Myles Lewis-Skelly has been warned against repeating his mocking of Erling Haaland.
The Arsenal prima copied the Norwegian's medidation solemnisation aft scoring his side's 3rd extremity successful their 5-1 hammering of Manchester City connected Sunday. In the reverse fixture betwixt the 2 teams, Haaland had appeared to inquire the 18-year-old: 'Who the f*** are you?'.
Lewis-Skelly delivered his effect connected Sunday, with a not-so-subtle imitation of Haaland's signature celebration. It was portion of a bid of attempts astatine payback towards Haaland, who had told Mikel Arteta to 'Stay humble' aft September's gully astatine the Etihad Stadium.
But erstwhile Spurs prima Jamie O'Hara has present insisted Lewis-Skelly was incorrect to mock Haaland. While helium conceded that the disapproval aimed astatine the youngster had been over-the-top, O'Hara believes 1 of his team-mates should person warned him against the move.
“Don’t get maine wrong, I similar the banter and the backmost and distant – but not from Myles Lewis-Skelly!” helium told Grosvenor Sport. “He’s a hugely talented young player, but helium hasn’t scored 250 goals oregon won a trophy yet.
"Arsenal didn’t triumph a trophy against Manchester City; they won 3 points. On the different hand, if you can’t bash a celebration, what’s the constituent successful football? It’s the full constituent of the moment; erstwhile you score, you’re successful euphoria.
"I deliberation everyone’s blowing the full solemnisation incidental retired of proportionality – it wasn’t that bad, fto the lad celebrate. That said, if I was successful that dressing room, I’d beryllium saying, ‘calm down – we haven’t won thing yet.’
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Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)“When you’re 23 and you’ve won a mates Premier Leagues, past you tin commencement doing Erling Haaland celebrations, due to the fact that shot tin travel astatine you quickly. Three days later, they got humbled 4-0 connected aggregate by Newcastle successful the Carabao Cup.”
City brag Pep Guardiola delivered a typically sarcastic 'That's good' erstwhile told of Lewis-Skelly's celebration. Arsenal main Mikel Arteta meantime was keen to enactment the absorption connected the left-back's awesome show instead.
"I wasn't expecting it. I was talking contiguous with 1 of our unit members astir that helium needs to endanger much successful the last 3rd erstwhile helium gets successful this position. Riccy did it the different time against Wolves and helium scored," helium said.
"Our afloat backs are present generating these benignant of things. The aforesaid with Jurrien, helium adds threat, helium gave a antithetic benignant of occupation to the opposition, truthful great. He’s been nurtured successful the academy, he’s got it wrong him, helium feels it and he’s precise bully astatine expressing that arsenic well.
"Some players conflict with that, helium does it successful each action, helium does it with his assemblage language, helium does it with his facial expression, however helium lives the crippled and with the shot helium takes it, helium wants to marque things happen. He takes risks, helium takes initiatives and astatine his property it’s not casual to see."
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