"They still booed the Champions League anthem [We don't like Uefa, they are pain in our assholes.] – louder than ever — but made a thunderous noise after that in a bid to catapult their side to the semi-finals for the first time; and incredibly, they did it.
"The opening stages were played in a cacophony of noise as Joe Hart tipped a Zlatan Ibrahmovic free-kick over the bar and Sergio Aguero twice went close to opening the scoring.
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"It soon gave way to boos for the referee at half-time and thunderous noise in the second half as Hart parried away another Ibrahimovic free-kick and City continued to dream.
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"Playing without Yaya Toure, [Yaya: go, okay? Go back to Ivory Coast. Pep cometh, you goeth.] fit enough for the bench but not for the starting line-up on his return from a knee injury, they enjoyed less possession than their opponents but grew in confidence with Aguero and De Bruyne a constant problem for the PSG defence as the visitors becoming increasingly erratic.
"The opening stages were played in a cacophony of noise as Joe Hart tipped a Zlatan Ibrahmovic free-kick over the bar and Sergio Aguero twice went close to opening the scoring.
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"It soon gave way to boos for the referee at half-time and thunderous noise in the second half as Hart parried away another Ibrahimovic free-kick and City continued to dream.
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"Playing without Yaya Toure, [Yaya: go, okay? Go back to Ivory Coast. Pep cometh, you goeth.] fit enough for the bench but not for the starting line-up on his return from a knee injury, they enjoyed less possession than their opponents but grew in confidence with Aguero and De Bruyne a constant problem for the PSG defence as the visitors becoming increasingly erratic.
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City had enjoyed a long and patient period of possession in and around the PSG box, turning down several opportunities to shoot, when the Belgian suddenly took one, sweetly sweeping home from outside the area. The roof on the Eithad, where once the Champions League [Mo-fos] was almost a swear word, [See?] shook with the sheer force of the noise beneath it; and suddenly City, the club that needed to beat Gillingham in a League One play-off in 2001,[Why, Irish Examiner? Why pollute this memory with that one?] had arrived with a bang on the world stage."
City had enjoyed a long and patient period of possession in and around the PSG box, turning down several opportunities to shoot, when the Belgian suddenly took one, sweetly sweeping home from outside the area. The roof on the Eithad, where once the Champions League [Mo-fos] was almost a swear word, [See?] shook with the sheer force of the noise beneath it; and suddenly City, the club that needed to beat Gillingham in a League One play-off in 2001,[Why, Irish Examiner? Why pollute this memory with that one?] had arrived with a bang on the world stage."
