Manchester City manager forgets passport on his way to Champions League game

For Manchester City, the UEFA Champions League remains a bogey competition and that doesn't end on the pitch.

Outside the pitch, preparations have also not been easy for them as manager Manuel Pellegrini forgot his passport as he was making his way to Germany for their UCL group clash with Borussia Monchengladbach.

The 62-year-old manager quickly stepped off the team bus at Manchester Airport’s Terminal Three entered a taxi that took him home.

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The taxi took Pellegrini to his home in Hale, Cheshire to retrieve his passport and returned to join his team half an hour later just in time to catch the flight to Dusseldorf with 10 minutes to spare.

Pellegrini however thinks his passport blunder is not important like the three points they are targeting at against Monchengladbach.

“It is not important,” Pellegrini said when he was asked about the passport blunder.

“I have two passports and I brought the wrong passport,” he explained.

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After losing their first group match of the UCL season at home to Juventus, Pellegrini said the clash against Monchengladbach is very important.

“It is not a final but it is a very important game,” Pellegrini said.

“We want to recover the points we dropped at home. We know that the Champions League is just five games that we must qualify.

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