{"id":34073,"date":"2026-05-20T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/declan-rice-and-bukayo-saka-arrive-at-emirates-at-5am-for-arsenal-party-soccer-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:03:42","slug":"declan-rice-and-bukayo-saka-arrive-at-emirates-at-5am-for-arsenal-party-soccer-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/declan-rice-and-bukayo-saka-arrive-at-emirates-at-5am-for-arsenal-party-soccer-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka arrive at Emirates at 5am for Arsenal party | Soccer | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"photo changeSpace\">\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/67\/590x\/secondary\/6930718.jpg?r=1779263280344\" alt=\"Declan Rice celebrates outside Emirates at 5am.\" title=\"Declan Rice celebrates outside Emirates at 5am.\" width=\"354\" height=\"543\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"newsCaption\">Declan Rice celebrates outside Emirates at 5am. <span class=\"caption\">(Image: Reddit)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s stars celebrated into the early hours of the morning at their Premier League victory party, with Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and a host of team-mates turning up at Emirates Stadium at 5am. The Gunners clinched their first league title in 22 years after Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>The team initially met at the training ground, with players, Mikel Arteta and staff watching the City game together. Arsenal&#8217;s 1-0 win over Burnley on Monday meant Josep Guardiola&#8217;s side needed all three points on the south coast to advance to the final day of the title race, but they fell short.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Celebrations began in Colney and thousands of supporters made their way to the Emirates, where they were joined by club legend Ian Wright. Rice gave a glimpse of the celebration, posting a photo with his teammates on Instagram and captioning it, &#8220;I told you guys&#8230;it&#8217;s over,&#8221; along with trophy and love heart emojis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Meanwhile, Saka and Miles Lewis-Skelly hit out at critics who suggested Arsenal would &#8220;bottleneck&#8221; the title. &#8220;They called us bottlers and now we have the bottle,&#8221; Louis Skelly said, clutching a bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Saka replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m holding a bottle right now. That&#8217;s right!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Express sports on FB! Get all the best sports news and more on our Facebook page<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Last month, after Arsenal lost 2-1 at home to Bournemouth, a City supporter brandished a water bottle with the Arsenal logo on it and pretended to drink water, an apparent rant that implied the Gunners would &#8220;lose&#8221; the title race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>The footage racked up more than 700,000 views on X within 60 minutes, intensifying the pressure on Arsenal&#8217;s Championship challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Several team members were then captured on video arriving at Emirates Stadium in the early hours of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>One fan filmed Julian Timber, Saka, Rice, Eberechi Eze and others walking outside the ground. \u201cDon\u2019t play with them, dude,\u201d said the fan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo changeSpace\">\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/67\/590x\/secondary\/6930721.jpg?r=1779263284696\" alt=\"Bukayo Saka also took part in the stadium festivities.\" title=\"Bukayo Saka also took part in the stadium festivities.\" width=\"352\" height=\"541\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"newsCaption\">Bukayo Saka also took part in the stadium festivities. <span class=\"caption\">(Image: Reddit)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"photo changeSpace\">\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/67\/590x\/secondary\/6930722.jpg?r=1779263284802\" alt=\"Eberechi Eze\" title=\"Eberechi Eze\" width=\"590\" height=\"1055\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"newsCaption\">Eberechi Eze has silenced Arsenal&#8217;s critics. <span class=\"caption\">(Image: Instagram)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the champion now, we\u2019re living with the champion now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Eze also posted a significant photo outside the Emirates with his finger on his lips, an unmistakable &#8220;silence&#8221; directed at his critics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>World Cup Legends: The stars of soccer&#8217;s biggest tournament in history &#8211; buy the special edition now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Guardiola, who has given up on the title challenge, congratulated his former assistant Arteta. &#8220;Congratulations to Mikel and Arsenal. They were phenomenal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>&#8220;We were close. On behalf of all of Manchester City, I would like to congratulate Mikel and all the staff, players and fans on winning the Premier League. They deserve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>It has been an emotional week for Guardiola, with the City boss preparing to leave the Etihad after 10 years in charge after Sunday&#8217;s final home game against Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-description\">\n<p>Arsenal are ready to lift the Premier League trophy this Sunday as they travel the short distance to Selhurst Park for their final match against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2207522\/Arsenal-title-party-Rice-Saka-Emirates\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan Rice celebrates outside Emirates at 5am. (Image: Reddit) Arsenal&#8217;s stars celebrated into the early hours of the morning at their Premier League victory party, with Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and a host of team-mates turning up at Emirates Stadium at 5am. The Gunners clinched their first league title in 22 years after Manchester City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-matches"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka arrive at Emirates at 5am for Arsenal party | Soccer | Sports - EPL VIP \u2013 Latest English Premier League News &amp; Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/declan-rice-and-bukayo-saka-arrive-at-emirates-at-5am-for-arsenal-party-soccer-sports\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka arrive at Emirates at 5am for Arsenal party | Soccer | Sports - EPL VIP \u2013 Latest English Premier League News &amp; Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Declan Rice celebrates outside Emirates at 5am. 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