James Maddison has brutally stuck the knife into Neal Maupay's goalscoring record after the pair butted heads in Tottenham's win over Brentford.
Spurs went behind to the visitors early in the match when Maupay scored his second goal in as many games for Brentford.
The 27-year-old has struggled to find the net on a regular basis since leaving Brighton in 2022 and scored just once for Everton last season before he joined Brentford.
He's enjoyed better form at the west London club, but caused some uproar in Tottenham's stadium when he copied Maddison's trademark dart-throwing celebration after his early goal with Ivan Toney also joining in.
James Maddison hit back at Neal Maupay
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Maddison was unimpressed on the pitch with the pair pushing and shoving each other in an angry exchange.
Tottenham had no answer for Maupay's opener until the second half when Destiny Udogie levelled the match.
The hosts took the lead just seconds later through Brennan Johnson, who then celebrated with Maddison's dart-throwing gesture.
Richarlison then did exactly the same after he added a third for Tottenham and Maddison stuck the knife in even further in a post-match interview with a brutal swipe at Maupay.
He told TNT Sports: "I just said to him he probably hasn't scored enough goals of his own in the last few years to have his own celebration so he had to copy mine.
"Short story, but it ended well for us anyway."
Tottenham's win over Brentford marked Maddison's first Premier League game since the start of November.
The midfielder had been battling an ankle injury and made his comeback last week in the narrow 1-0 defeat to Manchester City.
The two players clashed after Neal Maupay's celebration
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And Maddison was glad to mark his return to Premier League football with a win for Spurs to move them back into the top four.
He said: "It was lovely to be back. When you're injured and starved of doing what you love, that just reminded me why I love football so much, just being out there tonight.
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Neal Maupay caused some anger among the Tottenham players
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"First half was stop-start, the kind of first half Brentford would have wanted, a lot of stoppages and set-pieces.
"In the second half, we had too much for them. It's never simple and plain sailing here, there's always a lot of goals at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium."
