Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal squad walked away victorious against Liverpool in what was one of our most important games of the season. Before the game the pressure was on the players and Arteta’s shoulders, and after what was an emphatic win, a lot of pundits had a bit to say about how the players and the manager celebrated the win, especially Martin Odegaard.
Odegaard was seen at the final whistle celebrating with the club’s photographer, enjoying the win with him and the fans and a few pundits, mainly Gary Neville and ex Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, have a few words to say after the match about how they thought the team had over celebrated and the celebrations were too excessive. Odegaard has since commented on their comments about him taking photos and celebrating with the team photographer.
When asked what he thought about their comments he said this “If you’re not allowed to celebrate when you win a game, when are you allowed to celebrate? We’re happy with the win and we’ll stay humble. We keep working hard and we prepare for the next one, but of course you have to be happy when you win”.
“It was a massive game. It could have been eight points [the gap to Liverpool had Arsenal lost] and it would look a lot more difficult then, but we showed up, the fans were 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.”
And personally, I can’t help but agree with him, we were obviously facing one of our biggest games and having come away from playing Liverpool twice this season, without a win, winning 3-1 was a massive result for the Gunners and puts us in a great position to continue to challenge for this year’s title.
Liverpool have been in top form this season and have only lost two games this season and if we were planning to make a run for the title, we needed to beat them and close the gap between us and them at the top. We obviously still have Manchester City to worry about also and with a game in hand they could go in to top spot very easily after they beat Brentford last night but we need to keep the gap between us all as minimal as possible and if we can’t celebrate that, what can we celebrate?
Maybe it looked a bit excessive but that’s the passion you see from our Arsenal lads and the manager, they’re a passionate bunch of people and i don’t think there’s anything wrong with celebrating a win against the team on the top of the table.
What’s your thoughts Gooners?
Daisy Mae
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I loved his interaction with the camera man – here is the captain of Arsenal celebrating and recognizing one of the unsung staff who make the machine work. I thought it was awesome.
We can celebrate when we draw 1-1 in a nothing game with West Brom like Klopp, all the Liverpool players and a high pitched screaming idiot fan boy Jamie Carragher going hip hip hooray over and over.
Just watched the extended highlights on YouTube and MA goes absolutely ballistic with the third goal.
Odegaard is fast becoming the link between players and fans.
Football without passion is like bread without butter – boring and tasteless!!
They are just jealous of the team, remember when they were playing for their teams those days u can see them celebrate.it is a shame if the talk is about celebration.jelouse paudits….my captain celebrate again and again let it pain more
I would have thought that football has more pressing issues than post match celebrations. Instead we’re having silly season discussing trifles.
Just because we haven’t won the title doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate. Winning title comes at the end of the season, and very quickly we move on and prepare for next chapter, we can’t always live in one moment no matter how big that achievement is. So its day to day life that is more important and and we should all live in present day not future. And winning each game and being near the top or being at top gives pleasure for much of the season and so should enjoy each moment. Continue hard work, success comes on way itself.
I found the criticism of our celebrating ridiculous. Is there only one team allowed to celebrate once? The team that wins the PL? You should be particularly free to celebrate in your own house with your own fans.
The moments of joy (and pain) we share together during the season is what makes football football.
Celebrations should not have been the story no matter how much I enjoyed seeing Odegaard and co and fans. The story should have been how Arteta’s tactics nullified a free-scoring Liv who was blowing defenses away. Arteta’s tactics made Liv have a bad game. The players coaches and fans were right to celebrate us coming back into the race having earned it completely, we dominated the league leaders
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You hit the nail on the head mate. Some “fans” are never happy enough