Man City captain Vincent Kompany questions UEFA after hundreds of fans support CSKA in 'behind closed doors' match
Captain Vincent Kompany claims it is "unacceptable" Manchester City had no fans at their Champions League tie at CSKA Moscow while the home side apparently did.
CSKA appeared to have around 200-300 fans backing them at a game that was officially played behind closed doors at the Khimki Arena.
European governing body UEFA ordered the stadium to be closed as punishment for persistent offences by CSKA fans, who have been found guilty of racist behaviour three times in the past year.
Despite that, 650 people were still permitted to attend and the CSKA supporters who vocally backed their team were thought to have come from within an allocation of 300 tickets set aside for sponsors.
Kompany said: "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?
"I don't have a problem, they'll say it's sponsors and so on and they need to give certain allocations, but why are we getting punished?
"You'll have people in your papers writing columns saying, 'he should be looking at his own performance and stuff' - so we've analysed it and we know we should have done better but things like this are unacceptable to be honest, there's just no fairness in it."
It was a frustrating night for City in the Russian capital as they surrendered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2.
Kompany insisted he was not looking for excuses for the result but felt the issue should be highlighted.
He said: "No, it didn't have an effect on the players. It doesn't have an effect, 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 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? So it needs to be looked at, it needs to be changed, because our fans shouldn't be punished."