Arsene Wenger may face a charge from the FA for his comments on Raheem Sterling and referee Michael Oliver.
Wenger claimed City will be unstoppable if they receive similar decisions to those that allowed Sergio Agüero’s penalty and Gabriel Jesus’s goal in Arsenal’s defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
“I believe it was no penalty. We know that Raheem Sterling dives well, he does that very well,” he said. “And the third goal was offside. I am very upset because at 2-1 we were in the game. The third goal was the killer and it is not by coincidence that mistakes always go for the home team, as we know.
“It is unfortunate that the game finished the way it finished. I am disappointed. You can accept it if City win in a normal way, they are a good side, but this is unacceptable. Last season we lost two offside goals and it has happened again.”
Pep Guardiola brushed off the comments.
“No, we won,” said Guardiola. “We won in the best way and we deserved [to win] by far. The chances we created and the few chances we conceded. They tell me it was offside and I don’t like to win in that way, so it’s like this, but sometimes Arsenal win in Burnley 1-0 with a hand, so sometimes it is like this. The way we like to play, we did it really well.”