{"id":360194,"date":"2026-03-23T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:49:08","slug":"i-am-human-pep-guardiola-defends-his-celebrations-as-man-city-win-carabao-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360194\/","title":{"rendered":"I am human \u2013 Pep Guardiola defends his celebrations as Man City win Carabao Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola said \u201cI am a human being\u201d as he defended his wild celebrations in Manchester City\u2019s 2-0 Carabao Cup final victory against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola channelled his inner Jose Mourinho as he sprinted along the Wembley touchline before kicking an advertising board following Nico O\u2019Reilly\u2019s quickfire second-half brace.<\/p>\n<p>Riccardo Calafiori hit a post, and Gabriel Jesus struck the crossbar, as Arsenal went in search of a response but City saw out the win as Guardiola landed the 19th trophy of his remarkable 10-season City tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted another yellow card and that is why I did it,\u201d joked Guardiola when quizzed about his celebration. \u201cThat was the target.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4weiDTi1Hq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4weiDTi1Hq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yn4YyknVO7\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/yn4YyknVO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carabao Cup (@Carabao_Cup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carabao_Cup\/status\/2035778895199236349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, if I can\u2019t celebrate in the moment against a team like Arsenal, and the way we were playing\u2026 My emotions are related to the way we are playing. I react when it is OK, we scored a goal, and emotions came out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not artificially intelligent, I am a human being, and I want to celebrate. It was not showing disrespect to Arsenal or for the other fans, I just celebrated with my people. And when I feel it, I express it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola became the first manager in history to win the Carabao Cup five times, and, despite question marks over his City future, he indicated he has no desire to walk away at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so difficult to win titles, it doesn\u2019t matter if it is the Premier League or the Champions League, but to win against that team made the title special,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside Barcelona and Bayern Munich as well, they are the best team in Europe. And what we have done by winning 19 titles in 10 years in the modern era, in England, in Europe, it is hat\u2019s off to the whole organisation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"410\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/i-am-human-pep-guardiola-defends-his-celebrations-as-man-city-win-carabao-cup.jpg\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola\" data-title=\"Arsenal v Manchester City \u2013 Carabao Cup \u2013 Final \u2013 Wembley\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Ben Whitley\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"\/>Pep Guardiola won the Carabao Cup again (Ben Whitley\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have the joy to compete. Today was a real challenge, nobody gave us anything. I said to the players: \u2018Today, we are going to see what our level is\u2019. They are the best so far, no doubt about that, so let\u2019s prove ourselves and in the second half, I could not believe we could do it against Arsenal, and we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City are nine points behind the Gunners in the race for the Premier League title. However, Guardiola\u2019s side have a game in hand, and host Arteta\u2019s men at the Etihad next month.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal will also be wounded by City derailing their outside chance of an unprecedented quadruple.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola continued: \u201cI would like to be nine points in front of Arsenal, and I don\u2019t know if I would change the trophy for the nine points to fight for the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a different competition, and they will be more controlled when they come to the Etihad. Maybe for that game it will help us, but the Premier League is in their hands. Is that team going to drop points? We will try to win our games and then see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola said \u201cI am a human being\u201d as he defended his wild celebrations in Manchester City\u2019s 2-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-360194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}