{"id":639741,"date":"2026-05-13T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639741\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:36:10","slug":"var-is-flip-of-coin-says-manchester-city-boss-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639741\/","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":639742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-639741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}