We’ve seen it all from players feigning injury after video proves no contact to Arsenal’s Nicolas Pepe now being injured by the ball.
Heading the ball is a major part of football with defenders, midfielders and strikers all doing it repeatedly in a game but this is a new one for us to see the ball alone injure Arsenal’s winger.
It isn’t something you see everyday and something we are sure Pepe wont want to watch the replays after the game of as the player will surely be embarrassed by his actions.
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Arsenal are still one goal down in the second half and aren’t any better off after Pepe’s hilarious attempt at winning a foul and possibly getting an Aston Villa player booked.
Did he really think this would work or does the ball really hurt?
I hope a reporter has the courage to ask him what it felt like after the game.