{"id":3250,"date":"2026-05-12T22:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:59:35","slug":"var-is-flip-of-coin-says-manchester-city-boss-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"VAR is &#8216;flip of coin&#8217;, says Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Guardiola says it is up to the players to take VAR out of the equation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When this happens it is because we have to do better, not the referees or VAR,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guardiola was speaking before Wednesday&#8217;s meeting with Palace, which they need to win to cut Arsenal&#8217;s lead at the top of the table to two points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That would still leave Arsenal needing to drop points in their remaining two games &#8211; against relegated Burnley and Palace &#8211; for City to have any chance of winning the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Of course it is not in our hands in the Premier League. Always I say to the players, &#8216;Do it, do it, do it better&#8217;,&#8221; Guardiola added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only thing we can do is do it better, that is only in your control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guardiola&#8217;s side will play in their third FA Cup final in three seasons when they meet Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Guardiola says it is up to the players to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}