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Arsenal overcame Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League.
And also mocked the Swedish goal king Viktor Gyökeres.
Now the truth behind the hedging of Gyökere’s goal gesture is revealed.
Portuguese Sporting Lisbon and above all Viktor Gyökeres has charmed many football lovers this autumn in the Champions League. Especially after the great victory against Manchester City with 4-1 a few weeks ago.
Mocking Gyökeres
But on Tuesday evening, Sporting were thoroughly stripped by visiting Arsenal, who won 5-1, it was the Portuguese team’s first loss of the season. Already during the first half, the “Gunners” led with a clear 3-0 and that was the end of the night for the Lisbon gang.
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Just the third goal that made the center back Gabriel has become a real talking point after the Brazilian’s goal celebration afterwards. He mocked Gyökeres and copied the Swede’s world-famous goal gesture with his hands shaped like a mask over his face, see the picture below.
Arsenal’s revenge
Attentive Arsenal supporters have now come to the conclusion that it is about revenge from 2023. Many write on X that Gabriel mimicked the goal gesture because Sporting Lisbon did the same thing against Arsenal in the Europa League match over a year ago.
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Then the Arsenal player Granit Xhaka celebrated with a mock goal gesture, the match later went to penalties and Sporting knocked out the English. Then celebrated Pedro Gonçalves with the same mocking gesture to heckle the Arsenal fans in place, see the image below.
Now Arsenal have thus had their revenge when Gabriel mocked Gyökere’s goal gesture in front of the Sporting fans. The match then ended 5-1 and Arsenal thus passes Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League table.
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