{"id":2956,"date":"2026-04-20T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:39:13","slug":"what-is-that-erling-haaland-reacts-to-gabriel-headbutt-with-manchester-city-striker-claiming-he-did-nothing-to-provoke-arsenal-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat is that?!\u201d \u00bb: Erling Haaland reacts to Gabriel headbutt, with Manchester City striker claiming he &#8216;did nothing&#8217; to provoke Arsenal defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Haaland&#8217;s frustration extended to the very nature of the altercation and the referee&#8217;s reaction. Asked by <\/span><span>Viaplay<\/span><span>the attacker expressed his disbelief: \u201cShould I alert the referee? Never mind. Look at this, what is this circus?! (It&#8217;s not football), I know that well. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked about referee Anthony Taylor&#8217;s explanation for showing two yellow cards, the 25-year-old replied casually: \u201cHe says it&#8217;s both sides&#8217; fault. He always says that. \u00bb Despite the incident, the attacker insisted he had done nothing to provoke his opponent. \u201cAfter the winning goal, did I say anything to the defender? No, nothing at all. I would never do something like that\u2026 Well, okay, maybe sometimes! But no, I didn&#8217;t do anything. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaland&#8217;s frustration extended to the very nature of the altercation and the referee&#8217;s reaction. Asked by Viaplaythe attacker expressed his disbelief: \u201cShould I alert the referee? Never mind. Look at this, what is this circus?! (It&#8217;s not football), I know that well. \u00bb Asked about referee Anthony Taylor&#8217;s explanation for showing two yellow cards, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}