Something wasn't quite right at the Etihad. Definitely the home team playing in a fourth kit played a part, Manchester City becoming the boys in cream (sorry, 'light straw') for a night to promote their Oasis collaboration.
Maybe there was something in Inter too starting with two players who wore numbers higher than 90 on their back. Empty seats can't have helped either, with a stadium where tickets go rapidly for Premier League games failing to ignite enough interest in locals or tourists for the steep price they were set at.
It turns out that the excitement from UEFA and its clubs over this latest money-making exercise is shared by neither the players who have more games for the same pay or fans who have to pay more to follow their team. ALSO READ: Man City player ratings vs Inter as Jack Grealish good but Rodri poor ALSO READ: Man City handed Kevin De Bruyne injury scare for Arsenal as star limps off vs Inter Milan It was telling that some of the loudest cheers in the first half were for a save made by Ederson, the crowd roused as he became alive to the danger.
It summed the half up that the attack - a header direct from a free-kick - was then flagged as offside. Ederson was also the subject of Guardiola's loudest effort, although that was less good for the Brazilian.
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