'Lacazette handball cost us the win' - Hodgson fuming after Arsenal draw

Lacazette seemed to get a hand on the ball at a 56th-minute corner to divert it into the path of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to put Arsenal 2-1 up.

Hodgson was unequivocal in his condemnation of the incident after the match, and he made no bones about his answer when asked if he thought it was a handball.

"I think so, absolutely," he said. "Especially when, from my position on the bench, our players were complaining about the handball involved.

"I can’t say I’ve seen it, but I have now. Most people would feel sympathy for us because it wasn’t exactly a touch of the hand, but one which helped the ball to the player who scored.

"Tremendous that the players came back from that. It’s not easy having led at the interval and then find ourselves trailing 2-1 ... to find ourselves behind, but come back to force an equaliser, the players deserve a lot of praise.

"Two good pieces of play in open play which led to Arsenal being forced to commit a foul in the penalty area. They were very disciplined otherwise.

"For the two goals, the amount of possession we had in the final third, the amount of penalty areas, two goals is fairly scant reward.

"I’ve got to say I thought we were playing against a team packed with top quality players, who had just won 11 games on the bounce, so to keep all of their players of note as quiet as we did was good.

"The one we didn’t was [Granit] Xhaka with his bullet of a free-kick, but our offensive players were more noticeable today than Arsenal’s, and that’s great credit to my team."