Arsenal vs Tottenham delayed for six minutes after officials’ technical issues

The north London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal was delayed for six minutes on Sunday as a result of a technical situation with one of many match officers’ communication gadgets.

Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres fired a shot large of Guglielmo Vicario’s put up within the seventh minute of the sport earlier than referee Peter Bankes introduced a halt to proceedings. The assistant referee on the far facet of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium appeared to have issues along with his communication and the sport was paused for a number of minutes.

Bankes went over to clarify the state of affairs to Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta, whose facet had began brighter and have been answerable for the sport by way of the opening phases.

The match was finally restarted with a aim kick within the thirteenth minute and eight minutes have been added on in stoppage time on the finish of the primary half.

Sky Sports commentator Gary Neville described the state of affairs as an “absolute shambles” on the published.

“This is ridiculous, the whole game cannot stop just because of an IT issue — this is an absolute nonsense, one of the most important games of the season and the players all now have to reset,” stated Neville.

“This is an absolute nonsense. One of the most important games of the season, fantastic start to it, really quick. And we’re now two or three minutes stopped, players having to sort of re-warm up again, reset. Absolute shambles.”

Eberechi Eze opened the scoring within the thirty second minute along with his fourth aim towards Spurs this season earlier than Randal Kolo Muani scored the equalizer two minutes later.