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Aaron Ramsdale celebrates in Ruben Neves’ face; Bruno Lage apologises to Mikel Arteta

Aaron Ramsdale has been labelled a shithouse as he celebrates in Ruben Neves’ face while Bruno Lage apologises to Mikel Arteta.

The Gunners goalkeeper ran half the length of the Emirates Stadium pitch to taunt Neves after Arsenal’s dramatic win over Wolves on Thursday.

Jose Sa’s 95th minute own goal sealed a big win for Arteta’s side as they continue to battle for a place in the top four.

Wolves are among their challengers for that final Champions League spot and Ramsdale wanted some revenge on Neves, celebrating at him before looking for his teammates.

Neves questioned Arsenal’s mentality after witnessing their dramatic celebrations at Molineux last month and boy it caused quite a reaction online.

Arsenal ran out 1-0 winners in the reverse fixture and Neves believes the celebrations were over the top, saying at the time: “We did well but we are struggling to score goals and conceding a lot on set-pieces,” said the Portugal international at full-time.

“With their goal there is some doubt about whether it was a foul or not but that’s football. We are used to these decisions.

“We need to improve a lot on scoring goals because we are creating chances but we’re not good enough in that part of the game.

“I can accept the decision about their goal but in some games they give it and in some games they don’t. They need to do the same decisions in every game because it’s frustrating for us.

“We saw the way they celebrated the win and that shows the level we are. I didn’t see Arsenal celebrating like this in the past 10 years – it was like they won the league.”

Neves again spoke at full time but this time, he admitted this occasion Arsenal were worthy winners.

The Portugal international confessed per The Mirror: “We didn’t deserve to win to be honest.

“We had some good chances to score, but we didn’t play well. They took us back all the game after going 1-0 up and we just defended.

“When you don’t have the ball against these kind of teams you will suffer. We need to manage the ball better against these kinds of teams.

“This was an important game for us and for the league but this is the Premier League and everyone will drop points. We just want to go game-by-game.

Wolves led for the majority of the game after Hwang Hee-chan scored the opener and the visitors were keen to run down the clock on several occasions – much to the frustration of Arsenal.

However there was a bizarre moment before Arsenal got their winner with Raul Jimenez being shown a yellow card when his name was called for a substitution as Lage insisted he intended for Daniel Podence to make way.

After the game, Lage was quick to point out the situation was a breakdown in communication on the Wolves bench and he apologised to both Arteta and referee Martin Atkinson for the confusion.

“The first thing is to say about that situation in the end, it was bad communication between me and my staff,” Lage told Amazon Prime Video.

“I changed my mind at the last minute and that’s why we were so confused about that.

“That’s why I apologise to the referee, also to Arteta, about that, because it was not in my mind to come here and to waste time or do these kinds of things, but we move on.”

The result is a big blow to Wolves’ European ambitions though remain seventh in the standings ahead of a trip to West Ham at the weekend.

“This is football,” Lage said. “It is 96 minutes and we need to be in the game all the minutes.

“We had three good chances to go 2-0. Arsenal then come and score two goals and get the three points. It was a good game. I think we deserved more than we got but this is football.

“I am proud of my players. We played well, we came here to play with our personality. We don’t win together but now is to recover and go again against West Ham.”

Player ratings

Arsenal: Ramsdale (6), Soares (6), White (7), Gabriel (5), Tierney (6), Partey (7), Xhaka (6), Saka (7), Odegaard (8), Martinelli (6), Lacazette (6).

Subs: Pepe (8), Nketiah (7), Tavares (6).

Wolves: Jose Sa (6), Kilman (7), Coady (8), Saiss (7), Semedo (6), Moutinho (7), Neves (7), Ait-Nouri (6), Hwang (7), Podence (8), Jimenez (6).

Subs: Jonny (6), Neto (5), Dendoncker (6).

Man of the match: Martin Odegaard.

Twitter users reacted as Aaron Ramsdale celebrates in Ruben Neves’ face after Thursday night’s game…

@JayBeackz: I fucking love Rambo man 😂

@AFC_Lukas: Raises his arms as he gets closer 😭 my keeper

@JonahByakutaaga: Neves is going to complain about these celebrations again 😂😂

@VipArsenal: Aaron Ramsdale. How could anyone not like this guy. Bar Neves. 🤣😭

@ZimboGunners: I like the spirit of Shithousery from Ramsdale celebrating Arsenal’s victory in front on loud mouth Neves. Things you’d love to see

@Iaudrupacked: How’s that for a celebration @Wolves?

@CirezB: Fully focused on Neves & Coady here. Miserable cunts.

@ChopperH5791: Loved Ramsdale purposely waving his arms about celebrating as he went past the Wolves players. 😅

@goonerjody: Many things last night made me laugh. Like the stadium announcer saying “Wolves substitution……..eventually” but my fave & I dunno if the TV cameras picked it up, was @AaronRamsdale98 running to the half way line at ft & cheering right in the face of Neves. #shithousery #AFC

@FplSparta: I love this guy man. Rattles everyone so much😂 and doesn’t get fussed when they try to do it do him.

@marcustudor: The passion is back between the fans and players, best I’ve seen in years, exciting times if we can keep this going! #COYG

@jamesholt90: Love this shithouse

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