Deliberately getting yourself booked to incur a suspension is one thing, doing so by conceding a direct free kick on the edge of our box when the scores are level is another altogether!
Asked whether De Bruyne had, in the vernacular, cleaned up the yellow with a barge on Feyenoord’s excellent captain Steven Berghuis, Guardiola simply said that if he had done he would have hoped the Belgian had done so further from goal. “It was a clear yellow card,” he said. “I would have preferred he made a foul away from goal, not [near] the box.”