Arsenal's seventh loss from 11 games - and it came after Xhaka was sent off for grabbing Ashley Westwood with the scores still level.
Afterwards, Arteta blasted the midfielder's dismissal as "unacceptable" - saying it was even worse than when Pepe was given his marching orders for headbutting Ezgjan Alioski during the Gunners' 0-0 defeat at Leeds. "We know that these things are unacceptable and the moment that we are in now it’s even more so," Arteta told BBC Radio 5 Live . "Complete dominance from the start to the moment that Granit Xhaka was sent off."Arteta seemed to suggest that Xhaka's early exit was worse than Pepe's because Arsenal are now even in an even worse run of form than they were three weeks ago.
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