Liverpool 1-0 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola says crowd threw coins at him

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Guardiola and the City players situation Anthony Taylor

Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola said members of the Anfield assemblage threw coins astatine him during his side's 1-0 Premier League decision astatine Liverpool.

Guardiola said the objects were thrown successful his absorption aft Phil Foden had a extremity disallowed by VAR arsenic City's unbeaten commencement to the play ended.

"The assemblage tried but they didn't interaction me," Guardiola told BBC Radio 5 Live. "Maybe adjacent clip they volition beryllium better."

Liverpool, meanwhile, condemned "vile" chanting from the distant end.

"We are profoundly disappointed to perceive vile chants relating to shot stadium tragedies from the distant conception during today's crippled astatine Anfield. The concourse successful the distant conception was besides vandalised with graffiti of a akin nature," the nine said successful a statement.

"We cognize the interaction specified behaviour has connected the families, survivors and each those associated with specified disasters.

"We are moving with the applicable authorities and we volition besides enactment with Manchester City successful bid to bash our utmost to guarantee these chants are eradicated from shot altogether."

Guardiola was furious that Foden's second-half extremity - which would person enactment his broadside up - was ruled retired by the video adjunct referee for Erling Haaland's foul connected Fabinho.

Responding to proceeding of the coin throwing, Liverpool brag Jurgen Klopp said: "Oh, horrible. I americium sorry. I apologise for that. I had nary thought astir it. It ne'er should happen, never."

Liverpool took each 3 points aft Mohamed Salah bushed City keeper Ederson with a composed decorativeness 14 minutes from time.

As tempers boiled implicit successful the 2nd half, Klopp was sent disconnected by referee Anthony Taylor pursuing the German's vehement protests against a situation connected Salah.

"We played a truly bully crippled but this is simply a crippled wherever determination are truly good margins and the mistakes are punished," added Guardiola.

"We made a mistake and we cannot concede and that's wherefore we mislaid the game.

"We played to bushed Liverpool today, decidedly we played for that. After 1-0 the assemblage shouted but we shouted much connected the pitch.

"The referee played on, played on, played on, determination were a 1000 cardinal fouls similar this and this 1 is due to the fact that we scored a goal. So they disallowed due to the fact that we scored a goal, different it would not person been disallowed."

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