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Gareth Bale's club LAFC tweet about his goal against United States, get absolutely destroyed by their own fans
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Updated 09:46 22 Nov 2022 GMTPublished 09:44 22 Nov 2022 GMT

Gareth Bale's club LAFC tweet about his goal against United States, get absolutely destroyed by their own fans

Gareth Bale scored the equaliser for Wales against the United States, but a tweet from his club LAFC has caused a stir.

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Gareth Bale's club LAFC caused an almighty stir with their tweet after his first ever World Cup goal against the United States.

Bale captained Wales in their first World Cup clash since 1958 as they took on the USA in Group B and netted the equaliser from the spot in the 82nd minute.

The US went 1-0 up in the first half through Timothy Weah but Wales stepped things up in the second half and after Bale was fouled by Walker Zimmerman , he smashed the ball past Matt Turner to send the Cymru fans into raptures behind the goal.

MLS side Los Angeles FC, who Bale joined in June, immediately took to Twitter to post a bizarre graphic of the former Real Madrid star.

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He was wearing his club colours but holding the Wales flag, with a large castle in the background. The caption read, "BAAAAAAAALE!!!", accompanied by the Wales flag emoji.

BAAAAAAAALE!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 pic.twitter.com/NqQtxkfOEt

— LAFC (@LAFC) November 21, 2022

But the post was met by a flurry of angry responses from the club's own fans, who felt they should be supporting the US and not their talisman.

Imagine being a US club and tweeting this… awful ☠️

— Sean (@rover_american) November 21, 2022

So you aren’t rooting for the US?

— Evy #DOOP (@QuadDraw) November 21, 2022

Get out of here with this

— USMNT 🇺🇸 Thoughts (@USMNT_Thoughts) November 21, 2022

Extremely common L from Lafc

— Matthew Gonzales 🇲🇽🇺🇸 (@matthew_gon24) November 21, 2022


Erm yeah this is toxic. It’s offended every part of me.

— Siobhan (@Siobhaneeee) November 21, 2022

I'm confused, lafc support the USA team or just one player from Wales?

— Frenchy (@LittleFrenchyOx) November 22, 2022

Wow. Terrible tweet.

— Logan (@Ocsc_Logan) November 21, 2022

Uh…take a close look at who he’s playing for now & rethink this

— Terridactyl ⭐️🖤♥️🖤🤍🦡 (@terrinh73) November 21, 2022

LAFC are indebted to Bale for his 128th minute equaliser in the MLS cup final win but clearly many felt they got it wrong with the post.

Monday night's clash saw Bale come up against teammate Kellyn Acosta, who took him out with a game-saving tactical foul in the 99th minute.

With Turner out of his goal, Bale was about to strike the ball with his left peg when Acosta brought him cynically.

This foul by Kellyn Acosta is an all time great tactical foul + yellow card. Bale is about to strike it and Turner is still 25 yards from goal in 99th minute. pic.twitter.com/RF1Kt34NqH

— Stu Holden (@stuholden) November 22, 2022

He took the yellow card and the spoils were shared between the two sides at the Al Rayyan Stadium.

Wales take on Iran on Friday in their second group fixture, with group leaders England and the US meeting at the Al Bayt Stadium.

Featured Image Credit: LAFC

Topics: Wales, USA, Gareth Bale, MLS

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Josh is a sports journalist who specialises in football and WWE. He has been published by Curzon Ashton FC, Late Tackle, Manchester City FC, The Mirror, Read Man City and Manchester Evening News. He provides coverage of professional wrestling and has covered two WrestleMania events for SPORTbible.

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