Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es turned a routine celebration into a talking point after Arsenal’s 4-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur, posting a picture that tagged Spurs striker Richarlison and prompted a stream of reactions from team-mates.<\/p>\n
The image showed Gabriel holding a four of hearts card, one for each goal his team scored in N17. Several of the defender\u2019s team-mates left supportive comments beneath the post. The most pointed element was the decision to tag Richarlison, the Spurs striker who is a Brazilian compatriot of Gabriel\u2019s.<\/p>\n
On the pitch the evening was mixed for Gabriel. Arsenal led early through Eberechi Eze but were pegged back when Randal Kolo Muani cancelled that opener after the hosts had ceded possession during Tottenham\u2019s aggressive early press. Viktor Gy\u00f6keres fired Arsenal back in front within two minutes of the restart and went on to claim a two-goal haul and the Player of the Match award; Mikel Arteta described it as his best performance in an Arsenal shirt.<\/p>\n
Gabriel, by contrast, endured a less comfortable night. He formed part of the first Premier League backline to concede to Kolo Muani and was involved in the incident that later saw a second Kolo Muani finish ruled out. According to a lenient Peter Bankes, Kolo Muani had fouled Gabriel to get his shot away.<\/p>\n
The social-media exchange was a continuation of a simmering feud. Gabriel missed the reverse fixture through injury. Despite his stunning goal in that earlier meeting, Richarlison again found himself on the wrong end of a 4-1 scoreline and was a late substitute on the weekend; he also tangled with Gabriel on the pitch before the digital taunt.<\/p>\n
The story stretches back to a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong last July. Richarlison posted an image of himself with two trophies from that trip, and Gabriel later replied with a picture of three Player of the Match trophies he had won against Spurs over recent seasons. On Sunday evening Gabriel was pictured on the team coach with vending-machine items and a Player of the Match trophy displayed nearby. As many onlookers were quick to point out, Gabriel did not receive that award on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Arsenal’s 4-1 derby win Gabriel’s social post tagging Richarlison landed poorly with fans late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1303,969],"tags":[1359,1033,1393],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-arsenal-news","category-premier-league","tag-arsenal-injury","tag-brazilian-football","tag-centre-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}