Arsenal receive new David Raya VAR verdict as Roberto De Zerbi makes emphatic "200%" claim

Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto De Zerbi emphatically defended the determination to regularisation retired West Ham United's extremity against Arsenal pursuing Spurs' 1-1 draw with Leeds United connected Monday.

Owing to the Gunners' nervy 1-0 triumph astatine the London Stadium connected Sunday, triumph for Tottenham implicit the Whites would person lifted them 4 points wide of the Premier League driblet portion with conscionable 2 rounds remaining.

However, De Zerbi's men were denied a 3rd consecutive Premier League triumph successful North London, wherever Mathys Tel went from leader to villain, opening the scoring with a stunning onslaught earlier giving distant a punishment for Dominic Calvert-Lewin to reconstruct parity.

The location broadside wanted a spot footwear of their ain heavy into stoppage clip for Lukas Nmecha's situation connected James Maddison, but it was deemed that the Leeds attacker played the ball, and Tottenham's appeals were waved away.

De Zerbi was loath to sermon the Maddison-Nmecha incidental successful his post-game property conference, but helium expressed his presumption that the officiating squad were "not calm" aft helium was booked for dissent successful the 95th minute.

Roberto De Zerbi: 'It was 200% a foul connected David Raya'

Asked if his broadside should person been fixed a spot kick, De Zerbi replied: "No, no, no, I don’t privation to travel wrong the polemic, I didn’t spot and I didn’t ticker again. I don’t know. Ask maine a question astir shot if you want," arsenic quoted by football.london.

"The archetypal infinitesimal until the extremity of the crippled the referee went to me, ‘if you spell out, yellowish card,’ and I deliberation they were not calm today. Maybe they suffered the unit of yesterday the West Ham-Arsenal crippled and VAR.

"For definite we endure the unit contiguous for the velocity of the ball, for the bid of the transportation and we didn’t play with patience connected the ball. Frenetic and we were rushed but besides the referee was not calm."

The Italian did importune that Chris Kavanagh and Darren England were close to regularisation retired West Ham's equaliser connected Sunday, though, insisting that Gunners goalkeeper David Raya was "200%" fouled successful the build-up to Callum Wilson's effort.

"I can’t recognize the polemic astir yesterday VAR due to the fact that it was a foul, 200%, not 100% if you privation to speech astir football," De Zerbi added.

Roberto De Zerbi reacts to Antonin Kinsky wonderment prevention successful Tottenham draw

Just earlier Tottenham's punishment appeals were waved away, goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky pulled disconnected a save-of-the-season contender, someway tipping Sean Longstaff's ferocious close-range onslaught onto the crossbar.

Ex-Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe and Liverpool fable Jamie Carragher hailed Kinsky's halt arsenic 1 of the champion saves of the Premier League campaign, arsenic the Czech shot-stopper continues his redemption arc pursuing his fearfulness evening against Atletico Madrid.

De Zerbi besides waxed lyrical astir Kinsky's display, adding: "He’s improving a lot. He’s a bully goalkeeper. I had nary uncertainty successful my archetypal days successful Tottenham due to the fact that I knew him earlier coming here.

"He played successful Madrid, helium made that mistake, and it was pugnacious for him. He has large personality, beardown quality and helium deserves to play a crippled similar today."

Tottenham present person a afloat week to retrieve earlier travelling to Chelsea successful their penultimate crippled of the season, by which constituent they could person dropped down to 18th successful the Premier League table if West Ham United bushed Newcastle United connected Sunday.