Aymeric Laporte aims cheeky dig at Southampton defender after Man City win

Aymeric Laporte couldn’t resist aiming a cheeky dig at opponent Jannik Vestergaard following Manchester Metropolis’s victory over Southampton.

Pep Guardiola’s males beat the Saints 5-2 on the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night as they bounced again from their derby defeat to Manchester United.

The consequence restored City ‘s 14-point lead over United on the prime of the Premier League desk.

It was not fairly the proper evening for Laporte, nevertheless, as he conceded a first-half penalty.

The defender – recalled to the beginning line-up rather than John Stones – was adjudged to have fouled fellow centre-back Vestergaard within the field and James Ward-Prowse transformed from the spot within the twenty fifth minute to cancel out Kevin De Bruyne’s opener.

Laporte was apparently none too impressed by the way in which Vestergaard went down as he took to social media at full-time.

Posting {a photograph} of the incident on Twitter, the Frenchman mentioned sarcastically: “Glad everybody made it secure after this enormous storm of wind.”

A sequence of emojis adopted, together with a laughing face.

Laported went on to say: “Nice consequence, we simply getting restarted, come on Metropolis!!”

After Southampton had equalised, Metropolis regained management as objectives from Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan put them 3-1 up on the break.

Mahrez and De Bruyne netted once more after the interval, both aspect of a Che Adams strike, to finish the scoring.

Earlier, Metropolis may have had a penalty of their very own when Phil Foden went down below the problem of Alex McCarthy – however the keeper was given the good thing about the doubt.

Sky Sports activities pundit Graeme Souness mentioned Foden was “too honest” for rapidly getting again to his ft moderately than attraction for a spot kick.