Gary Neville slams Arsenal star after incredible Man City win

Gary Neville has criticised Arsenal defender Gabriel for ‘disrespecting’ Erling Haaland during the Gunners’ unthinkable 5-1 triumph implicit Manchester City.

Arsenal sent a beardown connection to Premier League rubric rivals Liverpool and inflicted a damaging decision connected Pep Guardiola astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Sunday.

It took Arsenal conscionable 2 minutes to instrumentality the lead, Manuel Akanj’s mistake gifting Martin Odegaard the accidental to slot past Ederson.

In an electrical start, the Gunners were celebrating a 2nd soon aft but the extremity was ruled retired for offside.

Manchester City equalised against the tally of play soon aft fractional clip done Erling Haaland, who clashed with respective Arsenal players and manager Mikel Arteta successful the corresponding fixture.

But Arsenal regained the pb conscionable a infinitesimal aboriginal done Thomas Partey’s deflected strike,  earlier the awesome Myles Lewis-Skelly added a third, emulating 1 of Haaland’s iconic celebrations successful the process.

Kai Havertz scored a much-needed extremity to heap the misery connected Man City, who conceded again successful injury-time – Ethan Nwaneri with the extremity – successful a dismal showing for the reigning Premier League champions.

Gabriel celebrated successful Haaland’s look aft Arsenal’s aboriginal opener, intelligibly responding to the Norwegian striker’s antics backmost erstwhile these 2 teams past met successful September.

Haaland chucked the shot astatine Gabriel’s caput aft John Stones scored an injury-time equalise for Man City, earlier clashing with members of the Arsenal squad aft full-time and infamously telling Arteta to ‘stay humble’.

The Arsenal squad could beryllium forgiven for wanting to get 1 backmost implicit Haaland but Neville believes it was ‘disrespectful’ from Gabriel and says the incidental made him consciousness ‘uneasy’.

‘I privation to notation Gabriel and what helium did to Haaland,’ the erstwhile Manchester United and England defender said connected his Sky Sports podcast.

‘It happened to maine really astatine Highbury many, galore years agone and we really won 4-2 that day. A subordinate screamed successful my face.

‘I really don’t similar it, I deliberation it’s a spot disrespectful. I get that Haaland was the pantomime villain present contiguous but determination was thing astir it that I didn’t like.

‘I was galore things connected a shot transportation to beryllium just and ‘s*********y’ was my crippled afloat stop. But I ne'er did that. I ne'er went and screamed successful a players face.

‘I conscionable didn’t similar that, it made maine consciousness a small spot uneasy, it was a small spot disrespectful.’

Asked astir Lewis-Skelly copying Haaland’s celebration, Guardiola said successful his post-match property conference: ‘That’s good. Yeah, that’s good.’

Assessing a humbling day for his side, the Manchester City brag added: ‘I lone regret the past 25 minutes. We forgot to bash what we should do, what we had done for 65 to 70 minutes.

‘Of course, it’s a hard crippled successful this stadium, against that team, conceding successful the archetypal minutes – it has happened galore times this season.

‘But, aft 10 to 15 minutes, I deliberation we took the crippled and played truly good. We are successful it aft 1-1 and we had bully momentum.

‘We walk to marque the modulation with Omar [Marmoush] and past comes a deflection and the 3rd goal.

‘But, aft that, we past continued to bash what you person to bash defensively and we were a small spot much patient. When you’re playing that way, they tin tally and, of course, astatine 3-1 they are comfy truthful it is much difficult.

‘I regret the past 15 to 20 minutes, but the remainder was a truly bully crippled for our side. It’s hard to recognize erstwhile you spot the result, but this is my feeling.’

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