Gabriel Jesus: Arsenal star got away with kicking out at Man Utd's Lisandro Martinez

Gabriel Jesus has been one of the Premier League’s form players in 2022/23 thus far.

The Brazilian striker joined Arsenal from Manchester City in a £45 million deal over the summer and has hit the ground running in north London.

Going into last Sunday’s match away at Manchester United, Jesus boasted a record of three goals and three assists from five league appearances.

Unfortunately for Arsenal, he was unable to add to that tally at Old Trafford and was also unable to prevent his new team from losing 3-1 to their fierce rivals.

But while it wasn’t exactly a day to cherish for Jesus, the all-action forward still dropped a top-quality performance overall and was unlucky to be on the losing side.

The 25-year-old put United’s defenders to the sword on numerous occasions, although it appears one of them managed to get under his skin.

Why do we say that? Well, footage has emerged on social media in which you can clearly see Jesus kicking out at Lisandro Martinez after losing the ball.

The United centre-back lightly bumped into his opponent inside the penalty area and that prompted the Arsenal man to lash out.

To be fair to Martinez, he didn’t react to the swipe or feign injury, which is probably the main reason why VAR didn’t intervene and have the referee check the monitor for a possible red card offence.

Take a look at footage of the incident…

Look what Gabriel Jesus did to Lisandro Martinez for pocketing him, but Arsenal fans won't see it because they're busy crying that Man Utd thrashed them..pic.twitter.com/ZNaWnNASmt

Martinez knew exactly what he was doing and certainly wasn’t completely innocent in the matter, but Jesus was lucky to escape without punishment, as he quite clearly kicked out – which is, of course, an act