{"id":423956,"date":"2026-02-13T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:25:08","slug":"rodri-manchester-city-midfielder-charged-with-misconduct-over-referee-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423956\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodri: Manchester City midfielder charged with misconduct over referee comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City had led 2-0 at half-time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> Stadium on 1 February and looked set to clinch three points until Solanke&#8217;s controversial 53rd-minute strike gave the home side hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then pulled Spurs level with 20 minutes left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his post-match interview, Rodri said Solanke&#8217;s first goal had potentially been a turning point in the outcome of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the first goal they score, maybe [if] they don&#8217;t score this goal we win the game,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then alleged City had regularly fallen victim to poor decisions by officials in this campaign, where they are currently second in the Premier League table, four points behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one game and another game and another game &#8211; and it&#8217;s not possible,&#8221; added Rodri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly, I never speak about referees, I respect their job massively. But they have to pay attention to these things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He (Solanke) kicked the leg, it&#8217;s so clear&#8230; It&#8217;s two, three games in a row and I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City had led 2-0 at half-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 1 February and looked set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}