Pep Guardiola criticises artificial surface Manchester City will play on in Berne
The Guardian says Pep Guardiola has criticised the Wankdorf Stadion’s artificial surface, on which Manchester City will play against Young Boys in the Champions League on Wednesday, by stating it is “common sense” that grass is better for football.
City usually train at home the day before European away matches, but because of the synthetic pitch in Berne they arrived here on Tuesday in order to get used to the surface at Switzerland’s second largest stadium.
“The grass is better [than an artificial surface],” Guardiola said. “Because 99.9% of the teams who play in high level play on grass, otherwise Uefa and Fifa would decide to play on artificial pitch. It’s common sense I would say. It is what it is. If Uefa allows games to be played here it’s because it’s in good conditions. That’s one of the reasons we never train away [to ensure we have our own surface] but this is an exception.