{"id":886652,"date":"2026-09-10T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886652\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:44:16","slug":"rosario-grabbed-my-bottom-during-manchester-citys-win-at-porto-claims-haaland-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886652\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosario \u2018grabbed my bottom\u2019 during Manchester City\u2019s win at Porto, claims Haaland | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erling Haaland has claimed Pablo Rosario \u201cgrabbed my bottom\u201d during Manchester City\u2019s 2-0 win at Porto<\/a> on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the 92nd minute, with Haaland having scored City\u2019s goals. The forward and midfielder grappled, went to ground and were booked after being separated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really keen on a hat-trick and it seemed like he was very eager to stop me from getting it,\u201d Haaland told Norway\u2019s TV 2. \u201cIt was a little interesting, that \u2013 you\u2019ll be seeing a picture where he\u2019s grabbing my bottom. It\u2019ll be interesting to see that picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flashpoint followed one as half-time neared in a niggly encounter. After Marc Gu\u00e9hi and Gabriel Veiga had a coming together that left the latter with a head injury, tempers frayed. When the teams walked off for the interval a bust-up occurred involving players and staff near the tunnel.<\/p>\n

Images showed R\u00faben Dias placing a hand on what appeared to be Francesco Farioli, the Porto<\/a> head coach. Uefa will wait for the match report of the referee, Szymon Marciniak, and its delegate, St\u00e9phanie Ford, before deciding whether to bring any action against the defender or City.<\/p>\n

Haaland\u2019s 47th-minute opener was a header and the No 9 revealed he had been working on the skill recently with his dad, Alf Inge, a former City player.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo days ago I was practising headers with my dad in the garden,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve worked a lot on my heading. I\u2019ve improved it massively and it\u2019s become a strength of my game. I think a lot of it comes down to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haaland concurred with his manager, Enzo Maresca<\/a>, that he may need a break soon. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to get any rest in this business,\u201d the 26-year-old said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLike during the international break, we play four games in 10 or 11 days, so it\u2019s not easy. But you have to try to squeeze in a few days here and there and give your mind a bit of a break.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland has claimed Pablo Rosario \u201cgrabbed my bottom\u201d during Manchester City\u2019s 2-0 win at Porto on Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-886652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886652","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=886652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}