Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has expressed his unhappiness after CSKA Moscow fans attended Tuesday night’s game, despite being banned.
The Russian champions were ordered by UEFA to deny any supporters from attending the game, but reports claimed that almost 700 people (family members, reporters and business men) were in attendance.
City took a half-time lead at the Arena Khimki thanks to goals from Sergio Aguero and James Milner, but the home side pegged them back, leaving City captain Kompany furious with the fan presence.
“You say ‘No fans’ then all of a sudden you turn up and basically the only team that hasn’t got fans is Man City so who’s getting punished? Who is being done for racism? Man City or Moscow, you know?
“I don’t have a problem – they will say it’s sponsors and so on and they need to give certain allocations – but why are we getting punished?”
Kompany went on to add that his complaints had nothing to do with drawing, but more to do with the fairness of the game.
“We’ve analysed [the game] and we know we should have done better but things like this are unacceptable, to be honest. There’s just no fairness in it,” he continued.
“It didn’t have an effect on the players. It’s just little things when you leave with a result like this.
“Obviously you can’t deny there’s a bit of frustration and I’m not looking for an excuse but, if you want to play it fair, then, fair enough, you’ve got to let your sponsors have some tickets but why the hell do we not have any fans here?
“Why? What have our fans done wrong? It needs to be looked at, it needs to be changed, because our fans shouldn’t be punished.”