in last night's Premier League match arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Brighton with the game turning on a controversial red card for Dean rice the incident occurred in the 48th minute when rice attempted to dribble down the Left Flank but was dispossessed and fouled Joel veltman as veltman tried to take a quick free kick ball deflected off Rice's foot and went out of play referee Chris Kavanaugh immediately issued a second yellow card to Rice reducing Arsenal to 10 men this decision left Arsenal fans outraged with many feeling that Rice was unfairly punished while veltman was at fault despite the backlash Premier League officials defended the referee's decision explaining that Rice was booked for deliberately obstructing the quick restart which is a yellow car defense since it was a second yellow VAR was unable to review the incident Arsenal who had taken the lead through Kai HTS struggled after the red card and were fortunate to escape with the point as Brighton missed several late chances [Music]