After receiving bottles and plastic cups during his team’s triumph at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night, Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne poked fun at Arsenal fans.
Manchester City defeated Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates, moving to the top of the Premier League as De Bruyne shone.
He scored the game’s first goal with a beautiful finish before switching roles and assisting Erling Haaland on his team’s third score.
As evidenced by their surprising behavior in the last minutes of the top-of-the-table match, Arsenal’s fans also found De Bruyne’s magic in the middle of the park to be too much for them.
With three minutes left in the game, De Bruyne was substituted by Kalvin Phillips in the 90th minute, and the Arsenal fans threw bottles and glasses at him as they did so.
While walking around the field and grinning at the home crowd, the midfielder swerved to avoid getting smacked by the ball.
While City was celebrating a huge victory, De Bruyne made light of the event by sharing pictures of a glass going his way with the comments “Beer anyone?” and “Thanks!”
Fans were chatting online on social media about the bottle-throwing incident involving De Bruyne.
“Irony of Arsenal fans tossing bottles towards De Bruyne while their players start to bottle the league,” one Twitter user remarked.
“Someone paid roughly £13 on a bottle of prime to chuck it at De Bruyne. They’ve lost their heads,” read a second tweet.
Online discussion was sparked by the bottle-throwing incident involving De Bruyne.
“Irony of Arsenal fans tossing bottles towards De Bruyne while their players start to bottle the league,” one Twitter user remarked.
“Someone paid roughly £13 on a bottle of prime to chuck it at De Bruyne. They’ve lost their heads,” read a second tweet.
De Bruyne receives a “ice pop” bottle of Prime, according to a third. I was surprised that someone didn’t invade the pitch to take it.
“Some shit stain just tossed a bottle at De Bruyne. Total uncalled for,” a fourth person remarked.
Another said: “Looool, De Bruyne on demon time, brother grinned at arsenal fans after having a prime bottle hurled at him.” A fifth said: “
Someone else made fun of it by saying, “Been to Wakey wines spent £1000 on a bottle of Prime to throw and miss De Bruyne with it!”
As his team leaves London with all three points and moves ahead of Arsenal in the league, De Bruyne has the last laugh.