Pep Guardiola sends clear message to groaning Man City fans during frustrating first-half in Brentford win

Pep Guardiola gestured at a pissed off Manchester Metropolis crowd to ‘relax’ throughout the first-half of a 1-0 win in opposition to Brentford.

The Premier League champions had been held to a goalless opening 45 minutes earlier than in the end seeing off a cussed Bees aspect on Tuesday night time.

Metropolis bossed possession and created quite a few probabilities however failed to interrupt the guests’ resistance till a slip from Brentford defender Kristoffer Ajer allowed Erling Haaland to attain on 71 minutes.

However earlier, having dropped factors in a 1-1 draw in opposition to Chelsea on Saturday, groans might be heard from the Etihad Stadium devoted as goalkeeper Ederson lingered on the ball.

It was not the primary time the house crowd had expressed their displeasure at a perceived lack of urgency from Guardiola’s males.

Selecting up on the complaints, the Metropolis boss turned to the group behind him and despatched a transparent message.

Talking on commentary for talkSPORT, Sam Matterface stated: “Guardiola turned spherical to the group, I’ve seen him do that a few occasions right here, and gestured as if to say, ‘Simply sit back, depart it, we’ll get there, simply relax’.

Seconds later, Bernardo Silva spurned Metropolis’s greatest probability of the first-half, and England legend Stuart Pearce stated it might have been speedy vindication for Guardiola.

Pearce stated: “Pep was telling the group to be affected person with Ederson. If that hit the again of the web, he would’ve been straight again at them to say, ‘I informed you so’.”

At half time, talkSPORT host Adrian Durham was eager to defend the Metropolis crowd, highlighting that dissenting voices had been balanced out by supportive followers.

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Durham stated: “There are frustrations among the many Metropolis followers.

“However to be honest to them there have been loads of factors in that first half the place they’ve received behind their gamers.”