Gary Neville slams Arsenal star after Erling Haaland incident that made him feel 'uneasy'

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland was targeted by Arsenal players and fans during the Gunners' stunning 5-1 triumph implicit the Premier League champions astatine the Emirates connected Sunday

Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhaes has been branded 'disrespectful' by Gary Neville for celebrating successful Erling Haaland's face.

Gabriel, 27, ran up to Haaland and appeared to mock the despondent Manchester City striker aft Martin Odegaard enactment Arsenal 1-0 up wrong the opening 2 minutes. The Gunners went connected to thrash the champions 5-1, each but ending Haaland and Co.'s hopes of retaining the Premier League title.

City's talisman was nationalist force fig 1 astatine the Emirates connected Sunday aft telling Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta to 'stay humble' successful the aftermath of the sides' raucous 2-2 gully successful September. But Neville didn't consciousness that Gabriel's actions towards Haaland were appropriate.

"I don't similar it. I deliberation it's a spot disrespectful. I cognize Haaland is the pantomime villain present contiguous but determination was thing astir it I didn't like," the erstwhile Manchester United skipper declared connected his Sky Sports podcast.

"I was galore things, and that [winding others up] was my game, but I ne'er did that. I ne'er went and screamed successful a player's face. It made maine consciousness a small spot uneasy."

Haaland got his ain backmost connected Gabriel, who chirpy towards the Norwegian each game, with a extremity to equalise successful the 55th minute, but City's joyousness was short-lived. Thomas Partey restored Arsenal's pb conscionable 105 seconds aboriginal earlier Myles Lewis-Skelly made it 3-1 to Arsenal soon after.

The 18-year-old past celebrated by mimicking Haaland's iconic meditation airs earlier Kai Havertz and substitute Ethan Nwaneri topped disconnected the win, keeping Arsenal's rubric hopes alive. The Gunners are inactive six points down leaders Liverpool, who'll play their crippled successful manus distant to Everton earlier the remainder of the Premier League resumes successful a fortnight.

After the game, Arsenal played rapper Kendrick Lamar's song, 'Humble', implicit the stadium speakers. City manager Pep Guardiola was asked astir Arsenal's behaviour during his post-match property conference, peculiarly Lewis-Skelly's celebration.

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"I didn't see. They did that? That's good," Guardiola replied earlier pausing. "That's good." On the mode retired of his property conference, helium turned to City's property serviceman and asked: "Did you similar my answer?"

Arteta, meanwhile, was asked if the team's clash successful September influenced Arsenal's show but the Gunners brag remained coy. "I don't know, I haven't seen that and it's thing that I privation to sermon astir that," Arteta told reporters. "That's down to the players but they cognize my presumption connected it and we person to absorption connected us."

Arsenal are backmost successful enactment connected Wednesday, facing Newcastle astatine St James' Park successful their Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd leg. City don't play until Saturday's FA Cup clash with third-tier Leyton Orient.

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