‘He’s got a point’, ‘no advantage’ – Man City fans react to Pep Guardiola Claims on Five Substitutions Rule

Pep Guardiola has said the new Premier League rules to allow five substitutions instead of three will not make a difference.

The Premier League announced on March 31st that the clubs had voted in favour of changing the substitution rules from three to five from the start of next season, with these allowed to take place over three occasions in the match (including half-time) and with nine substitutes being named on the bench.

Arguments have been put forward that this rule will only serve to give the elite Premier League clubs more of an advantage, but Guardiola refuted this, saying:

“Why? It doesn’t give us an unfair advantage (to City, as some suggest), it’s the same for everyone,” the Catalan said in his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon.

“We can rotate players, change tactics. We have caught up with the rest of the world with this. We (City) don’t play 12 versus 11.

“It’s healthy for the players when they play this amount of games, with less players. When you can make more subs, you can rotate more players that deserve to play.”

These Guardiola’s comments were shared on Twitter by City Xtra and it attracted plenty of attention from the club’s supporters.

“He’s got a point… he barely makes 3.”
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“To be fair, he doesn’t bother using any subs anyway so he’s got a point.”
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“He’s not gonna make a substitution is he.”
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“He literally telling us it doesn’t make a difference. Man’s still gonna make 1 sub every month if we’re lucky.”
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“He barely makes three subs yet alone 5, would help if these reporters actually done some research before asking questions..”
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“We don’t make subs anyway so no advantage.”
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“I wish they would have done the 5 substitution but the 4th and 5th should be youngster 21 and under to have the youngsters grow.”
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