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🚨 Mesut Özil Slams Referee After Arsenal's Controversial Champions League Final Defeat 🗣️: "I have watched football for many years, and I understand that referees can make mistakes. Nobody expects perfection. But tonight, it genuinely felt like Arsenal were fighting against more than just PSG. The incident involving Madueke was a clear penalty for me. In any other game, anywhere else on the pitch, that contact is given as a foul immediately. I struggle to understand how the referee saw it and decided there was nothing there. Even more surprising was the lack of intervention. Moments like that can completely change a final. What frustrated me most was the consistency. Every important decision seemed to go against Arsenal. Small fouls were given one way but not the other. Challenges that deserved bookings were ignored. Every 50-50 call appeared to favour PSG. As a player, that is incredibly difficult because you begin to feel that no matter what you do, the decisions are not going your way. A Champions League final should be decided by the players, the coaches and the football itself, not by controversial refereeing decisions. Arsenal may not have played their best game, but they still deserved a fair opportunity to compete. When such a clear penalty is not awarded, people are always going to ask questions. I feel sorry for the players because they worked all season to reach this stage. You can accept losing when the better team wins fairly, but it is much harder to accept when major decisions leave a cloud over the result. For me, Arsenal deserved that penalty on Madueke, and they deserved much better from the officials tonight."

🚨 Declan Rice: “I’ve got the feeling of wanting to come back and lift the trophy!”. “I’m sure we WILL be back”.

🔴⚪️ Declan Rice: “We gave absolutely everything… we win together and we lose together”.

AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE SPORT. I URGE UEFA TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND ISSUE THIS CORRUPT OFFICIAL A LIFETIME BAN!!!!!!

🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry: “I don't usually talk about referees, but Arsenal were incredibly unlucky tonight. The penalty incident was clear to me, and the halftime whistle just before a dangerous set-piece was difficult to understand. After that, it felt like every important decision went PSG's way. Arsenal never got the consistency they deserved from the officials. PSG will celebrate the trophy, but the refereeing will be one of the biggest talking points of this final.”

"We had prepared and trained for this moment" Mikel Arteta explains why Gabriel took the fifth penalty for Arsenal in their Champions League defeat to PSG 💬

You were magnificent @_DeclanRice 👏👏👏👏

🗣️ Declan Rice: “Mikel Arteta just spoke about how much he loves us as a group. We've given absolutely everything. I think we've come really far and this is only the start.” ❤️👀

📸| Arteta and Eze at full time 💔

Marquinhos went immediately to console Gabriel after penalty miss. ❤️‍🩹🇧🇷

🚨🗣️ Declan Rice: "Gabriel and Eze missing penalties? We love them and we are with them. It happens in football." "They won't be the last players to miss penalties in finals, and without those two we wouldn't have won the Premier League."

🚨 Mikel Arteta: “We could have easily had a penalty on Madueke…”.

🚨🎙️Wayne Rooney: “Arsenal have been robbed tonight” 🤯 Rooney 🗣️ “I’ll be completely honest, Arsenal were absolutely robbed tonight, there is no other way to put it. You look at that foul on Noni Madueke in the box; it’s a stonewall, 100% clear penalty. How the referee or VAR hasn't given that is beyond me, and it completely changes the dynamic of a Champions League final. But for me, the moment that truly gave it away the moment you knew exactly what the referee was doing was that halftime whistle. To blow the whistle right as Arsenal are literally standing there about to take a corner? I’ve played this game a long time, and you rarely see that unless there’s a blatant bias. It was shocking, and it set the tone for everything that followed. In the second half, it became a totally different game, and not because of the football. The referee made absolutely sure that every single 50/50 call, every little nudge, and every major decision went straight to PSG. It completely killed Arsenal’s momentum. But to be fair, I’m not even surprised. We saw the exact same story when they played Bayern Munich earlier in the tournament. The officiating was heavily skewed then, and it’s happened again on the biggest stage. PSG might be lifting the trophy, but they cannot honestly look at themselves in the mirror and be proud of the way they’ve won this final. To win the biggest prize in club football like that? It leaves a horrible taste. Arsenal deserved so much more tonight.”

I love you @biel_m04 ❤️

Nobody less deserving of that than @biel_m04 . He’s been an absolute hero all season. I love you, Gabriel. ❤️

10000% PENALTY!!!! WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED!!!!

The English league has worthy champions. My respect to you @Arsenal. Whatever the result, I am impressed.

That was a blatant penalty on Madueke. This referee is a disgrace.

BOOOOOOOOOOM! Brilliant goal by @kaihavertz29 .. what a start!

Ugandans here is another kid black market exploited. Where is the minister?