‘Give me your right foot please’ – Crocked Arsenal star issues plea to Declan Rice in dressing room after stunning goals
DECLAN RICE had injured Arsenal team-mate Gabriel pleading to have his right foot following his pair of stunning free-kicks against Real Madrid. Rice scored two sensational set-pieces at the Emirates to help the Gunners to a 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first leg victory. https://x.com/now_arsenaIGabriel demanded he have Declan Rice’s right foot[/caption] https://x.com/now_arsenaIIt came after Rice’s two wonder free kicks[/caption] https://twitter.com/primevideosport/status/1909704672798982542 https://twitter.com/primevideosport/status/1909706827421409740 His first beautifully curled around the wall past keeper Thibaut Courtois while the second rifled into the top corner. Mikel Merino put the game – and possibly the tie – to bed before the end but Rice rightly took all the spoils. And even crocked defender Gabriel – out for the remainder of the season with a hamstring injury – was left stunned. He told Rice: “Give me your right foot, please, please, please. Come here, Dec. Give me, give me. Unbelievable brother!” Rice had only taken 12 free-kicks as a professional without scoring – but two came in one match. He said: “I don’t know whether it will ever sink in I’ve gone back to my phone then and it’s gone crazy. “To score my first free-kick in a game is a special one. And then when I got the second one. I just had the confidence. I’m speechless really. “I don’t think it’s going to hit me, what I’ve done tonight. It’s a historic night.” CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS Arsenal now travel to the Spanish capital next Wednesday in the return tie with a healthy lead thanks to talisman Rice. Manager Mikel Arteta said: “Declan’s been very determined because we have said in the last few months that we have not scored a direct free-kick in three-and-half years. “So, to score two goals in 12 minutes of that magnitude and of that quality from the same player, a player that has never scored a free-kick before in his career, what are the odds? “This night was all about two factors; one is the atmosphere that we created 15 minutes before kick-off with something I haven’t seen before. “And then the magic, the individual moments that decide all matches. And the first two goals from Declan sums up the night.” GettyMikel Arteta hailed Rice after his free-kick heroics[/caption]
DECLAN RICE had injured Arsenal team-mate Gabriel pleading to have his right foot following his pair of stunning free-kicks against Real Madrid.
Rice scored two sensational set-pieces at the Emirates to help the Gunners to a 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first leg victory.
His first beautifully curled around the wall past keeper Thibaut Courtois while the second rifled into the top corner.
Mikel Merino put the game – and possibly the tie – to bed before the end but Rice rightly took all the spoils.
And even crocked defender Gabriel – out for the remainder of the season with a hamstring injury – was left stunned.
He told Rice: “Give me your right foot, please, please, please. Come here, Dec. Give me, give me. Unbelievable brother!”
Rice had only taken 12 free-kicks as a professional without scoring – but two came in one match.
He said: “I don’t know whether it will ever sink in I’ve gone back to my phone then and it’s gone crazy.
“To score my first free-kick in a game is a special one. And then when I got the second one. I just had the confidence. I’m speechless really.
“I don’t think it’s going to hit me, what I’ve done tonight. It’s a historic night.”
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Arsenal now travel to the Spanish capital next Wednesday in the return tie with a healthy lead thanks to talisman Rice.
Manager Mikel Arteta said: “Declan’s been very determined because we have said in the last few months that we have not scored a direct free-kick in three-and-half years.
“So, to score two goals in 12 minutes of that magnitude and of that quality from the same player, a player that has never scored a free-kick before in his career, what are the odds?
“This night was all about two factors; one is the atmosphere that we created 15 minutes before kick-off with something I haven’t seen before.
“And then the magic, the individual moments that decide all matches. And the first two goals from Declan sums up the night.”
