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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was in the stands for the defeat to Wolves as he served a touchline ban after picking up three yellow cards.

Pep Guardiola will try to control his emotions on the touchline after falling victim to the Premier League’s crackdown on managerial behavior by receiving three yellow cards this season.

The Catalan was handed a touchline ban for Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat to Wolves at Molineux and watched the game from the front row of the Billy Wright Stand, although he was allowed in the dressing room before and after the game.

Guardiola has been shown a yellow card against Burnley, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle this season, has been shown a yellow card in three of the six domestic matches in which he has been on the bench this season, has missed two matches during recovery. surgery.

The Premier League has announced a crackdown on the behavior of its managers and backroom staff at the start of the season.There should now be an automatic yellow card if more than one coach enters the technical area, and attacks on referees and opponents are also monitored more closely than before.

Three yellow cards will result in a coaching ban and Guardiola felt the force of the new rule at Wolves, becoming only the second Premier League manager to receive three bookings after Fulham manager Marco Silva.

Guardiola said the new regulations were explained to managers at the start of the season and he will try to adapt to them.

“That’s the new rule. They explained to us that sometimes we’re not right with them,” he said.”They’re the boss, they make the rules and we have to accept them. We’re not going to change them, right? Are they going to change the rules because I’m reserved? No, I have to adapt to them.” those things.” them, we know each other quite well. They know me but I know them, that’s for sure.”

Guardiola insists his players avoiding disciplinary problems is more important than him, saying after last week’s win over Forest that ‘he He may be given a warning, but Rodri cannot afford to be sent off

Although the Catalan will now try to control his emotions on the touchline, he will continue to speak out and vent revealed that it is a trait that has gotten him into trouble since his days with Barcelona.

“It’s worse that players don’t play than me. It’s not a big issue. It’s not a problem, they made the rules,” he said.

“When I was a player at Barcelona I was the least physical player ever but maybe I was one of the most booked players in Barcelona. Always because I talk and talk and talk. Now as a manager it is the same.

“I say something if I think it’s an injustice or something I don’t like… I have to control it. When you see a few things you don’t like then I will say. I’d like to control [myself], I will try to do it, but I cannot assure you 100 per cent that I will control it.”

Guardiola had joked earlier that the view from the stands at Molineux had been excellent, but he has no plans to make it a regular viewing point, despite enjoying the company of Manel Estiarte and Txiki Begiristain, and he knows he’s now treading on egg shells with a two-game ban a possibility next time.

“I like to be with the players, the smell of the grass. Txiki and Manel were so nice but I prefer to be down there. Next time it’s a two-game ban,” he said.