Brazilian born Croatian international and Arsenal striker Eduardo has been banned for two matches by Uefa for diving to win a penalty against Celtic in a Champions League qualifier against Celtic last week.

UEFA announced that its control and disciplinary body had suspended the striker "for deceiving the referee".

Eduardo will miss Arsenal's Champions League group matches away at Standard Liege on 16 September and the home match with Olympiakos on 29 September.

Arsenal however have three days to lodge an appeal.

Uefa said in a statement: "The UEFA control and disciplinary body today examined the case of the Arsenal player Eduardo 'for deceiving the referee' during the UEFA Champions League play-off second leg match on 26 August against Celtic, and has suspended the player for two UEFA club competition matches."

Meanwhile, Arsenal released a statement on their website last night condemning the "arbitrary" nature of UEFA's decision.

It read: "The club is disappointed with UEFA's decision to suspend Eduardo. We have been informed that we will receive a 'reasoned decision' from UEFA by Thursday of this week. Once we receive UEFA's rationale, we will make a decision on the next steps. We have been deeply frustrated by the perfunctory and apparently arbitrary process that Uefa has followed in this instance."