Monday night’s Champions Cup friendly between Manchester City and Manchester United was cancelled due to the extreme pitch conditions of the National Stadium in Beijing.
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Some of Mourinho’s players – the team took two flights from Shanghai – were forced to land in Tianjin on Saturday as a violent storm in Beijing made it impossible for their flight to land there.
Manchester United’s preseason friendly against their local rivals Manchester City has been cancelled after both clubs expressed concerns about the state of the pitch.
“Beijing has seen continuous heavy rains in recent days”. Manager Mourinho’s planned news conference had to be scrapped as too many people tried to get into a room which was deemed too small and too hot.
The global friendly between Manchester United and Manchester City, originally planned to kickoff in Beijing at 7:30 p.m. earlier this evening, was called off by event organizers due to severe weather conditions. On Friday, the Red Devils suffered a huge defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the opening match of the International Champions Cup. We can not just run away and disappear and not play. “It is nearly the end and we can go home and train in conditions where the players are safe”, he said.
According to BBC Sport, Pep Guardiola will shake Jose Mourinho’s hand at Monday’s friendly. I just hope the players keep that balance and there are no problems.
“But they had it with a smile on their faces which is good”.
Mourinho admitted he can not wait to get back to Manchester and begin training with his full complement of players. United play Galatasaray on July 30, while City take on Arsenal on August 7.
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And an irritable Mourinho was left equally dumbfounded as to why such scrutiny was being placed on any pre-match trivialities between the two. The problem for me are the bad conditions to play and train. “A good result means going home without any injuries”, insisted the Portuguese.
