{"id":1089,"date":"2026-05-05T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:35:21","slug":"erling-haaland-sends-five-word-message-to-gunners-after-man-city-draw-with-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland sends five-word message to Gunners after Man City draw with Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Just as Declan Rice did after Arsenal lost to Manchester City last month, Erling Haaland has rallied his teammates after Pep Guardiola\u2019s side failed to beat Everton on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Following <strong>Arsenal\u2019s <\/strong>2-1 defeat to Man City at the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League on April 19, midfielder Rice was caught on camera saying \u2018It\u2019s not done\u2019 to his team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures went viral, with some even mocking Rice, and now it is <strong>Haaland<\/strong> who has rallied his Man City teammates after the Cityzens suffered a blow in their quest to win the Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man City<\/strong> played out a 3-3 draw with Everton away from home at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in the Premier League on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>While Man City fans will be pleased to see the team bounce back from 3-1 down to salvage a draw, it was a case of two points dropped, especially as Man City were 1-0 up at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola\u2019s side are now second in the Premier League table with 71 points from 34 matches, five points behind leaders Arsenal, who have played a game more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Liam Gallagher reveals Pep Guardiola \u2018phone\u2019 call about Man City future after Arsenal insider\u2019s \u2018step down\u2019 claim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal now have a clear advantage in the title race, but Man City striker Haaland is not giving up.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Erling Haaland&#8217;s message as Arsenal gain advantage over Man City<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to <em>BBC Sport<\/em>the Norway international striker, who scored in the 83rd minute against Everton, could be heard saying \u2018We are still in it\u2019 as the star shook the hands of his Man City team-mates and applauded fans at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Like Haaland, Man City winger Jeremy Doku is not giving up on catching Arsenal either.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"e8c3ce70f1ad837bdffb21e2453272b6\" image-id=\"XhXP2NqjNfk9\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Belgian, who scored twice against Everton, told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>when asked about dropping two points: \u201cWe will see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels painful now. There is still a lot of games to go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Premier League 2025\/26 prize money table predicted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost two points today. We will keep on fighting \u2013 we owe it to ourselves and to our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Man City manager Guardiola said about the title race: \u201cIt\u2019s not in our hands. Before it was, now it\u2019s not. We have games left. We will see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While analysing Man City\u2019s display against Everton, Guardiola said: \u201cReally good performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played outstanding in the first half. Really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond half, they made a step up and we maybe weren\u2019t as aggressive and after, of course, we gave away the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter they came back, they make a proper English game \u2013 so aggressive, so, so aggressive in the duels. But in general, we made a really good performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the first half, Guardiola said: \u00a0\u201cIt was more difficult for them to break us down than it was for us to break them down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were outstanding. We arrived at the byline a lot, shot and had chances and it\u2019s not easy because they play very well defensively, with 10 players behind the ball and then transition with Beto and Dewsbury-Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take the point and until it\u2019s over, we will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the second half, Guardiola noted: \u201cIn general we were good in our process. We arrived on the left side and Doku was outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately we could not capitalise, especially like we did in the first half. Everton away is always difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: The Famous F365 Friday Quiz: Music stars, bands and their football clubs\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Declan Rice did after Arsenal lost to Manchester City last month, Erling Haaland has rallied his teammates after Pep Guardiola\u2019s side failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}