'See you' - Anthony Elanga gives teammate hilarious new nickname ahead of Newcastle United reunion
Newcastle United duo Anthony Elanga and Amar Dedic are set to meet on international duty this weekend as Sweden host Bosnia & Herzegovina in the Nations League.
Newcastle United have 11 first-team players on international duty over the next week.
And two of them, Anthony Elanga and Amar Dedic, will go head-to-head in the Nations League as Sweden host Bosnia & Herzegovina in Stockholm on Saturday. .
The pair formed an effective partnership for Newcastle in the opening weeks of the season as Elanga scored against Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur in the first two matches of the Premier League campaign, with Dedic assisting the latter.
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But hamstring injuries to both players have impacted their partnership since. Dedic withdrew from the Bosnia squad ahead of the last international break due to his injury but the three-week break meant he didn’t miss any matches for Newcastle.
Meanwhile, Elanga has started just one of Newcastle’s last nine matches in all competitions due to a hamstring injury but returns to the Sweden squad having also missed the previous round of Nations League matches.
After Dedic and Elanga have faced one another, Sweden will travel to Poland next Tuesday while Bosnia host Romania.
Amar Dedic bow-and-arrow controversy
It’s been an eventful week for Dedic prior to joining up with Bosnia on international duty as he grabbed headlines after being stopped by Northumbria Police for being found with a bow-and-arrow in the Northumberland countryside last Wednesday.
The 24-year-old was not punished by Newcastle and kept his place in the side for Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Fulham.
And the £30million summer signing clearly saw the funny side of his run-in with the law as he took to Instagram following the match. He posted a series of photos of himself in action in the match before adding an AI image of himself holding a bow and arrow in ‘Robin Hood’ attire.
“Thank you nufc fans for your big support,” he wrote. “We keep going together And if you didn't know, now you know”
The bow and arrow incident also captured the imagination of Dedic’s Newcastle teammates as Elanga looked ahead to this weekend’s international while giving the defender a fitting nickname.
Responding to Dedic’s post, Elanga commented: “See you next week, Robin!”
Elanga will of course be well versed in the Robin Hood story after spending two seasons at Nottingham Forest.