MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach will play their opening Champions League group game on Wednesday after Tuesday's match was postponed due to heavy rain at City's Etihad Stadium. Gladbach wanted the rescheduled game to take place at 6:00 pm local time on Wednesday, but City did not have enough staff members available at that time. "We asked UEFA and Manchester City to play at six o'clock tomorrow because for sporting reasons we wanted to fly back to Germany (after the game)," Gladbach spokesman Markus Aretz told reporters. Several hundred visiting Gladbach fans, many of them shirtless, remained in their seating section singing after the postponement was announced. Both teams are in league action on Saturday, City hosting Bournemouth in the Premier League and Gladbach entertaining Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga.

Source: Bangkok Post September 14, 2016 14:48 UTC