Guardiola, circled, is alleged to have communicated with Planchart, in the purple jacket, about the substitution of Silva for Aguero BT SportPep Guardiola is facing a three-match touchline ban in the Champions League after Uefa accused him of two separate offences: making abusive comments to a referee, then defying the official again by influencing a substition having been sent to the stands. Guardiola insisted he was not insulting when he shouted at the Spanish official, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, at half-time during Manchester City’s defeat by Liverpool on Tuesday. Guardiola, left, walked on to the pitch at half-time to complain but Uefa says that he insulted an official Nick Potts/PABut Uefa appeared to reject that claim yesterday when it charged him with using abusive language, and added a second charge for communicating with his bench from the stands, apparently to make the decision to bring Sergio Agüero on as a substitute. Antena 3, the Spanish television channel, last night said it had analysed footage of the comments…

Source: The Times April 11, 2018 16:00 UTC