Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has been handed a touchline ban for his club’s first Champions League fixture of next season, UEFA announced on Monday.
Guardiola was sent off during the second leg of City’s quarter-final against Liverpool in April.
UEFA charged him with two separate offences: making abusive comments to a referee and then influencing a substitution having been sent off.
The Spaniard invaded the pitch to confront referee Antonio Miguel Lahoz at half-time, after the Spanish official had ruled out Leroy Sane’s goal seconds earlier.
Guardiola insisted after the game that he had not insulted Lahoz, but said the referee “likes to be special.”
He has now been handed a two-match ban, but will only serve one within a one-year probationary period.
