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.
That proved to be De Bruyne‘s final act in the match as he and Savinho were replaced at the break by Phil Foden and llkay Gundogan.
Inter had the first major opening of the second half when Darmian was rolled through by Taremi.
However, with Ederson advancing towards him, the wing-back chose to backheel the ball into oncoming traffic rather than fire at goal.
City hustled hard but weren’t able to test Sommer until the 69th minute.
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