As per Diario AS<\/a>, Guardiola gave his thoughts on the match. He admitted that his side were nowhere near their best up until the opening goal from Rodrygo in the 28th minute.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you score the goal, you find the way you have to play. Until the goal, we weren\u2019t controlling the game, we weren\u2019t being aggressive. They hurt us a lot in attack, but with the goal everything changed. I think it\u2019s a good lesson for the future to compete like this in the next phases.\u201d<\/p>\n Guardiola was asked for his assessment of Xabi Alonso\u2019s Real Madrid side.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have many casualties. In the first half they were much better. Obviously with the goal and the penalty we calmed down. Then, when they put Endrick in, Vinicius open, a lot of people in the box\u2026 The question is to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n He also spoke on Rodrygo, whom he spoke to in the aftermath of the full time whistle.<\/p>\n \u201c(I told him) how good it is. That boy is a player of another level. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s back from injury. He\u2019s very, very good.\u201d<\/p>\n Guardiola also commented on the performance of referee Clement Turpin. He believed that Man City\u2019s penalty was clear, while he expressed that Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger was fortunate not to be shown a second yellow card for a late foul on Savinho.<\/p>\n \u201cThe penalty was very clear, and Rudiger deserved a second yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola heaps praise on Real Madrid star – and claims another should have been sent off<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City emerged victorious from the Bernabeu on Wednesday, with Real Madrid defeated 2-1 at the hands of the Premier League…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/real-madrid-cf-v-manchester-city-uefa-champions-league-2025-26-league-phase-md6-min.jpg\")
Guardiola: Antonio Rudiger should have been sent off<\/h2>\n