Arsenal star Gabriel mocks Man Utd transfer target during Champions League heroics

Arsenal went up against 1 of their apical transportation targets successful the signifier of Viktor Gyokeres successful the Champions League connected Tuesday nighttime - and it was the Gunners who came retired connected top

Gabriel Magalhaes rubbed brackish successful Viktor Gyokeres' wounds by mimicking the Sporting Lisbon star's patented solemnisation aft scoring successful Arsenal's awesome 5-1 win.

The Gunners made a storming commencement to their important Champions League necktie successful Portugal, with archetypal fractional goals from Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Gabriel. Goncalo Inacio scored soon aft the interruption to springiness Sporting hope, lone for Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard to heap much misery connected the Portuguese champions precocious on.

It was Gabriel's goal, though, which efficaciously enactment the crippled beyond Sporting. And aft powering location from a Declan Rice corner, the Brazilian defender celebrated successful style.

His antics, which progressive copying Gyokeres by holding some hands implicit his eyes, caused a disturbance online fixed the Sporting star's links to some Arsenal and Manchester United.

The Sweden international, 26, was heavy linked with the Gunners backmost successful the summertime transportation window, though the nine yet decided against signing a striker.

Unfortunately for Arsenal, involvement successful Gyokeres has lone grown since then. And the information that United person since poached Gyokeres' aged boss, Ruben Amorim, from Sporting Lisbon could person them the borderline successful a transportation race.

Scouts from United and Manchester City were reportedly contiguous astatine Tuesday night's match, wherever Gyokeres was starved of work for the bulk of the evening. He struck the crossbar precocious connected pursuing a uncommon interruption guardant from the hosts.

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Arsenal person struggled connected the roadworthy successful Europe but were successful rampant signifier successful Portugal. Arteta had stressed that his squad needed to amended their distant signifier if they were to beforehand to the second stages of the new-look Champions League.

The Spaniard said: “It’s surely thing we person to improve. Not each the games person been the same. It’s existent that wrong those games determination were games that were erstwhile we had already qualified.

“Something that is precise existent is that we person to amended those results and we person to find ways to recognize what has been missing. Sometimes it’s been show sometimes it’s been different aspects. That’s the adjacent measurement we person to marque arsenic a team.”

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