{"id":590942,"date":"2025-11-24T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590942\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:53:15","slug":"i-feel-embarrassed-and-ashamed-guardiola-apologises-to-cameraman-after-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590942\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I feel embarrassed and ashamed&#8217; &#8211; Guardiola apologises to cameraman after confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola defends Donnarumma after keeper\u2019s third booking of the seasonpublished at 13:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Man City v Bayer Leverkusen (Tue, 20:00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A frustrated Gianluigi Donnarumma picked up his third yellow card of the season during the defeat at Newcastle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was cautioned for protesting after Harvey Barnes appeared to shove him in the build-up to the winning goal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The City keeper was furious as VAR checked the incident, insisting he\u2019d been fouled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pep Guardiola backed his goalkeeper afterwards, insisting Donnarumma was right to stand his ground: \u201cHe has to defend his position. If he\u2019s booked, he\u2019s booked. James [Trafford] will play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The City boss added that he trusts his players\u2019 reading of the incident and suggested the contact was similar to challenges Donnarumma has faced in previous matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the frustration on the pitch and the booking tally stacking up, Guardiola was keen to shield his goalkeeper, describing him as mentally strong and fully entitled to challenge decisions he feels are wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gianluigi Donnarumma of Manchester City protests to referee Sam Barrott after Harvey Barnes of Newcastle United scores their side's second goal during the Premier League match between Newcastle United and Manchester City at St James' Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2a6f6b59-b218-4183-85c4-1e189e0b088a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardiola defends Donnarumma after keeper\u2019s third booking of the seasonpublished at 13:59 GMT 13:59 GMT Man City v&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-590942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590942","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=590942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}