{"id":955949,"date":"2026-05-13T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:51:12","slug":"var-is-flip-of-coin-says-manchester-city-boss-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955949\/","title":{"rendered":"VAR is ‘flip of coin’, says Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Guardiola says it is up to the players to take VAR out of the equation.<\/p>\n

“When this happens it is because we have to do better, not the referees or VAR,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“I never trust anything since I arrived a long time ago. Always I learned you have to do it better, do it better, be in a position to do it better because you blame yourself with what you have to do, because (VAR) is a flip of a coin.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola was speaking before Wednesday’s meeting with Palace, which they need to win to cut Arsenal<\/a>‘s lead at the top of the table to two points.<\/p>\n

That would still leave Arsenal<\/a> needing to drop points in their remaining two games – against relegated Burnley<\/a> and Palace – for City to have any chance of winning the Premier League title.<\/p>\n

“Of course it is not in our hands in the Premier League. Always I say to the players, ‘Do it, do it, do it better’,” Guardiola added.<\/p>\n

“The only thing we can do is do it better, that is only in your control.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola’s side will play in their third FA Cup final in three seasons when they meet Chelsea<\/a> at Wembley on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Guardiola says it is up to the players to take VAR out of the equation. “When this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116564531025181940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}