Repeating draw 'fair' choice says Guardiola about UEFA's UCL blunder

UEFA was forced to declare the Champions League draw void after a series of mistakes were made during the process on Monday morning.

Manchester United had been handed a mouth-watering last-16 tie against Paris St Germain, but only after being erroneously paired with Villarreal in the first instance and then mistakenly left off the list of possible opponents to face Atletico Madrid.

After clubs sought clarification from the European governing body on what had happened, UEFA announced the ties would be redrawn at 2pm on Monday.

And speaking in his press conference, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said the decision to declare the draw void was correct.

"It's going to happen again and I think it's fair," he said. "It was a mistake. This kind of thing sometimes happens, especially in football with players and managers and sometimes with UEFA too...

"I think it's fair. It's better to repeat it than have suspicion. All of the opponents are tough. People say now we face this opponent, one is better than another one but all of them at this stage are difficult."

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