Pep Guardiola set for touchline ban as he fumes over refereeing decision

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A fuming Pep Guardiola is facing a two-game touchline ban after being booked for the sixth time this season as Manchester City eased past Newcastle into the FA Cup quarter-finals.The Spaniard confronted fourth official Lewis Smith on the touchline at St James’ Park after Kieran Trippier had felled Jeremy Doku, prompting referee Sam Barrott to act, and will now have to sit out the Premier League fixture with West Ham and the club’s last-eight clash.That proved the only downside for Guardiola on a night when a team featuring 10 changes from the midweek draw with Nottingham Forest won 3-1 at a canter.

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00:04And I will defend my team, and I tell you something, we have all the records in this country, all

00:10of them, despite everything, we have all the records, and we have the records of managing more yellow cars, so

00:17always I wanted this record and now I have it.

00:20Two games banned now, because it's the second incident, and now we go on holidays the next two days.

00:26Oh my God, there are things that are still after 10 years I cannot understand. Review, review the action, review

00:34the action.

00:34Of course I'm going to defend Doku and all my teams.

00:38This is the best game we have played against Newcastle here in our period together in 10 years.

00:43An FA Cup and a difficult one, so really, really pleased how we behaved, how we played, defensively, offensively, in

00:51the concentration and top.

00:54So eight times in a row in the quarterfinals, the FA Cup, that means how good this organization is.

00:59This.

01:00This.

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