While Liverpool could call on arguably the best offensive full-back in world football in Trent Alexander-Arnold, Arsenal fielded a 21-year-old starting only the 19th top-flight game of his career. "It hurts knowing this has happened at YCCC so close to home. It's my club that I care passionately about. I've spent a lot of time reflecting. There is no debate about racism, no one side or other. It is simply intolerable. "No, nothing. It's different when you're in the ring," said the Mexican star at the final press conference. Van Gerwen started with a pair of routine victories over Boris Krcmar and Peter Hudson before his first three-figure average accounted for Andy Boulton, and he followed that up by edging out Brendan Dolan in a last-leg shoot-out.