Arteta: No intention to harm Bradley

Speaking to 

, Arteta added that there would have been "no intention" from Martinelli to harm Bradley.


"He probably doesn't know (that Bradley was injured)," Arteta said.


"I don't know what happened to Conor but hopefully he is OK. But obviously there is no intention from Gabi to do anything bad to him.


Speaking in his post-match press conference, Arteta added: "Knowing Gabi, if anybody knows Gabi, he's an incredible, lovely guy, and probably he didn't realise what happened.


"I will have a word with him now to understand that, but probably he didn't recognise whknoat happened."


Slot: I fear the worst for Bradley

Liverpool boss Arne Slot said after the game that he feared "the worst" for Bradley, who has already missed considerable time out this season through injury.



"I don't know Gabriel Martinelli but he comes across as a nice guy," Slot said.


"The problem for him, and it's a problem in general in football, is that there is so much time-wasting in the final parts of games that sometimes you can be annoyed when you want to score a goal and you feel a player is pretending to be injured.


"I'm 100 per cent sure if he knew what the injury might be, he wouldn't do that. But it doesn't look great if he has the injury, which we fear he might have, of course.


"Football, time-wasting, diving has come to a situation that players think in the 94th minute that probably it's happening again, because I've seen it happening against us so many times this season.



"I can understand that Martinelli might have thought that this was time-wasting as well."


'Title far from a formality for lacklustre Arsenal'

Sky Sports' Nick Wright at the Emirates Stadium:


Arsenal are six points clear. A goalless draw with Liverpool is far from disastrous. But this title is far from a formality if they play as poorly as they did in the second half.


Manchester City's failure to beat Brighton had presented Mikel Arteta's side with the chance to move eight points clear but it never looked particularly likely on a frustrating evening for the hosts at a wet and windy Emirates Stadium

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