Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola did not want to blame Diogo Dalot's red-card escape for the 2-0 defeat at Manchester United on Saturday. It believes that too much stock has been placed on the slow motion replay. The VAR is damned if they do use slow motion replays, and damned if they do not. Yet if this challenge happened in a Champions League game then Uefa would expect Taylor to produce a red card. It shows the marked difference between how the Premier League views serious foul-play challenges compared to the rest of Europe.

Source: BBC January 19, 2026 13:35 UTC