ARSENAL will be punished by the Football Association after six players received yellow cards against Chelsea.
Martin Zubimendi, Cristhian Mosquera, Riccardo Calafiori, Piero Hincapie, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Viktor Gyokeres were all cautioned in the feisty 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
And this means the Premier League leaders will be hit with a £25,000 fine for their conduct during the game.
They are also likely to be warned about their future conduct over the rest of the campaign.
The fine will be doubled this season if they do it again.
The last time Arsenal had six players booked and were hit with the fine was in February 2024 in a 3-1 home win over Liverpool.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has repeatedly urged his players to try and avoid needless bookings and red cards to avoid missing matches.
Chelsea, who believed Hincapie should have been dismissed for an elbow on Trevoh Chalobah, had Moises Caicedo red-carded for a lunge on Mikel Merino.
Their only other card was an 11th minute caution for Marc Cucurella.
Chalobah fired Chelsea into the lead just moments after half-time with a headed effort from a corner.
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However, Merino levelled things up 11 minutes later to steal a point for the Gunners.
After the game, Arteta said: “I think it was a proper London derby. It was really tense, and you could sense from the beginning that every duel, every action, has something on it.
“Two teams very willing to win, and not much football. A lot of stops, free-kicks, yellow cards, so not a lot of fluidity.
“But obviously after the sending-off of Caicedo, we wanted to settle the game. We didn’t manage to do that – we had four more yellow cards, and those players were obviously targeted in order to even the game in terms of numbers.
“And at half-time we said, let’s push it now, get what we have to do, and we were very clear on our intention and how we were going to dominate the game in the first action.
“Long ball, free-kick, corner, and we concede from a set-piece. So then, the momentum shifted, and ultimately the team have to react to that.
“We managed to get some good spells without having too much momentum and we score a great goal, and after that, we had two or three big chances but lacked certain detail, especially in the manner we attacked, and especially in certain positions.”
