Kieran Trippier makes a subtle dig in response to Gabby Agbonlahor’s Newcastle United dressing room claim made earlier this week.
Agbonlahor slammed the Magpies defender for playing to the cameras with his ‘silly’ decision to travel with his team-mates for the victory at Brentford.
Trippier was also in attendance at St James’ Park to see his side’s 2-1 win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday afternoon.
Ryan Fraser and Fabian Schar got on the scoresheet to help guide Newcastle to yet another impressive win and extend the unbeaten run to eight matches while they now sit seven points clear of the relegation zone.
Following the win, Trippier uploaded an photo of him celebrating with the squad in the dressing room despite not being involved.
Something like this happened after last weekend’s game at the Brentford Community Stadium, where he was pictured leaving the stadium on crutches.
He had surgery for a foot injury and is expected to be out for at least two months, however Eddie Howe is expecting him to play again before the end of the season. The injury hasn’t deterred the ex-Tottenham full-back showing support to his teammates.
Agbonlahor made a jibe about Trippier for backing the club, the 31 year old posted an image on his Instagram story of him celebrating post-match.
He uploaded a pick with a caption: “Might be in trouble for being in this pic.”
Agbonlahor suggested that it was ‘strange’ for Trippier to go all the way down to London and support the Magpies. He also stated that he should’ve stayed at home to ‘rest up’. But Trippier seemingly wasn’t having any of that with his subtle message on his social media account as can be seen in the picture below…
Player ratings
Newcastle: Dubravka (6), Krafth (6), Schar (7), Burn (7), Targett (6), Willock (6), Shelvey (6), Joelinton (6), Fraser (8), Wood (7), Murphy (7).
Subs: Saint-Maximin (6), Guimaraes (n/a), Longstaff (n/a).
Brighton: Sanchez (6), Veltman (6), Duffy (6), Dunk (7), Cucurella (6), Gross (7), Alzate (7), Moder (6), Lamptey (6), Trossard (6), Welbeck (6).
Subs: Maupay (6), March (6), Mac Allister (n/a).
Man of the match: Ryan Fraser.
Despite the result and moving seven points clear of the drop zone, Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe is taking nothing for granted with four away games at Southampton, Chelsea, Everton and Tottenham up next.
“We’ve got a really difficult run of games – we’ve got four away games, which I think for any team in the Premier League is very difficult, and also they are four difficult opponents, so today was very important,” he said.
“I saw the players in the dressing room afterwards and it’s a good sign. They’re pleased, but they’re not over the top in how they are feeling. They know we are still in the midst of a very important spell.
“We’ve come from a long way back and we had a lot of work to do. I remember sitting here after the Watford game at home and we realised we needed to win matches, draws weren’t going to be good enough for us.
“But the players have committed to everything – again today physically, the shift they put in out of possession was huge, so the spirit and the resolve needed is there.
“There could have been improvements in our performance today, but at the moment, it’s all about the results for us and it was another good one.”
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Brighton head coach Graham Potter was disappointed with a fourth defeat in a row but admitted his side got what they deserved despite a performance of some merit.
“From our perspective, it was a blow to go 2-0 down so quickly after starting the game well, the better team and then 2-0, we have to recover, which we did.
“We weren’t great in the first half overall, but I thought we were probably the better team, and then second half we improved again and scored a good goal, pushed and pushed. But it wasn’t to be.”
Twitter users reacted as Kieran Trippier makes a dig in response to Gabby Agbonlahor’s Newcastle dressing room claim…
@NUFC_Gallowgate: @ga11agbon ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ตโ๐ซ
@DavidTa41816701: Love it
@BosTOONArmy: Tripps in there. ๐ค๐ค
@NUFCMitch: I absolutely love seeing Trippier being around
@tinzy2022: @g_agbonlahor getting triggered by @trippier2 on crutches again ๐
@LucyBro61227812: Got to love tripper ๐, be careful though donโt wanna get into trouble ๐ค๐ค @trippier2
@Antony59592160: What a photo we are UNITED. Gabby must love seeing Trippier in the middle ๐คฃ
@jackraffl: Trippier should be at home resting not with the squad ๐ค
@KyleIOWromans: Trippier has turned into John Terry
Eddie Howe and the gaffer ๐ช pic.twitter.com/WUHXmLIDM8
โ Nixon โซ โช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ (@NixonMark89) March 5, 2022
Agbonlahor when he sees this picture and sees Trippier there again pic.twitter.com/0kTEQGsFWI
โ Mohsin Khan (@mkhan185) March 5, 2022
Gabby Agbonlahor seeing Tripper in the photo pic.twitter.com/fuONYs20BH
โ Natural (@CTNatural) March 5, 2022
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