Man City travel plans disrupted by poor weather ahead of RB Leipzig Champions League clash
Man City boss Pep Guardiola is preparing for RB Leipzig Champions League clash
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Manchester City have had to reschedule their flight to Germany ahead of tomorrow night's Champions League clash with RB Leipzig.
The reigning champions are hoping to return to winning ways after a shock 2-1 defeat to Wolves on Saturday.
Yet City have now had to reschedule their flight as they look to make it back to back victories in the Champions League.
Poor weather has forced them to jet out later than intended, with Pep Guardiola's side previously hoping to fly out straight after training.
Man City players have been training ahead of their Champions League showdown with RB Leipzig
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Flights don't seem to be going Guardiola's way at the moment.
Just last week the City boss raged that they had to take a coach to Newcastle, in a match they'd later lose.
“The team manager told me it happened in the previous [match] in London," he said after a hard-fought 2-0 victory over Nottingham Forest.
"We don’t have planes to travel back, so we have to take a bus, it’s two or three hours [longer].
“We arrive here so late — I’m not sure what time — and on Friday we travel to Wolves. Then we go to Germany to play [RB Leipzig] in the Champions League and that is a really important game for us.”
Poor weather has also impacted Arsenal, too.
Mikel Arteta's side go into their match with Sevilla on the back of a 4-0 victory over PSV Eindhoven last month.
But their plans for the upcoming match in Spain were disrupted due to the stormy weather.
Arsenal players and staff members, as well as Arteta, were stranded at Luton Airport for five hours.
They had previously trained at London Colney late on Monday morning. Arsenal have escaped a fine as the cancellation was out of their control.
Arteta then had to conduct media duties over the phone, instead of in person.
It was a similar story with defender William Saliba, who gave interviews to journalists in that same fashion.
Guardiola, meanwhile, was furious after his City side fell to a surprising defeat against Wolves on Saturday afternoon.
He said: "Congratulations Wolves, they deserved it.
"We had chances and struggled to deal with transitions and they played very well.
"We were there and settled well and the question is when the opponent is faster and quicker, we have to accept it."
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss also shrugged off City losing their second consecutive match, having fallen to defeat against Newcastle mere days earlier.
"Different competitions," he said.
"At Newcastle [we] were miles better than today and now we go onto the next one."
City drew with Leipzig when they played in the last-16 of the Champions League last season.
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Arsenal also had their travel plans disrupted prior to their own Champions League showdown with Sevilla
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They did, however, then proceed to beat the German side 7-0 in the second leg before later winning the competition in June.
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