Monday 3 October 2016 08:54, UK
Laurent Koscielny's late winner handed Arsenal a 1-0 win at Burnley on Nissan Super Sunday, but should it have counted?
The Frenchman got on the end of Theo Walcott's flick on at Turf Moor in the third minute of stoppage time, touching the ball with his right boot before it hit his arm and went over the line.
Burnley felt aggrieved, with the initial effort seemingly heading over the bar, but what was said after the game?
Watch the video of the incident above, and read the reaction in the aftermath below...
Asked if he'd handled in the build-up to the goal, he told Sky Sports: "I don't know. I tried to smash the ball with my right foot and after I couldn't see where the ball was going.
"I don't know if I touched the ball with my hand but the ref gave us the goal and we need to respect the decision.
"It was a hard game. We pushed on the pitch to win this game, and it arrived at the end."
"The way they won it at the end, is it fair, is it unfair? But a win is a win. If his hand wasn't there, it would have gone out, but as he said you have to respect the decision, the ref didn't disallow the goal.
"But you can clearly see, he is not offside, he touches the ball with the inside of his right foot, into his hand, and over the line.
"I think it's one of those, and I'm not going to sit on the fence, if he gives handball you would understand.
"When you look at it after, you'd say if he gave a handball you'd understand it. I can see how maybe he didn't see with the speed of the ball that it was a goal, but I don't think Koscielny meant to do that, that's the main thing.
"I don't know what the Burnley player [Scott Arfield] is doing on the far post, coming out flying to play out of the box, try to put pressure out of the box."
"I think it has hit both of us at some point, but it doesn't really matter, we've managed to squeeze it in at the end and that's one of the biggest wins we'll have this season.
"The longer that games goes on, and they kept it 0-0, the tougher it got. We always try, no matter what, to try the same way. At the end we went a little bit more direct, and it paid off with the cross at the end.
"Credit to them, they played excellently and defended well."
"I haven't seen the replay and honestly from the bench I didn't even see the ball going in.
"Maybe we are a bit lucky there, if you're telling me that it's because you've seen it again, so maybe we're a bit lucky there, yes."
"It isn't ideal, that's for sure. You've got to question the time, question whether the corner should come in, you've got to question whether it's handball because it certainly looks it.
"But you've equally got to question us not dealing with it as well as we should have done, because we've dealt with everything that was thrown at us all afternoon.
"A mixture of question marks with that, but it's a poor way to end the game whichever way you look at it."
