After the defeat to Arsenal, Man City coach Pep Guardiola said that too many minutes of injury time could affect the matches.

Coach Pep Guardiola thinks the new injury time rule is somewhat unreasonable – Photo: GETTY

Late on 6-8, Man City lost to Arsenal in the English Super Cup match. It was a match where coach Pep Guardiola ‘s army  took the lead from the 77th minute. But Leandro Trossard’s late goal in the 90+11 minute helped Arsenal to equalize.

The score 1-1 forced the match into a penalty shootout. Here, Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri failed to make Man City lose 1-4.

Earlier, the Premier League organizers announced that the 2023-2024 season will apply a new law on how injury time is calculated. Accordingly, the number of minutes of injury time will add to the time when the ball is dead because of a goal, a fixed situation, an injury, etc.

This method has been applied in the 2022 World Cup. And it makes the number of extra minutes much higher than before. In the last English Super Cup match , the referees announced the number of extra time in the second half up to 8 minutes.

In fact, the match lasted even longer because of the pause after a strong collision between Thomas Partey (Arsenal) and Kyle Walker ( Man City ). It was this extended injury time that partly helped Arsenal equalize and put the match into a series of “gunfights”.

Pep Guardiola: ‘We’re still playing the next morning’

Sharing with Marca , coach Pep Guardiola was quite harsh. He said: “From now on, matches with goals will go on for a long time. For example, a match with a score of 4-3, and the referees add 30-45 seconds to those 7 goals, then 9 goals. next morning you’ll see we’re still playing.”

He is also not satisfied with the fact that the organizers changed the law to calculate the number of extra minutes without consulting the coach and the player. And the only way Pep Guardiola can react is to learn to accept it.

With this defeat, Pep Guardiola certainly cannot reproduce the historic 6th record he did with Barcelona in 2009.

Last season, he helped Man City win the treble including the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup. After the defeat in the English Super Cup, Pep and his students still have the opportunity to win two more titles this year, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

On the other side of the line, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said he felt very happy about this victory. He said: “I am extremely happy and proud. At the same time I am relieved to have won. There is nothing better than winning at Wembley against a strong opponent and having fans who can prove it. ants”.