He received a second yellow card after referee Michael Oliver decided Trossard had deliberately stalled the game at Etihad Stadium. However, in the locker room, Trossard insisted he attempted to make a pass and hadn't noticed the ref's signal according to The Mirror, even explaining this to Oliver before being shown the red card.

Leandro Trossard followed up a clumsy barge on Bernardo Silva by booting the ball away. It was a lesson not learned after Declan Rice was sent off for a similar offence against Brighton recently. As the saying goes,

Leandro Trossard became the second Arsenal star to be sent off for kicking the ball away over recent weeks and had some defiant words for his team-mates after his dismissal