PEP GUARDIOLA has again been spotted with what appears to beryllium much scratches connected his head.
The Manchester City boss, 54, watched his broadside surrender a precocious 2-1 pb to suffer 3-2 to Real Madrid astatine the Etihad.
Fans thought they could spot scratches connected Pep Guardiola’s head
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City’s last-gasp decision leaves them with an uphill conflict successful the Spanish superior adjacent week.
Earlier this season, Guardiola sported respective cuts connected his caput aft City gave up a 3-0 pb to Feyenoord successful the Champions League.
He went connected to accidental “I privation to harm myself” earlier issuing an apology for the joke, claiming that helium did not mean to marque airy of self-harming with his words.
Guardiola again wore scratches connected his caput during City’s clash with Club Brugge past month.
Posting a representation of the City brag this evening, a instrumentality connected societal media wrote: “Pep is stressed man.”
The reigning Premier League champions had begun the nighttime by poking amusive astatine Vinicius Jr’s Ballon d’Or snub, with fans holding up a tifo of Rodri lifting the trophy alongside the connection “Stop crying your bosom out”.
City past took the pb connected 19 minutes, aft a lengthy VAR check deemed Erling Haaland to person been onside from Josko Gvardiol‘s sound down.
Kylian Mbappe went connected to level successful fortuitous fashion, with his shinned volley beating Ederson.
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GettyHaaland restored City’s pb from the punishment spot aft substitute Phil Foden was brought down successful the box.
But City aged lad Brahim Diaz equalised successful the 86th minute, earlier Jude Bellingham broke location fans’ hearts with a stoppage clip winner, with some goals a effect of gaffes from the hosts.
Speaking aft the game, Pep said: “Many times it hap this season. I cognize the prime of Real Madrid. We started the crippled truly good successful the archetypal 10 minutes and took it to them.
“In the 2nd fractional we tried to onslaught excessively quickly.
“Sometimes it is not the champion show compared to the ones we had successful the past 3 seasons but it happens due to the fact that they [Real Madrid] are an exceptional team.
“It happens galore times this season. We gave away what we had.”
Asked if the lapses were a effect of thing mental, helium added: “Bad decisions, that’s all.”
A distraught John Stones struggled to explicate the illness afterwards.
He told Prime Video: “A fewer games aft the Arsenal one, I don’t cognize however to enactment it into words consecutive away, it’s truthful earthy and frustrating for everyone.
“We were successful the crippled until truthful precocious and past it’s 2 situations that hap and we concede. It’s frustrating arsenic a defender to travel distant with that result.
“It’s a feeling of choler and frustration.
“We request to spot games retired better. The manager said we request to instrumentality accountability for what we bash connected the pitch, I deliberation we bash that. We request to measurement up erstwhile these atrocious moments happen.
Guardiola antecedently chopped his look aft a clash with Feyenoord“Today we had a large accidental to spell to the Bernabeu with a 2-1 lead. It’s not done. We person to enactment positive, which is hard now.
“As the manager says we request to look astatine ourselves and instrumentality accountability.
“We were close connected apical astatine the commencement of the crippled and we cognize Real person prime to travel retired successful the 2nd half. It is avoidable from america arsenic the eleven connected the pitch. We person to bash amended – it’s arsenic elemental arsenic that.
“We person to support a affirmative mentality and effort to enactment it right.”
City volition look Real Madrid again successful the 2nd limb adjacent Wednesday.
In the meantime, they volition big Newcastle successful the Premier League this Saturday.
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