Martin Odegaard hit again 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 on 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 digicam off the membership’s photographer to snap the jubilant reactions to a end result that put Mikel Arteta’s males proper again into title rivalry.
Sky Sports activities pundit and former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was sad with what he noticed.
“Simply get down the tunnel. You’ve gained a recreation, three factors, you’ve been sensible. Again within the title race, get down the tunnel. I’m critical, actually,” he stated – earlier than later including on X, previously often called Twitter: “By all means take pleasure in it, however take pleasure in it by being disciplined!”
Carragher additionally modified his X profile image to one in every of Odegaard utilizing the digicam, however the Arsenal captain was not about to apologise for his post-match celebrations.
Requested whether it is attainable to over have fun after such a giant win, the Norway worldwide replied: “No, I believe everybody who loves soccer, who understands soccer, they know the way a lot it means to win this recreation.
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“And when you’re not allowed to have fun if you win a recreation, when are you allowed to have fun? We’re pleased with the win and we’ll keep humble.
“We maintain working laborious and we put together for the subsequent one however after all you must be pleased if you win.
“It was a large recreation. As you say it might have been eight factors (if we’d misplaced) and it will look much more troublesome then however we confirmed up, the followers had been unbelievable.
“I believe all of us did this collectively. You see the membership, how collectively we’re, all of the gamers, employees, supporters, every part. So yeah, sensible 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 usually.
“We didn’t lose just lately an terrible lot of soccer video games, we all know that,” he stated.
“Meaning coping with defeats is a problem – for humankind truly. No one right here expects, in our dressing room at the least, that we simply will fly over Burnley or no matter.
“They struggle for his or her targets, it’s a extremely gifted group, unfortunate in moments and stuff like this. Nevertheless it’s a house recreation and we are able to flip issues round, that means step one, after which we are going to see.
“(After Sunday) No one celebrates the champion and no person is relegated so far as I do know, so we now have all the possibility to create our personal future. Let’s see what occurs.”
