Douglas Luiz responds to Rio Ferdinand dig after Manchester United win vs Aston Villa Sky SportsDouglas Luiz has explained his goal celebration against Manchester United after being mocked by Rio Ferdinand following Scott McTominay\u2019s late winner. Luiz scored Villa\u2019s equaliser against United and celebrated with a shimmy, which many assumed was aimed in the direction of United goalkeeper Andre Onana. Sky Sports presenter Kelly Cates added fuel to the fire by baselessly theorising that there might be some bad blood between Luiz and Onana, but Luiz said on Monday morning that it was simply a reference to carnival season in his home country of Brazil, which started on Saturday. Ferdinand asked if Luiz was ok, with several crying-laughing emojis, and Luiz simply responded: \u201cI\u2019m good, thanks. It\u2019s just carnival time in Brazil.\u201d Erik ten Hag was asked after the match if Luiz\u2019s celebration had given United extra motivation to win but played down the significance of the incident. \u201cI don\u2019t have an opinion about that,\u201d Ten Hag said. \u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to the players. Maybe it\u2019s fuelling, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t think it is important. It is about us, we have to think about our game and not the opposition.\u201d United\u2019s win was one of their most important of the season as it keeps them within touching distance of Aston Villa and Tottenham who are currently fifth and fourth in the Premier League respectively. Next up for Ten Hag\u2019s side are games against Luton and Fulham, before a trip to Nottingham Forest in the fifth round of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Douglas Luiz responds to Rio Ferdinand dig after Manchester United win vs Aston Villa Sky SportsDouglas Luiz has explained his goal celebration against Manchester United after being mocked by Rio Ferdinand following Scott McTominay\u2019s late winner. Luiz scored Villa\u2019s equaliser against United and celebrated with a shimmy, which many assumed was aimed in the direction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}