{"id":10166,"date":"2020-11-28T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=77135"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T11:43:41","slug":"dani-ceballos-opens-up-on-training-altercation-with-teammate-david-luiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/dani-ceballos-opens-up-on-training-altercation-with-teammate-david-luiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Ceballos opens up on training altercation with teammate David Luiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Athletic journalist David Ornstein, David Luiz and Dani Ceballos had a physical altercation in training last week that led to Ceballos having a bleeding nose. Reasons for the fight were not specified. Ornstein also mentioned that both players apologized and things were normal after the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Tensions boiled over in Arsenal training Fri as Luiz hit Ceballos on nose, with scratch drawing blood. When squad returned Tue both apologised + group have continued as normal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFC<\/a> will hope fighting spirit is channeled positively! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7JjNc5eGWh\">https:\/\/t.co\/7JjNc5eGWh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1329454588450254848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ceballos replied to Ornstein\u2019s tweet, calling it \u201cFAKE\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FAKE <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QOrbZpXF8J\">https:\/\/t.co\/QOrbZpXF8J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Ceballos (@DaniCeballos46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniCeballos46\/status\/1329463425597124608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an interesting turn of events, Ceballos has opened up on the incident suggesting that it actually may have happened which leaves a lot of question marks over his reply to the Athletic journalist.<\/p>\n<p>He said, <strong>\u201cIt was not an exemplary behaviour but it is good to see Arsenal is alive \u2013 that the team has character.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta also had his say on the incident, suggesting things get competitive in training but is also disappointed that things got leaked in the media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTraining is very competitive and issues happen a lot of times, There is no problem at all [between the two players] but I don\u2019t like the fact that that incident comes out at all. And I will find out where it is coming from and if that is the case, that goes completely against what I expect from each other, the privacy and the confidentiality that we need, and there will be consequences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Ceballos has been in an altercation with one of his teammates. During a warmup for the first league game of the season against Fulham, the Spanish midfielder had a bust up with teammate Eddie Nketiah, where both got physical and had to be separated from each other.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video: Dani Ceballos & Eddie Nketiah have a heated exchange in the warm-up. [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronLee01?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CameronLee01<\/a> via BT] <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/afc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#afc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uVM7CCzigP\">pic.twitter.com\/uVM7CCzigP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 afcstuff (@afcstuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcstuff\/status\/1304742966087634944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Athletic journalist David Ornstein, David Luiz and Dani Ceballos had a physical altercation in training last week\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":32674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,1153,1154,702,218],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-dani-ceballos","tag-eddie-nketiah","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-premier-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}