Gary Neville explains Declan Rice Wembley boos - 'Happening up and down the country'

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Gary Neville has outlined why he wants change to be made after watching Sunday's Carabao Cup's final between Manchester City and Arsenal . Pep Guardiola's men won the first trophy of the season thanks to Nico O'Reilly's brace in the second half.

However, in the early stages of the game, City supporters started jeering as Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice readied himself to deliver a throw-in towards the opposition box. Neville was providing commentary on the match and suggested that the jeers were down to the time it took Arsenal to execute the throw-in.

The Manchester United icon seized the moment to deliver a statement demanding that reform be introduced to curtail the duration permitted for set-pieces.

"There are boos from the City fans, I think something is going to have to change," Neville said whilst on commentary for Sky Sports .

"Not because of Arsenal, this is happening up and down the country, but the amount of time being taken on set-pieces is too much." Long throw-ins and corners continued to take plenty of time throughout the final.

The Gunners had the better of the first half with Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka forcing goalkeeper James Trafford into three superb saves. City grew into the contest and frustrated their Premier League title rivals before taking the lead.

A mistake from Kepa Arrizabalaga allowed O'Reilly to head them into the lead from close range, before he roamed into the Arsenal penalty area unmarked to double his tally.

The talking point around the final was Kepa's mistake, with some suggesting that Mikel Arteta should have started first-choice goalkeeper David Raya for the final. However, Arteta doubled down on his selection of Kepa.

"I have to do what I feel is right, which is honest and which is fair and I think we have understanding with Kepa, he's played all competition and I think it would have been very, very unfair for him and for the team to do something different," he said.

He added: "I can never promise a player to play certain competitions because at the end they have to earn it and they have to do enough like any other position to do that.

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"We are guided by what we've seen and what he's done, what he's done in the competition, and he helped us to go all the way through here.

"I believe it's the right thing to do and that's it. Errors are part of football and today it happened unfortunately in a crucial moment."