As part of the match of the first round of the general stage of the Champions League, Manchester City hosted Inter on its field. Jack Grealish, Savinho and Rico Lewis appeared in the starting line-up of the “townsmen”, while Mehdi Taremi entered the Italian team from the first minutes. Lautaro Martinez, Denzel Dumfries and Henrikh Mkhitaryan remained on the bench.

From the first teams demonstrated high speeds and were quite sharp, but it did not come to really dangerous moments. Somewhere Tyuram hit from the penalty corner, somewhere Holland did not have time to get into a killing position after a cross. The Norwegian could score already in the second part of the first half, when he shot from the penalty line – the ball went past the far corner, it was a little short.

A little later, De Bruyne shot from the left flank, but Bernarda Silva missed the ball in the central area. The Belgian was injured sometime during this period of time. Time Kevin finished, but did not appear for the second half. Pep Guardiola, who can sometimes do without substitutions at all, decided to make two changes at halftime: Foden instead of Savinho and Gundogan instead of De Bruyne.

Manchester City actively started the second half, but the moment was created by Inter: Taremi connected Darmian on the flank with an excellent pass, and he came out almost face to face, but decided to give the fifth – inaccurately. Over time, the “townsmen” increased the tempo of the game and in the 70th minute played a great attack in the foreign penalty area, and the final blow was delivered by Foden – Sommer saved his team by deflecting a shot from a killer position.

Inter did not forget about other people’s goal at all and could even score when Mkhitaryan responded to a pass from the wing from Dumfries and shot over the goal from 10 meters. The end of the match remained for Manchester City – the home team could score twice. First, Guardiol received the ball on the approach to the penalty area and powerfully shot – Sommer saved Inter. And a little later, Gundogan fired a header at the goal after a pass from the wing, but it hit the hands of Sommera.

Manchester City — Inter 0:0

Manchester City: Ederson — Lewis, Diaz, Akanji, Guardiol — Silva (Doku, 80), Rodri, De Bruyne (Gündogan, 46) — Grealish, Savinho (Foden, 46) — Holland

Inter: Sommer – Bissek (Pavar, 75), Acherbi, Bastoni – Darmian (Dumfries, 75), Barella, Calhanoglu (Fratezi, 81), Zelinski (Mkhitaryan, 66), Augusto – Taremi, Thuram (Martinez, 65)

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