CSKA Moscow Expected To Be Sanctioned With 3 Games Behind Closed Doors

CSKA Moscow's Champions League home game with Man City is "one of three fixtures the Russian club expect to play behind closed doors" because of the "violence perpetrated by fans before their 5-1 Group E defeat at Roma" on Sept. 17, according to the BBC. CSKA were "already due to play Bayern behind closed doors as punishment for racist chanting by fans last season." CSKA GM Roman Babaev said, "It is likely we will have to play all our home games behind closed doors. They [UEFA] could exclude us from the Champions League." The club has been charged for the "behaviour of their fans in Rome, where violent clashes with police, from which four officers and 13 stewards were left injured, forced the match to be halted" (BBC, 9/26).