Man City Didn't Disrespect UEFA var submit.

Guardiola: Man City Didn't Disrespect UEFA var submit.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola criticises his heavily rotated side for "forgetting to attack" 

Pep Guardiola has rejected suggestions by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin that he disrespected European football's governing body by not attending this week's VAR summit.

Video assistants will be used to help officiate on contentious decisions during the last-16 ties in the Champions League.

At a summit in Frankfurt on Monday, only head coaches from Juventus, Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain, Roma and Schalke – who face City in the opening knockout round - were present.

The Premier League champions were among the teams to send another member of staff, however, with assistant coach Brian Kidd in attendance, but this was not deemed acceptable by Ceferin.

"For me it's not only a lack of respect for [UEFA's chief refereeing officer] Roberto Rosetti's team and the UEFA organisation, but the influence of coaches is huge and if they complain about being refereed they should at least come and see what the experts say about the use of VAR," Ceferin said.

"Now they do not have any excuses, especially the ones that did not even come."