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The first team flight is sent to an alternate airport after flying to London on the eve of the Premier League match
The Manchester City flight to London had to be diverted after a technical problem on the plane prevented it from landing at its scheduled destination.
The first-team squad flew into the capital on Friday ahead of City’s lunchtime Premier League clash with West Ham United.
But his flight had to be redirected from the city’s airport to London Stansted, more than 30 miles away.
objective understands that there was a problem with the aircraft’s anti-slip system that made it unable to land at an airport with a short runway.
The team suffered a slight delay before traveling to the hotel ahead of Saturday’s crash.
It is understood that there were no failures on the part of the airport, but the flight would not have needed to be diverted if it were scheduled to land at a major airport.
In 2016, a City team flight left the runway during takeoff from Norwich.
City traveled without injured players Gabriel Jesus, Fernandinho and Benjamin Mendy.
Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte returned to training on Thursday and Pep Guardiola was silent on whether they would be fit to face the Hammers again.
“Some of them will be [involved]”He said at his pre-game press conference. “Some of them, no. You’ll find out tomorrow. “
A win could move City to third place in the Premier League and above Liverpool after playing the same number of games.
City have won each visit to London Stadium, scoring 22 goals and conceding just once.
But Guardiola expects a difficult game against a team buoyed by their comeback against Tottenham when they drew a 3-3 draw after conceding three goals in the first 20 minutes.
“The past is the past, we have good results,” said the city chief. “What we saw against Tottenham, West Ham always has quality players. They play very well against Tottenham, not only the last minutes, even with 3-0 against they play with a lot of personality.
“They are in good shape. They are definitely in a good moment ”.
City have two more away games after their trip to West Ham, playing Marseille in the Champions League on Tuesday night, followed by Sheffield United on Saturday.
“The schedule is crazy for everyone, especially for the teams that play in Europe,” Guardiola said.
“Right now I don’t know my selection. We play tomorrow at 12.30, so there is not much recovery. Today the boys trained very well and tonight we will decide ”.
