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gmercer1 wrote:City win on pens! Christ that was hard work to eat h the shoot out.
Grimshaw redeems himself. Well done lad

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I often talk about the size of opposition teams against City youngsters but this Inter team were more like basketball players than footballers!! They were massive. The front 3 players looked 6 foot 3 or 4 at least. If ever there was a physical contest or a heading one there was only one winner.

Having said that they came with no real thought about attacking at all. Sat back often with a 6 man back line and just went for the one nil win( especially after the silly goal) or a draw as I reckoned they fancied themselves on pens.

Fair play to Grimshaw after the horror mistake. Never let it get to him and more than made up for the mistake in what must be the worst shoot out i have ever seen.

Diaz looked the most likely to get a winner but he just could get through the wall. He did wriggle through a few times but the final ball usually hit another defender as they had so many. He took a while to get into the game did Foden but it was Foden's clever ball to Nmecha that won the penalty.

johnny crossan wrote:

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I often talk about the size of opposition teams against City youngsters but this Inter team were more like basketball players than footballers!! They were massive. The front 3 players looked 6 foot 3 or 4 at least. If ever there was a physical contest or a heading one there was only one winner.

Having said that they came with no real thought about attacking at all. Sat back often with a 6 man back line and just went for the one nil win( especially after the silly goal) or a draw as I reckoned they fancied themselves on pens.

Fair play to Grimshaw after the horror mistake. Never let it get to him and more than made up for the mistake in what must be the worst shoot out i have ever seen.

Diaz looked the most likely to get a winner but he just could get through the wall. He did wriggle through a few times but the final ball usually hit another defender as they had so many. He took a while to get into the game did Foden but it was Foden's clever ball to Nmecha that won the penalty.

That shoot out was epic - how many misses? Must have said - 'that's it they've lost' at least 6 times

Justified logic wrote:

gmercer1 wrote:City win on pens! Christ that was hard work to eat h the shoot out.
Grimshaw redeems himself. Well done lad

That was 3-2 on 8 penalties each!

Not as shocking as the opening goal gifted to Inter. Talk about casual!

Justified logic wrote:Dippers won 2-0 so they are the quarters opponents in Manchester. Winner at home to Barca or Atletico Madrid in the semis!