Manchester City v Borussia Dortmund

Dortmund keep City ambitions in check

October 3, 2012
By Richard Jolly, Etihad Stadium
(Archive)
It was the best part of 36 hours after a bullish Yaya Toure and then a more tentative Roberto Mancini had insisted they could win the Champions League that, two games into their abortive campaign, the Europa League beckoned. Manchester City were minutes from a deserved defeat that would have left them six points behind both Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid.

Then came a fitting form of rescue for the super-rich. Cheques have brought them to this stage and a Czech was their salvation. ...

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