Martin Odegaard hit back at critics who claimed Arsenal over celebrated their victory over 10-man Liverpool – insisting they may stay “humble” all through their Premier League title problem.
The Gunners moved to inside two factors of Jurgen Klopp’s leaders following a 3-1 win over 10-man Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium.
Bukayo Saka opened the scoring for Arsenal earlier than Gabriel Magalhaes’ unlucky personal purpose levelled for the guests on the stroke of half-time.
A combination-up between Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk allowed Gabriel Martinelli to revive Arsenal’s lead within the second half, with substitute Leandro Trossard ensuring of the factors in stoppage time after Ibrahima Konate had been despatched off.
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— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) February 4, 2024
Odegaard then led the celebrations, taking the digital camera off the membership’s photographer to snap the jubilant reactions to a consequence that put Mikel Arteta’s males proper back into title competition.
Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was sad with what he noticed.
“Just get down the tunnel. You’ve won a game, three points, you’ve been brilliant. Back in the title race, get down the tunnel. I’m serious, honestly,” he mentioned – earlier than later including on X, previously often called Twitter: “By all means enjoy it, but enjoy it by being disciplined!”
Carragher additionally modified his X profile image to one in every of Odegaard utilizing the digital camera, however the Arsenal captain was not about to apologise for his post-match celebrations.
Asked whether it is doable to over rejoice after such an enormous win, the Norway worldwide replied: “No, I believe everybody who loves soccer, who understands soccer, they understand how a lot it means to win this recreation.
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— Arsenal (@Arsenal) February 4, 2024
“And when you’re not allowed to rejoice if you win a recreation, when are you allowed to rejoice? We’re glad with the win and we’ll keep humble.
“We hold working exhausting and we put together for the following one however after all you must be glad if you win.
“It was an enormous recreation. As you say it may have been eight factors (if we’d misplaced) and it might look much more troublesome then however we confirmed up, the followers have been unbelievable.
“I think we all did this together. You see the club, how together we are, all the players, staff, supporters, everything. So yeah, brilliant to see.”
For Liverpool, it was only a second league defeat of the marketing campaign and Klopp admits overcoming a loss can show extra of a problem when it doesn’t occur typically.
“We didn’t lose recently an awful lot of football games, we know that,” he mentioned.
“That means dealing with defeats is a problem – for humankind truly. Nobody right here expects, in our dressing room at least, that we simply will fly over Burnley or no matter.
“They struggle for his or her targets, it’s a very proficient group, unfortunate in moments and stuff like this. But it’s a house recreation and we will flip issues round, that means step one, after which we are going to see.
“(After Sunday) Nobody celebrates the champion and nobody is relegated as far as I know, so we have all the chance to create our own destiny. Let’s see what happens.”
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