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UEFA have acted to reduce the punishments handed out to CSKA Moscow for the repeated racist behaviour of their fans.

Following another offence from their supporters against AS Roma, the Russian club were ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 euros and play their next three home games in European competition behind closed doors.

But CSKA appealed, and announced on their website on Tuesday that their fine has been halved and supporter ban reduced to two games.

With the match against City counting as the first in the ban, it means supporters will only be locked out of one more European match.

The decision is unlikely to go down well with Blues supporters.

While the meeting between the two sides was officially behind closed doors, a couple of hundred CSKA fans managed to gain access to the stadium, creating a partisan atmosphere inside the ground in support of the home side and leaving City skipper Vincent Kompany seething.

"It is little things like, there aren't meant to be any fans there, but there are still 500 fans there for [CSKA]," he said.

"That isn't a problem, but I don't understand where our fans are. Why can't we bring our fans in?

"The only team being punished here is Manchester City... Little things where I feel we need to speak up sometimes, because it's nonsense. They are the team that got done for racism, not Man City, so why can't our fans come?"

He added: "It leaves a lot of bad feelings. I guess at the moment everyone wants to hear how we think we should have done better and how we feel our performances need to be better in Europe, but I won't play a part in it."

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