UEFA President Alexander Čeferin apologized for the mistake during the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League.
“The draw of course was a failure for UEFA. We depend on technology, and perhaps we should not rely on it too much. UEFA apologizes to everyone. There were some technological errors.
UEFA contacted the software provider and we decided to redo the draw because we did not know exactly when the error occurred. Our decision was transparent,” said Čeferin.
During the draw, Manchester United had been paired with Villarreal, but the teams were in the same group in the group stage. Later, because of this mistake, UEFA held the draw one more time.
