In the second round of the Champions League, Manchester City was tied by Monaco's penalty 2-2 away. According to the Guardian, Guardiola refused to talk about the last-minute penalty in an interview after the game: "I have nothing to say about the Spanish referee." The referee of this game was the Spanish Whistle Manzano.
Guardiola commented on the game in an interview: "We played a good game, but the football game, and the results determine everything. If we analyze the game process, we have done a lot of things very well. We are gradually getting better, we have really created many opportunities, Foden performed particularly well in the first half, and many players also played very well, and we made almost no mistakes in defense. The opponents defended deeply and tightly, which is completely different from Monaco's style of playing in Ligue 1, but we still played very well. When the game is close, we have to defend well and we ended up with a point."