Mesut Ozil further endeared himself to Arsenal fans as he took to Twitter to mock Tottenham’s ‘dusty’ trophy cabinet in the wake of the side’s Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City.
Sunday’s showpiece, which was played in front of 8,000 fans at Wembley, had looked on course for extra-time but Aymeric Laporte had other ideas and was City’s unlikely hero with a powerful headed winner in the 82nd minute.
It meant Pep Guardiola’s men have clinched the trophy in each of the last four seasons and the result saw them equal Liverpool’s all-time tally of eight League Cup triumphs.
Spurs, meanwhile, have lost all of their last three finals in the competition and the club’s 13-year trophy drought continues, with the match representing their final realistic shot at silverware this term.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Arsenal supporters revelled in Spurs’ misery and Ozil joined in the fun with a short yet savage post on Sunday night which quickly racked up thousands of likes and retweets.
‘It remains dusty… #LeagueCupFinal,’ the ex-Arsenal midfielder, now with Fenerbahce, told his 26 million followers