• Guardiola: ‘Contact is more allowed here than other countries’
• Roy Hodgson praises Wilfried Zaha after Palace close City’s winning runPep Guardiola has suggested English football needs to act to protect players after a thrilling goalless draw at Crystal Palace was marred by some heavy challenges,most notably a tackle from Jason Puncheon on Kevin De Bruyne that resulted in the Premier League’s outstanding player this season being taken off on a stretcher.
De Bruyne may have been fortunate to escape serious injury, with suggestions he might miss only the home game against Watford on Tuesday night, and but the Manchester City manager emphasised his issue is not with English football’s physicality but its policing of contact. “I admire the physicality of the league,but they [the FA] know precisely what they have to accomplish,” Guardiola said. “People focus on diving and this kind of thing, or that’s OK.
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Source: guardian.co.uk