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Oliver King & Aaron Catterson-Reid

Eni Aluko disagrees with Ruben Neves and Conor Coady on Arsenal incident during Wolves clash

Eni Aluko has had her say on Arsenal's celebrations during their 1-0 win against Wolves a fortnight ago.

Mikel Arteta's side recorded a vital win in the Premier League clash at Molineux thanks to a first-half finish from Gabriel Magalhaes.

However, both Ruben Neves and Conor Coady were left unimpressed by the Gunners' antics after the game, claiming that the celebrations were far-fetched.

Speaking after the game, Portuguese international Neves said: "We saw the way they celebrated the win and that shows the level we are.

“I didn't see Arsenal celebrating like this in the past 10 years - it was like they won the league.”

England international Coady echoed his teammates' verdict, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “We’ve seen them [the celebrations], we heard them. We’ve obviously seen the whole thing, I know Ruben has obviously spoken out after it.

“They celebrated quite hard, didn’t they? It probably obviously shows how big the game was to them, and to us – it was big to us as well.

“Listen, we spoke about it all week, we prepared right, we made sure we were ready and I actually thought we played quite well if I’m being honest.

“We had the ball, we created different things, but listen Arsenal are a top side. So we’ve seen the celebrations, I’ll be honest with you, from our point of view, we really didn’t like them.”

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Now, Aluko has disagreed with the Wolves duo, claiming that Arsenal's reaction to the win was completely normal.

Speaking on Amazon Prime, she said: "You are absolutely entitled to celebrate, this is what we want to see, we want to see emotion, we want to see passion, footballers are not robotic, we want to see this.

"These are two teams that are fighting for the top four places, there will be no love lost and I think we are going to see that again this evening.

"Whether something happened in the changing rooms I don’t know that made things a little spicier. Conor Coady came out and said it was disrespectful but we all want to see that little bit of spice."

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