Ivan Toney has labelled Gabriel Magalhaes’ ‘Nice kick about with the boys’ tweet after Arsenal’s win at Brentford as ‘cringey.’
The Gunners regained the Premier League’s top spot with a win over the Bees at Brentford Community Stadium. Fabio Vieira, Gabriel Jesus, and William Saliba scored goals to secure a comfortable three-point victory.
It was quite a different result than the match last season when Brentford won 2-0 in its first Premier League game.
After that win, Toney had tweeted ‘Nice kick about with the boys’, with Arteta conveying his message to his teammatesBefore the reverse fixture at Emirates Stadium.
It had the desired effect as Arsenal won 2-1, Alexandre Lacazette posting the exact same phrase to mock Toney’s earlier tweet.
Gabriel Immediately after the weekend win, they followed suit., again posting: “Nice kick about with the boys’ – but this time Toney did not see the funny side.
“I think once was funny, second time was a bit cringey,” he joked. “I bit my tongue, I wanted to reply and wanted to nibble.
“But fair play to them, they are a different Arsenal side to the one we played before.”
Toney will tweet about his England debut, after he was called up following a successful start to the campaign with Bees.
England will travel to Milan on Friday to face Italy in Nations League. Germany will host Germany at Wembley three day later with both matches live on talkSPORT.
“So surreal,” Toney added when asked how it felt to be in and around the squad preparing for the games.
“I feel like I’m sitting in here in an England top is such a privilege and is massive for me and my family and also my club.
“It is not just me that has done this, it is everyone around me that has played a massive part.”
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