Pep Guardiola's words regarding Rodri's expulsion in Manchester City vs Nottingham Forrest

Manchester City achieved an important victory against Nottingham Forrest. The citizen team continues its great winning streak this season, and has won all its Premier League games. Now, with goals from Foden and Haaland, the club achieved an important victory against a difficult rival, but with the bad news that Rodri was sent off, something that would keep him away from the team for three games, missing the duel against Arsenal.

The unusual part of the match came in the second half, when Rodri, in a dispute at the beginning of the aggregate, confronted Morgan Gibbs-White. The argument reached the point where the Spanish midfielder lost his temper and ended up choking the Nottingham Forest player. It is a strange action for a footballer like Rodri, who has been characterized as a disciplined player and who rarely causes this type of problems.

The first quarter of an hour had not yet been reached and the leader had already sentenced the duel. They then took their foot off the accelerator, but maintained their dominance over Nottingham Forest. Those of Guardiola, who received a yellow card for protesting, do not accuse the losses of important men like De Bruyne or Bernardo Silva. Something that they will have to continue in the next matches, when they cannot count on Rodri.

What did Pep Guardiola say about Rodri's expulsion?

“I hope Rodri learns. He has to control himself and his emotions. They can get a yellow card for me, but not for Rodri. I do not play. You have to be careful. The referee changed the game. "I don't understand why the first action of the match wasn't a yellow card for them and our first action was, I don't understand," Pep Guardiola said at a press conference. Furthermore, Pep stressed that he always talks to his players about this, because he believes that it is one of the actions that they should always take into account, since some referees turn out to be very special and do not forgive anything.