Manchester Metropolis supervisor Gareth Taylor accused Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall of “bullying” the fourth official throughout his aspect’s 2-1 Ladies’s Tremendous League defeat to the Gunners on Sunday.
Arsenal striker Stina Blackstenius punished goalkeeper Khiara Keating’s error to attain a late winner for the hosts at Boreham Wooden, as Metropolis suffered their first league defeat of the season.
The outcome means Eidevall’s Arsenal go stage with Taylor’s Metropolis on 10 factors from 5 video games, three behind leaders Chelsea.
However afterwards, Taylor turned his focus again to the touchline and accused his Arsenal counterpart of performing aggressively in direction of official Melissa Burgin.
Taylor stated he needed to step in and was “defending” Burgin, in feedback made to the BBC after Eidevall had performed his post-match media duties. The Arsenal supervisor has but to have the possibility to answer Taylor’s accusation.
“That’s all the time the identical with him as a result of he’s always on the fourth official and I feel it’s bullying,” stated Taylor.
“I’m defending the fourth official however that’s not my job.”
Eidevall was not spoken to by the referee about his conduct in the course of the 2-1 win and Arsenal usually are not commenting on the matter.
Arsenal usually are not commenting on the accusation
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Elsewhere within the WSL, Manchester United, who prolonged their unbeaten begin to the marketing campaign in dramatic trend as substitute Rachel Williams’ leveller deep into stoppage time noticed them draw 2-2 at Brighton.
After Elisabeth Terland’s strike on the half-hour for the hosts and Ella Toone’s 78th-minute equaliser, a Guro Bergsvand header with a minute of regular time to go appeared set to present Brighton victory, earlier than Williams had the ultimate keep eight minutes into time added on.
There are two different groups with the identical variety of factors as Metropolis and Arsenal, one among which is Tottenham, who have been denied a fourth successive victory by Aurora Galli’s late penalty as they have been held 1-1 at house by Everton.
Galli transformed from the spot with 5 minutes of regular time to go to cancel out Grace Clinton’s first-half objective for Spurs.
The opposite aspect on 10 factors is Liverpool following a 2-1 house win over Leicester.
Marie Hobinger’s 84th-minute objective secured the Reds victory after Melissa Lawley had given them the lead early within the second half and Missy Goodwin equalised simply earlier than the hour.
Promoted Bristol Metropolis claimed their first factors of the season as they gained 3-2 at West Ham, with Brooke Aspin netting the decisive objective.
An eventful first half noticed the hosts lead by way of Viviane Asseyi’s penalty, the guests reply with efforts from Amalie Thestrup and Ella Powell and West Ham’s Riko Ueki notch a stoppage-time equaliser, earlier than Aspin put the Robins again in entrance 10 minutes after the break.
Contains reporting from PA
