'Give me another' - Pep Guardiola defiant after another Man City booking

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he was 'not yet artificial intelligence' after his celebrations for the second goal was deemed to have gone too far.

Pep Guardiola will not tone down his Manchester City celebrations after being booked for his reactions to Nico O'Reilly scoring in the Carabao Cup final. The Blues boss kicked an advertising board in delight after the first goal and then ran down the touchline to mark the second as City ran out 2-0 winners over Arsenal.

Leaving his technical area earned the City coach another yellow card in a season where he has already been given two bans - he will miss the FA Cup game against Liverpool next month as part of his latest suspension - but Guardiola said he was moved to such joy because of the way his players were performing. In disbelief at what City were doing to Arsenal, the manager got carried away and did not care about his punishment.

"I wanted another yellow card, that was the target," he said with heavy sarcasm. "If I cannot celebrate in the moment against that team with the way we are playing... the emotions are related to the way we are playing. Sometimes we have one action and score a goal and I do not react in that way. I react when it's yes, yes, yes - the emotions come out.

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"Come on, give me another yellow card but I will celebrate, I'm not yet artificial intelligence. I'm a human being and I can celebrate. I want to celebrate. It's not no respect for Arsenal or for their fans, I just celebrate with my people. I'm a human being with emotions and when I feel it I express it.

"It's still the joy to compete. Today was a real challenge. Nobody gave us anything and I said to the players today we are going to see ourselves, what is our level against the best team? What are we? We talked about the game we played against Arsenal at the beginning of the season and that was the challenge.

"The old ones and myself and the guys on the bench, it's like what we said after Madrid. They are the best so far, no doubt about that, ok let's prove. In general, last 10-15 minutes of the first half and the second half I could not believe we could do it against that Arsenal and we did it. That is nice for the sport."