{"id":411471,"date":"2026-01-14T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:51:08","slug":"pep-rants-at-var-over-disallowed-semenyo-goal-for-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411471\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep rants at VAR over disallowed Semenyo goal for Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola said he expects an explanation from referees’ chief Howard Webb during a post-match rant after Antoine Semenyo<\/a>‘s disallowed goal during a Manchester City<\/a> win over Newcastle United<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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But despite the result, Guardiola was left frustrated by a VAR review which lasted nearly six minutes before eventually ruling out what would have been Semenyo’s second goal of the night.<\/p>\n

The City boss said he was particularly annoyed given the video referee failed to award Phil Foden<\/a> a penalty following a late challenge from Fabian Sch\u00e4r<\/a> in the 2-1 defeat at Newcastle in November.<\/p>\n

The Key Match Incidents Panel later ruled it was a mistake not to give the spot kick to Foden.<\/p>\n

“I will say it now, I would like to know why VAR in the Premier League<\/a> game at Newcastle when we lost 2-1, it was an insane penalty on Schar for Phil Foden and not even a consideration,” said Guardiola.<\/p>\n

“Today four people were not able to decide because the line was, I don’t know, but the second goal that Newcastle scored the line was perfect. I’m not suspicious of that in 10 years. I didn’t say anything when we lost 2-1 here.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty sure Howard Webb is going to come in tomorrow to give an explanation of that.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola also raised an incident in May’s FA Cup final defeat to Crystal Palace<\/a> when goalkeeper Dean Henderson<\/a> appeared to knock the ball away from Erling Haaland<\/a> with his hand outside the penalty area.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t say anything in the FA Cup final against Crystal Palace when it was a red card after 30 minutes for Henderson,” he said. “Did I say anything? No. It’s OK. It’s fine.<\/p>\n

“In 10 years when we lost semifinals in big competitions, I didn’t say anything. On the touchline, sometimes. But here [the news conference] nothing.”<\/p>\n

The second leg will be on Feb. 4 at the Etihad Stadium, with the winner facing either Chelsea<\/a> or Arsenal<\/a> in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola said he expects an explanation from referees’ chief Howard Webb during a post-match rant after Antoine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-411471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}