Former Chelsea star, Joe Cole has warned Myles Lewis-Skelly that Manchester City striker, Erling Haaland is thinking of ‘smashing’ him for ‘over-celebrating’.
Arsenal thrashed Man City 5-1 in the Premier League over the weekend.
The likes of Martin Odegaard, Thomas Partey, Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz and Ethan Nwaneri all scored for the Gunners.
Haaland scored the only goal for Man City against Arsenal.
The Norway international and Arsenal’s Gabriel Magalhaes resumed their bitter rivalry during the encounter.
However, Lewis-Skelly was seen imitating the Haaland’s celebration after his goal gave Arsenal a two-goal cushion on the hour-mark.
“The Arsenal players come in for a lot of stick. Obviously, they like to celebrate when they win a game, they like the needle,” Cole said on The Dressing Room Podcast.
“That very much comes from Mikel Arteta on the touchline, that is their personality, his staff, and that sort of filters this way into the players.
“Myles Lewis-Kelly, who I think is brilliant, I love his feistiness, his attitude. He looks like a top player.
“But he’s done the Erling Haaland celebration! That’s cold. He knew what he was doing… that’s cold.”
He added, “I do like that about the Arsenal team, that they’re feisty and they’re horrible and they’re nasty,’ he added.
“We were like that at Chelsea but the over-celebrating that they do… they’ve done it quite a lot.
“Haaland has gone to bed in his oxygen chamber and all he can think about is scoring against Arsenal.
“He’s thinking, “I’m gonna smash Lewis-Kelly, I’m gonna do that, he’s gonna get it”, that is what you do if you over-celebrate.”