Man City goalkeeper saves twice in tie-breaker to keep UEFA dream alive
Man City goalkeeper saves twice in tie-breaker to keep UEFA dream alive
Shay Given rescued Manchester City's faltering European dreams last night when he pulled off two stunning penalty shootout saves to put his team into the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
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up and above! Man City goalkeeper Shay Given collects an aerial ball during their UEFA Cup pre-quarter-final tie against Aalborg at Aalborg Stadium inu00a0 Denmark last night. Given made two splendid saves as City won the tie-breaker 4-3. |
Big-spending City surrendered a 2-0 first leg, last 16 lead against Danish outsiders Aalborg in the last six minutes of normal time in the return tie.
Given then held his nerve to save from Thomas Augustinussen and former Sheffield United striker Luton Shelton while Ched Evans, Elano, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Richard Dunne were all successful with their spotkicks for Mark Hughes side.
City could have wrapped the tie up with eight minutes remaining in Denmark when Robinho had a fierce drive come back off the crossbar.
Two minutes later, Shelton gave the Danes hope when he stabbed home a right-wing cross. Then, in the last minute, Evans was penalised for handball and Michael Jakobsen coolly stroked home the penalty.
Udinese, Dynamo Kiev, Shakhtar Donetsk, Hamburg and Paris Saint Germain were the other teams to make it to the last eight.u00a0
On Wednesday, Marseille and Werder Bremen reached had advanced with wins over Ajax and Saint Etienne respectively.
Other UEFA Cup resultsMetalist Kharkiv 3-2 Dynamo Kyiv
Sh Donetsk 2-0 CSKA Moscow
Zenit St Petersburg 1-0 Udinese
Galatasaray 2-3 Hamburg
Braga 0-1 Paris St Germain
