Gary Neville slams Arsenal star after incredible Man City win
Gary Neville has criticise Arsenal defender Gabriel for ‘disrespecting’ Erling Haaland during the Gunners’ incredible 5-1 victory over Manchester City.
Arsenal sent a strong message to Premier League สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที title rivals Liverpool and inflicted a damaging defeat on Pep Guardiola at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
It took Arsenal just two minutes to take the lead, Manuel Akanj’s error gifting Martin Odegaard the chance to slot past City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega.
In an electric start, the Gunners were celebrating a second soon after but the goal was rule out for offside.
Manchester City equalised against the run of play shortly after half time through Erling Haaland, who clashe with several Arsenal players and manager Mikel Arteta in the corresponding fixture.
But Arsenal regained the lead just a minute later through Thomas Partey’s deflected strike, before the impressive Myles Lewis-Skelly added a third, emulating one of Haaland’s iconic celebrations in the process.
Kai Havertz score a much-neede goal to pile the misery on Man City, who concede again in injury-time – Ethan Nwaneri with the goal – to cap off a dismal showing for the reigning Premier League champions.
Gabriel celebrated in Haaland’s face after Arsenal’s early opener, clearly responding to the Norwegian striker’s antics back when these two teams last met in September.
Haaland chucke the ball at Gabriel’s head after John Stones score an injury-time equaliser for Man City, before clashing with members of the Arsenal squad after full-time and infamously telling Arteta to ‘stay humble’.
The Arsenal squad could be forgiven for wanting to get one back at Haaland but Neville believes it was ‘disrespectful’ from Gabriel and says the incident made him feel ‘uneasy’.
I want to mention Gabriel and what he did to Haaland,’ the former Manchester United and England defender said on his.
‘It happened to me actually at Highbury many, many years ago and we actually won 4-2 that day. A player screamed in my face.
‘I actually don’t like it, I think it’s a bit disrespectful. I get that Haaland was the pantomime villain here today but there was something about it that I didn’t like.