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EPL: Haaland Has No Regrets Over Throwing Ball At Gabriel
City managed to secure a point with a dramatic 99th-minute equalizer from John Stones, having played nearly an hour with just ten men.
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As Stones celebrated, Haaland retrieved the ball from the net and threw it against the back of Gabriel’s head before quickly running away.
The incident quickly gained attention, though Gabriel downplayed it in an interview with TNT Sport Brazil, stating, “I don’t even remember this. It’s normal; they were happy after scoring in the last minute.”
Haaland was recently asked about his actions and provided a typically straightforward response.
“In the heat of the moment things happened in that game,” he told a press conference while on national duty for Norway. “What happens on the pitch, stays on the pitch. That’s how it is.”
Asked if he regretted the incident, he simply replied: “I don’t regret much in life.”
Haaland was making a rare appearance in a press conference – he has only faced the media in that format three times at City of which only one was in the middle of a season.
He is similarly media-shy for Norway as he is often required to conduct post-match flash interviews which take priority due to broadcasting commitments.
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He offered a series of short answers, sometimes giving it back to the journalists. At one point he said he would stop for a post-match interview ‘if anyone wants to ask me any interesting questions.’
When asked if he thought about breaking the Norwegian goalscoring record, he simply replied ‘no’, and offered another ‘no comment’ to a question about meeting Cristiano Ronaldo on holiday.
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