UEFA assures that it carried out the Champions League draw again for transparency | claim Real Madrid vs. PSG | NCZD | SPORTS

The draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League generated much controversy, since UEFA made a serious mistake while determining the draw, forcing everything to be repeated. Some teams, such as Real Madrid, disagreed with the decision, given that they had been satisfied with the rival that initially touched them.

According to different Spanish media, the ‘Merengue’ institution, led by Florentino Pérez, sent Aleksander Ceferin, UEFA president, his annoyance at what happened. Let’s remember that they had Benfica as their rival and after the new draw, it was PSG, a situation by which they were notoriously affected.

This Thursday, after the waters calm down, the boss of the European governing body decided to stand up and respond to all those who believe that there was some kind of “fix” in the Champions League event. “Something went wrong with the software. UEFA contacted its software provider and it was decided that the entire draw had to be repeated because it was not known exactly when the error had occurred. Our decision was to be transparent”, He explained.

“It is too early to talk about consequences. We have learned. Obviously it is a UEFA ruling. We were dependent on technology and perhaps we should be less dependent. We are sorry for the mistake. They are failures that occur. They are not human failures, but technological”Added Aleksander Ceferin.

Real Madrid, king of the tournament with thirteen titles, wanted that, if the draw was repeated, it would be done from their confrontation, since Benfica’s balls and his had been the first to come out, when the problem had not yet occurred . After hearing the announcement that it was being fully celebrated again, he considered it a “flagrant adulteration”.

Fortune to the second did not smile on Carlo Ancelotti’s team, who instead of taking on the Lisbon team, will now have to face Leo Messi, Neymar, Kylian Mbappé’s PSG, Sergio Ramos, Keylor Navas and company, in two duels with a tremendous morbidity, both for sports, and for the reunion of some figures with their former colleagues.

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