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Man City boss Guardiola raps Klopp: It was a mistake - ACCEPT IT

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has laid out his thoughts on the VAR controversy from last weekend.

Guardiola was asked about the Tottenham vs. Liverpool game, where VAR wrongly disallowed a Luis Diaz goal for offside.

While the Spaniard had sympathy for opposite number Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, he stated that the Reds must accept that mistake and move on.

"I said before the game in the Champions League, so it's done. It was a mistake, accept it," he told reporters.

"It's always difficult, humans can make mistakes but the machines have to do it - the VAR is there to reduce that (mistake).

"All the humans make the mistakes, we do.

"At the end, the machines had been (introduced) for human beings so it's a mistake, hopefully it's finished here, getting better and improve (from) that.

"The Premier League or people from VAR will improve at that to avoid and the reason it's there is for a fair game.

"The VAR was implemented to make our game more right, hopefully will be better in the future."

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