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Alexandre Lacazette Reveals Why He Changed His Goal Celebration Against Everton

Alexandre Lacazette Reveals Why He Changed His Goal Celebration Against Everton

The French striker helped Arsenal to a big win and sped up Ronald Koeman's exit from Goodison Park in the process.

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

Alexandre Lacazette helped Arsenal to a big win over Everton on Sunday and then followed it up with a different celebration to his usual. The Frenchman confirmed why he changed his usual post goal tradition.

You have to feel sorry for Arsenal, they scored five goals away from home and couldn't even be the biggest football story of the day, in north London or even their own match as circumstances dictated they wouldn't steal the headlines.

Under pressure Everton took the lead against the Gunners on Sunday and the typical Arsenal performance looked on its way but instead Arsene Wenger's side turned things round and battered Everton 5-2.

Arsenal ran riot against a poor Everton side who sacked their manager on the back of the result. Image: PA

However the Toffees fellow Merseysiders Liverpool would go on to shift five goals against Spurs in the later game giving all the headlines to Harry Kane and Dejan Lovren and on Monday Everton went on to sack Ronald Koeman to lead Arsenal to be largely forgotten from Sunday's action.

One man who certainly caught the eye on Sunday was Alexandre Lacazette, who scored his side's third goal. After that strike the Frenchman was expected to do his usual trumpet celebration but instead busted out the Star Trek Vulcan salute.

Lacazette took to Twitter to confirm that his new celebration was a in honour of his former teammate at Lyon Corentin Tolisso who is now at Bayern Munich:

As well as clearly being mates from their time together in Ligue 1, as well as in the national team, the reason that Lacazette decided to follow Tolisso's celebration was in answer to the opposite happening.

The midfielder usually goes for the vulcan salute when he scores but on Saturday bagged Bayern's winner against Hamburg and went for a trumpet instead:

The 23 year old moved to the Bundesliga from France in the summer and held the title for the biggest transfer fee received for Lyon at an initial €41.5 million before Lacazette broke the record not long after, costing Arsenal €53 million.

For once the Gunners would have liked to be in the headlines and actually missed out, typical!

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Topics: Goal, Premier League, Everton, Arsenal, Alexandre Lacazette, Bayern Munich, Ronald Koeman