Joe Cole sends ‘over-celebration’ warning to Myles Lewis-Skelly after Arsenal’s win over Man City

Joe Cole has warned Myles Lewis-Skelly and the remainder of Arsenal’s squad that their ‘over-celebrating’ against Manchester City whitethorn travel backmost to wound them successful the future.

The Gunners thumped champions City 5-1 astatine a rapturous Emirates to tighten their grip connected 2nd spot and spell 9 points wide of Pep Guardiola’s broadside successful the Premier League table.

Thomas Partey, Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz and Ethan Nwaneri each deed the people aft Erling Haaland had cancelled retired Martin Odegaard’s opener successful what was a breathless 2nd play successful northbound London.

The heavyweight contention proved a thrilling albeit bad-tempered affair, with players astatine each other’s throats from infinitesimal 1 pursuing Haaland’s pointed ‘stay humble’ remark directed astatine Mikel Arteta successful the sides’ erstwhile meeting.

Haaland and Gabriel Magalhaes resumed their bitter rivalry, clashing from the archetypal whistle to the last, portion Lewis-Skelly was seen imitating the Norwegian’s solemnisation aft his strike gave Arsenal a two-goal cushion connected the hour-mark.

Lewis-Skelly was different of Haaland’s targets erstwhile 2 teams met backmost successful September, with the City striker heard bellowing, ‘Who the f*** are you?’ successful the teenager’s look during a heated scuffle.

‘The Arsenal players travel successful for a batch of stick. Obviously, they similar to observe erstwhile they triumph a game, they similar the needle,’ ex-Chelsea, West Ham and England winger Cole said connected The Dressing Room Podcast.

‘That precise overmuch comes from Mikel Arteta connected the touchline, that’s their personality, his staff, and that benignant of filters this mode into the players.

‘Myles Lewis-Kelly, who I deliberation is brilliant, I emotion his feistiness, his attitude. He looks similar a apical player.

‘But he’s done the Erling Haaland celebration! That’s cold. He knew what helium was doing… that’s cold.’

Cole enjoys Arsenal’s ‘feistiness’ nether Arteta, though feels their celebrations have, astatine times, been implicit the apical and they could unrecorded to regret them down the line.

‘I bash similar that astir the Arsenal team, that they’re feisty and they’re horrible and they’re nasty,’ helium added.

‘We were similar that astatine Chelsea but the over-celebrating that they do… they’ve done it rather a lot.

‘And I cognize radical are saying, “It’s good, it’s good, it’s good”, but I’m conscionable reasoning for them, it does [come backmost to haunt you].

‘Haaland has gone to furniture successful his oxygen enclosure and each helium tin deliberation astir is scoring against Arsenal.

‘He’s thinking, “I’m gonna smash Lewis-Kelly, I’m gonna bash that, he’s gonna get it”, that’s what you bash if you over-celebrate.’

At his post-match property conference, Arteta revealed that helium had spoken to his squad astir erstwhile it was and wasn’t acceptable to observe successful specified a manner.

Asked however helium felt astir Lewis-Skelly deciding to transcript Haaland’s celebration, Arteta told reporters: ‘Playing astatine location oregon distant is very, precise different.

‘We speech astir those things and we person to recognize that each crushed is different, their attitude, what they observe and what they don’t, is truly precise antithetic up northbound arsenic good to present successful London.

‘It’s portion of the discourse of the game.’

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