Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says injury-time 'big brains' never consulted them

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Pep GuardiolaPep Guardiola besides criticised the caller injury-time rules earlier the game

Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola says "the large brains" ne'er consulted radical successful the crippled with the caller injury-time rules, aft his broadside conceded successful the 101st infinitesimal of the Community Shield.

English games volition person more wounded clip this season to accurately bespeak stoppages successful play.

"It's a question for large encephalon guys who determine these things," said Guardiola.

The Spaniard added: "It's a batch of games and each clip you adhd 8 oregon 10 minutes it's a… but listen, they ne'er consult our opinions, the radical successful satellite football, managers oregon players."

Football's lawmakers - the International Football Association Board (Ifab) - announced its privation to "create fairer conditions for some teams successful presumption of the magnitude of clip disposable successful a match" astatine the commencement of the year.

Eight minutes were added connected astatine Wembley, with City starring 1-0. But determination was a five-minute hold successful stoppage clip - portion Kyle Walker and Thomas Partey had attraction aft a clash of heads - which was past added connected astatine the end.

Many games successful the opening play of the EFL had akin amounts of wounded time.

Guardiola had spoken astir the contented successful the build-up to the Community Shield gathering too.

"Now, each crippled we're going to play for 100 minutes. Wasting time, from my constituent of view, it is not going to beryllium solved by extending 10 much minutes," helium said.

"It's much tiring for the players. It's excessively much."

Another caller regularisation also caused a disturbance with Arsenal successful the game.

Managers and coaches "must not confront, invade the idiosyncratic abstraction of, oregon marque carnal interaction with the lucifer officials".

And yellowish cards volition beryllium issued to players delaying the restart of play oregon not retreating the indispensable region astatine a free-kick.

Arsenal's Partey and City's Julian Alvarez were some booked for kicking the shot distant aft the whistle was blown for a free-kick, portion Arteta was shown a yellowish paper aft asking for Rodri to beryllium booked.

"We are going to get utilized to it," Arteta told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It's precise hard to alteration habits consecutive distant but that's the demands they are putting connected us. We are going to person to bid for it and beryllium acceptable for it because, if not, we volition beryllium playing without 11 players and a manager connected the touchline precise often."

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