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Manchester City’s Defending a Cause for Concern Ahead of Crucial Tottenham Clash
- Updated: September 29, 2016
When football delivers, as it did in Glasgow on Wednesday evening as Celtic and Manchester City played out a thrilling 3-3 draw, there are few other sports that can match it for sheer excitement. This was supposed to be an unequal encounter, with the Premier League behemoth, on a 10-game winning run, expected to roll over their Scottish counterparts and effectively qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League after just two Group C matches.
After all, Scottish football is seen as an inferior “product” to the English game. How can Celtic, a mix of misfits and bargains who lost their first group match 7-0 in Barcelona, compete with the Premier League leaders assembled at huge cost?
But football is rarely that straightforward. Celtic delivered a spectacular display and led three times. City, widely praised this season for their technical brilliance and their style of football, showed us they can also fight, coming from behind on three occasions to ensure they remain unbeaten under Pep Guardiola.
It was a frantic, breathless 90 minutes played out against a backdrop of spectacular colour and deafening noise—a game that had everything and left few in any doubt about its status as the best in this season’s competition to date.
FT | Celtic 3-3 CityWhat a game! Great character from #mcfc to come back three times. A @ChampionsLeague classic. pic.twitter.com/6fmYo8C2LQ
— Manchester City (@ManCity) September 28, 2016
“A noise I’ve never heard before,” was how Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers described the din inside Celtic Park, which was thunderous just prior to kick-off and increased steadily as the home side began with a bang.
They were quicker to the ball than City, out-pressing them and overrunning them, denying them any time to settle on the ball. They attacked in waves and City, for the first time this season, struggled to cope.
Brendan Rodgers: “It’s a noise I’ve never heard before.” Celtic Park
