Wenger’s second Sterling jibe

ARSENE WENGER has launched another attack on referee Michael Oliver and called Raheem Sterling a diver again after a 3-1 loss to Manchester City. Sterling drew a foul from Nacho Monreal to win a penalty and David Silva was offside before City scored their third goal. And Wenger told beIN Sports: ‘The referee had an absolutely atrocious input. We conceded a penalty that was not a penalty and an offside goal. Sterling used the naivety of the referee in a very positive way.’ Wenger also suggested the clash was closer than the result suggested, citing ‘expected goals’ statistics. He added: ‘If you look at the expected goals, it was 0.7 for them and 0.6 for us, it was tight, they created little and only had one more shot than us.’ Numbers provided by Opta show Arsenal’s expected goals stood at 0.31, while City’s was 1.83.