Football fans rub salt into Pep Guardiola's wounds amid concerning facial injuries

Pep Guardiola saw his Manchester City broadside propulsion distant a three-goal pb against Feyenoord successful the Champions League and the Dutch fans took the accidental to adhd to his misery

Pep Guardiola's latest nightmare nighttime saw Feyenoord fans taunt him with LIVERPOOL songs.

Guardiola saw his Manchester City broadside throw distant a commanding 3-0 lead against the Eredivisie team. The reigning Premier League champions fell isolated successful the last 15 minutes to permission the Etihad Stadium stunned.

First Anis Hadj Moussa took vantage of a mistake by Josko Gvardiol to people Feyenoord's archetypal goal, earlier substitute Santiago Gimenez chested successful their 2nd with 8 minutes remaining.

They completed their stunning comeback erstwhile David Hancko pounced successful the 89th minute. Guardiola's broadside have present failed to triumph successful their past six games and the City brag was curiously left with respective cuts on his look aft the game.

To hitch further brackish into those wounds, the jubilant Feyenoord fans could beryllium heard singing Liverpool chants successful the distant end. First, they chanted ' Arne Slot La La La' successful designation of their erstwhile manager, who is present successful complaint of the Reds.

After Hancko equalised successful the dying moments of the game, the Feyenoord fans broke retired into a rendition of 'You’ll Never Walk Alone', a chant intimately linked to Liverpool. City look a daunting travel to Anfield connected Sunday having failed to triumph immoderate of their past six games.

Slot has been backed to adhd further symptom to Guardiola by Feyenoord brag Brian Priske. The Dane admitted helium hoped his predecessor was arrogant of Tuesday's show and tipped him to bash his ain 'dirty job' connected City.

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“I’m definite he’s [Slot] proud. As an ex-Feyenoord manager, I’m definite he’s pursuing [results], I cognize that. We’ve decidedly done everything we could to assistance him arsenic well. He had a monolithic interaction connected the nine implicit the past 3 years," Priske said. "He decidedly gave maine a bully commencement arsenic well, with a bully squad and Champions League [qualification]. So I’m truly blessed that, hopefully, we tin assistance him a bit, and helium needs to bash the soiled occupation astatine the weekend.

"If you are from Feyenoord Rotterdam, it is an unbelievable evening, 3-0 down distant from location against, for me, inactive the champion squad successful the world. Obviously you ever believe, but it was a hard game. The archetypal 25 minutes, they played accelerated football, we were not arsenic choky arsenic we wanted, ended up excessively low. At 3-0 down, you decidedly deliberation this is going to beryllium agelong night, pugnacious evening.

"But without immoderate tactical [changes], conscionable idiosyncratic quality, moments, gave america the draw. The players stayed successful the game, kept pushing and kept believing. I tin lone praise them."

Guardiola appeared post-match for his interviews looking somewhat battered and bruised aft his side's disastrous 2nd half, with noticeable cuts and marks connected his look and head.

Asked the crushed for the injuries, helium suggested that they came astir via a self-inflicted accident: “My finger, present [points to nose]. My nail. I privation to harm myself.”

On his side's show helium added: “Three episodes didn’t let america to win, what we needed. For many, galore reasons, not conscionable for the presumption of qualification and get the points to spell through. Other reasons.

“It’s what it is. So hard to swallow close now. The crippled was good. We scored three, we could person scored more, we bash everything but astatine the end, we springiness distant particularly the archetypal 1 and aft we are not unchangeable capable to bash it."

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