James Maddison’s BRUTAL response to Bukayo Saka copying his darts celebration as north London derby ends 2-2

James Maddison has hilariously hit back at Bukayo Saka after recreating the England midfielder’s famous darts celebration.

It happened during Sunday’s thrilling North London derby, with the pair playing an integral role in the 2-2 draw.

Saka orchestrated the first goal for Arsenal by taking a shot that eventually deflected off Cristian Romero into the back of the net to give Arsenal the lead.

Despite it being an own goal, the 22-year-old spun away in delight and pretended to throw a dart at a dartboard.

But he may have regretted his actions shortly afterwards, when the Spurs midfielder went one-on-one with Saka, dropped his shoulder, rounded the winger and pulled the ball back to find Son Heung-min in the penalty area.

Saka appeared to mock Maddison and pretended to throw a dart after scoring

Son made no mistake by firing the ball into the back of the net, bringing the away team level just before half-time.

After the match, Maddison was asked what he thought about his England teammate copying his celebration and he had a fantastic response.

“Me and Bukayo had some jokes, some trash talk about international duties,” he said.

‘And I was told he was doing the darts party, he must have still been doing that when I turned him for the first goal.’

In a separate video, the 26-year-old can be seen walking away from the changing rooms and was asked by a reporter: ‘A quick 501 at Ally Pally against Bukayo Saka?’

Maddison responded with a laugh: “His action was terrible, wasn’t it!”

The Spurs midfielder is known for his interest in darts, having been spotted at the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace last December.

Saka would score again after Romero handled the ball in the penalty area. The England forward made no mistake from the penalty spot to claim his fourth Premier League goal of the season.

But as before, Mikel Arteta’s side were unable to maintain their winning margin, with Maddison stealing the ball from Jorginho in midfield before playing in Son, who guided the ball past David Raya into the net to make it 2-2 .

Spurs have won just once against Arsenal in their last five meetings, but reflecting on the hard-fought draw, Maddison said: “When you come to a quality team like Arsenal, heads can drop, momentum can shift when you concede a goal , but we kept playing.

‘Even in the early stages we gave the ball away in difficult places on the pitch, but courage lies in the way we play, even when mistakes occur.

But Maddison (left) has hilariously hit back at Saka (right), claiming he was ‘still doing it when I turned him for the first goal’ (pictured above)

Maddison (right) assisted Son Heung-min (left) twice to help Spurs win a point against Arsenal

‘We did that and we dominated for a large part of the match and scored two good goals.’

Arteta, meanwhile, admitted he was frustrated with the result at full-time.

He said: ‘We wanted more, but you have to make the most of it and we didn’t do that. The moments when we dominated the game and were in control, we conceded the goals and that was a big blow.

‘Playing in front of this crowd in a derby doesn’t get much better than that, and I think the players were so excited, but sometimes you can be too hyped because then we lacked some composure on the ball to gain more control, but we we have to take the draw, there is nothing else we can do.”