CAF’s Confederations Cup match involving home side Kumasi Asante Kotoko and San Pedro at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi yesterday was called off due to a heavy downpour making the very wet and not favourable for football
The two teams walked out of the dressing rooms looking all confident after the first half failed to produce goals for both teams.
But their hopes and confidence of going all out to get the much-needed point were ruled out as the organisers called off the game as a result of a downpour.
The game which saw a goalless first half has been rescheduled to Monday, October 28, at 15 hours GMT according to organisers.
Per the CAF rules governing the game, rescheduled matches are to be started from where it stopped.
If a match is abandoned after kick-off for reasons of force majeure, and in particular for poor pitch conditions and/ or bad weather conditions deemed by the referee, the following principles apply:
- The match will resume at the minute where it was interrupted (instead of being replayed
in its entirety), and with the same score; - The match resumes with the same players on the field and the same available substitutes when the game was interrupted;
- No further substitutions will be added to the summoned list of players;
- The teams are only allowed to the number of substitutions remaining when the game was
interrupted; - Expelled players during the interrupted match cannot be replaced;
- Any sanctions imposed before the match was interrupted remains in force for the rest of
the game; - The kick-off time, date and location will be decided by CAF
