Pep Guardiola regrets Nathan Redmond blast after Manchester City’s dramatic win over Southampton
City boss has compared the incident to the dressing down in gave in the centre circle to Bayern Munich to Joshua Kimmich
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PEP GUARDIOLA regrets his blast at Nathan Redmond and admits he just can't control himself.
The Manchester City boss tore into Southampton winger Redmond - despite Guardiola's team grabbing a 96th-minute winner.
The FA have asked Guardiola to explain his bizarre rant.
But Redmond insists Guardiola was "intense and aggressive" - but did not call him a 'w****r'.
When asked if he regretted it, Guardiola said: "Yes. I did it in Munich, with my old player Joshua Kimmich, I did the same in Dortmund and had regret there after the game and the same now.
"I cannot control myself. Hopefully I will improve. What I said is what I said and what Nathan said in his statement.
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"I admire him as a player and say thank you for his comments but if the FA want my statement again I am able to explain whatever they want. If they don’t believe me I don’t know what we’re doing here.
"If I'm explaining what happened and the people don't believe me then let's cancel our press conferences and just play the games. If they want to listen to me then I will do it. It's not a problem.
Guardiola does not believe that he was being direspectful by collaring the one-cap England man.
He added: "We didn't win clearly because it's so complicated when 10 players defend in the box.
"They believe that is the best way. I've faced this kind of team a lot in my career and I have to think how to beat them.
";I understand completely to attack with the set pieces. I said to Nathan you have to attack because you have the quality to do that.
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"They have amazing players. But if they decide to play like this I am not the right guy to say if this is right or not.
"My emotion was there because of how I celebrated, scored the goal after 96 minutes. I said the same to Romeu and Lemina and Redmond."