Jamie Carragher Martin Odegaard
Martin Odegaard has jested that he is ‘scared’ to celebrate after Jamie Carragher’s slammed the Arsenal captain for over-celebrating.
After Arsenal beat Liverpool 3-1 at the Emirates at the start of February, Odegaard celebrated by taking pictures of the club photographer in front of jubilant fans.
His actions drew the ire of Liverpool legend Carragher, who said: ‘Dear me. Just get down the tunnel. You’ve won a game. It’s three points.
‘They’ve been brilliant, they’re back in the title race, get down the tunnel.’
His comments were incredibly divisive, with Odegaard hitting back by saying: ‘And if you’re not allowed to celebrate when you win a game, when are you allowed to celebrate?’
On Monday night, the pair were reunited after Arsenal thrashed Sheffield United 6-0 at Bramall Lane, a win that puts the Gunners back within two points of Liverpool and Manchester City in he title race.
The attacking midfielder scored the opening goal within five minutes and was later awarded player of the match.
Odegaard’s actions were called out by the ‘celebration police’ (Photo: Getty)
Carragher was among those interviewing the Norway skipper post-match where he cheekily told him: Martin, it was a fantastic performance by yourself and a great win for the team.
‘I just didn’t see the photographer on the pitch! Is he in the dressing room? Are you going to get together?’
A laughing Odegaard quipped in response: ‘I was waiting for you to say something!
‘I was too scared to [take a photo] today, so I went straight inside today!’
Reflecting on the game, the 25-year-old said: ‘We know it is a tough place to come so we have done really good from the start, we took control of the game, we know what their game is about, they want to play a lot of direct football, and we had to be ready for that.
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‘And then when we had the ball, we were in a good mood today and we created a lot, we scored the goals early on and kept on going from there and in the end it was a solid and nice performance.
‘We wanted to keep the momentum going, we’ve had some good games now in the league and we wanted to keep it up, we always want to start strong, especially at places like this where it can be a bit tricky if you do not start well and today we did and we did not stop from there.’
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