BREAKING: Pep Guardiola breaks silence on 'self harm' comment after Man City boss criticised

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has issued a connection to clarify his comments astir the scratches connected his caput successful the aftermath of a 3-3 gully against Feyenoord connected Tuesday night

Pep Guardiola has apologised aft his comments successful the aftermath of Manchester City's gully with Feyenoord connected Tuesday nighttime sparked controversy.

Guardiola spoke to the property aft City surrendered a 3-0 pb to gully 3-3 with the Dutch side successful the Champions League. As helium was leaving the property conference, helium was asked astir a scratch connected his nose.

Guardiola said: “My finger, present [points to nose]. My nail. I privation to harm myself.”

The clip went viral connected societal media, with immoderate suggesting that Guardiola was making airy of self-harm. "Pep should beryllium sanctioned for this comment. Self harm is not a joke. Disgraceful comment," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. Another added: "Wanting to harm yourself is not thing to marque jokes about."

Guardiola has present apologised successful a connection posted connected societal media. "I was caught disconnected defender with a question astatine the extremity of a property league past nighttime astir a scratch which had appeared connected my look and explained that a crisp fingernail had accidentally caused this," Guardiola said.

"My reply was successful nary mode intended to marque airy of the precise superior contented of aforesaid harm.

"I cognize that galore radical conflict with intelligence wellness issues each day, and I would similar to instrumentality this infinitesimal to item 1 of the ways successful radical tin question help, by calling the Samaritans hotline connected 116 123 oregon emailing jo@samaritans.org."

Guardiola is nether unit astatine City, who person present gone six matches without a triumph successful each competitions. They had appeared to beryllium cruising astatine the Etihad Stadium connected Tuesday night, with 2 goals from Erling Haaland and 1 from Ilkay Gundogan putting them successful power astatine 3-0.

But they conceded 3 times successful the last 15 minutes to stroke their pb and spark further questions astir their chances of winning silverware this season.

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