{"id":111383,"date":"2025-05-18T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T09:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111383\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T09:52:21","slug":"pep-guardiola-cuts-a-dejected-figure-as-manchester-city-boss-is-seen-for-the-first-time-since-dean-henderson-bust-up-following-fa-cup-final-defeat-as-miserable-stars-fly-home-from-wembley-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111383\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola cuts a dejected figure as Manchester City boss is seen for the first time since Dean Henderson bust-up following FA Cup final defeat – as miserable stars fly home from Wembley loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola<\/a> was among the Manchester City<\/a> stars who cut dejected figures upon their arrivals back in Manchester following their FA Cup final defeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

City – and Guardiola – will now go trophyless for the season after losing 1-0 against Crystal Palace<\/a> on Saturday afternoon at Wembley, having also surrendered their Premier League<\/a> title and exited all other cup competitions.<\/p>\n

Going into the game as favourites, City failed to break down a resolute Palace defence, led by an impressive Dean Henderson<\/a>, who made six saves in the game, including from Omar Marmoush’s penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guardiola was involved in a bust-up with Henderson<\/a> after the full-time whistle at the national stadium, seen approaching the England goalkeeper and an expert lip-reader has revealed the details of the exchange.<\/p>\n

Still, Guardiola credited Henderson and his team, and led his side back to Manchester in the late hours of Sunday night, as he was snapped arriving back in the City.<\/p>\n

The City team flew back home on the evening of the game as Crystal Palace players celebrated in the capital<\/a>, arriving back in Manchester just before 11pm before heading home.<\/p>\n

\"Pep <\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola (top right) cut a frustrated figure as he arrived back in Manchester with his City team after the FA Cup final<\/p>\n

\"Phil <\/p>\n

Phil Foden – who played 15 minutes at the end of the game – was seen driving home at around 11pm on Saturday<\/p>\n

\"Erling <\/p>\n

Erling Haaland was among the players to cut a glum figure as he headed for home after it was confirmed City would end the season trophyless<\/p>\n

Seen arriving on a coach, Guardiola was papped at the front of the vehicle as he sat alone with his eyes closed.<\/p>\n

The City entourage are understood to have flown from Luton on a Jet 2 budget charter before arriving late on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

After landing, the majority of players drove themselves home, including Phil Foden and Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n

Foden, who played the last 15 minutes of the game towards the end of what has been a difficult season for the England star, was seen driving away in his \u00a3200,000 Mercedes G Wagon.<\/p>\n

The midfielder cut a tired figure as he wheeled away in the vehicle, which has light blue seats as a tribute to City.<\/p>\n

Also among the players to depart was Erling Haaland, who has just returned from injury and drew a blank in the final.<\/p>\n

City’s top scorer drew headlines when he passed on a penalty in the first half, having been his side’s regular penalty taker this season despite scoring just four of his seven efforts.<\/p>\n

Omar Marmoush saw his spot kick saved by Henderson – the hero of the day – and his side failed to breach a resolute Palace defence.<\/p>\n

\"Haaland <\/p>\n

Haaland raised eyebrows when he passed up the opportunity to take a penalty in the game<\/p>\n

\"Guardiola, <\/p>\n

Guardiola, meanwhile, was involved in a confrontation with Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson<\/p>\n


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Haaland pulled away from Manchester Airport alongside the rest of his team, driving his \u00a3250,000 Maybach but trying to stay out of view.<\/p>\n

The forward pulled down his sun visor – despite it being pitch black –\u00a0 and appeared glum as he headed for home.<\/p>\n

But most of the eyes were on Guardiola, whose nightmare season came to a disappointing conclusion, leaving him food for thought over the summer and for what remains of this campaign.<\/p>\n

At full time, the Spaniard confronted Henderson, leading to some fans theorising that the City boss was speaking about the potential red card incident. Expert lip-reader Jeremy Freeman, though, has now revealed the truth about what was really said in the exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guardiola approached the England goalkeeper as he was celebrating and said: ‘You didn’t deserve that. Disgrace.’<\/p>\n

Henderson replied: ‘You still had your 10 minutes,’ in reference to the 10 minutes of additional time at the end of the game.<\/p>\n

Henderson said ’10 minutes’ three times, while Guardiola also said: ‘It’s not fair play. You should not – it’s not fair.’<\/p>\n

He was eventually pulled away from Henderson by Crystal Palace reserve goalkeeper Matt Turner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola was among the Manchester City stars who cut dejected figures upon their arrivals back in Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1925,92,50154,393,1103,97,94,4884,2465,886,1037,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-111383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crystal-palace","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-dean-henderson","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-erling-haaland","14":"tag-fa-cup","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-manchester","18":"tag-manchester-city","19":"tag-pep-guardiola","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114528226521512818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}