City were held to a goalless draw with Inter in our opening game of the new Champions League season.
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City v Inter – Champions League LIVE Match Updates
In a replay of the 2023 Champions League final and only the second ever competitive meeting between the two clubs, there was nothing to separate the sides as both sets of defences dominated their attacking counterparts.
It’s the first time we have failed to score in a home Champions League match since the March 2022 draw with Sporting CP.
The result means we begin the new-look Champions League with one point from the first of eight games as part of the 36-team league phase.
Inter are Serie A champions for a reason though and appeared threatening on the break, with strikers Marcus Thuram and Mehdi Taremi ready to leap on any slack touch in midfield.
Yann Sommer, Inter’s Swiss goalkeeper, was first tested just shy of 19 minutes, when Haaland catapulted himself into the night sky to meet Savinho’s floated cross.
The Italians grew into the game significantly as the first half wore on.
Josko Gvardiol was forced into a brilliant headed clearance in front of his goal after a Matteo Darmian strike before Ederson had to palm a Thuram header – later called offside – to safety on the half hour mark.
City hit back with an attacking flurry of our own, eventually culminating a low Haaland shot from 20 yards that rolled narrowly wide of the far post.
Kevin De Bruyne was the next to go close but Sommer was quick off his line to smother our Belgian’s effort.
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