william-saliba-was-lucky-not-to-concede-a-penalty-in-arsenal-vs-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/william-saliba-was-lucky-not-to-concede-a-penalty-in-arsenal-vs-everton\/","title":{"rendered":"William Saliba was lucky not to concede a penalty in Arsenal vs. Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal centre-back William Saliba may have been a bit lucky not to concede a penalty against Everton in tonight&#8217;s Premier League match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The France international is normally a solid and dependable player for the Gunners, but there is no doubt that he has had a bit of luck with the following events.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba kicked towards the opponent inside the penalty area, but nothing was given away.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it might seem a little harsh to award Everton a penalty in this case, but at the same time it&#8217;s certainly one of the more controversial decisions you see from time to time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Saliba playing for Arsenal (Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Will Arsenal aim for another narrow victory?<\/h2>\n<p>Arsenal narrowly got past relegation-battling Wolves in their last game, scoring thanks to two own goals, including a near-death goal, which gave them three points.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Arsenal only beat Everton 1-0 thanks to Victor Gokeres&#8217; goal from the penalty spot, so it doesn&#8217;t look very convincing from Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side today.<\/p>\n<p>There is still time in this game for Arsenal to add another goal or two, but Everton will probably feel they have a chance to turn things around before the end of the 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City have looked more convincing in recent games, but Arsenal won&#8217;t care too much as long as they are picking up points.<\/p>\n<p>If AFC can get through this period of poor play without dropping too many points, perhaps they will back themselves up to sort out their performance again as the campaign progresses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal centre-back William Saliba may have been a bit lucky not to concede a penalty against Everton in tonight&#8217;s Premier League match. The France international is normally a solid and dependable player for the Gunners, but there is no doubt that he has had a bit of luck with the following events. Saliba kicked towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-34169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}