Former Golden Eaglets star,Kelechi Iheanacho made a brief return to action.
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Tuesday night when he featured for 10 minutes as
Manchester City under-19s marched into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Youth League with a hard-fought penalty shoot-out win over Schalke at the Academy Stadium.
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The Nigerian starlet,SPORTING Jersey NUMBER 39
came on for Barker for the last 20 minutes to help
provide a focal point up front but a tough tackle
forced him off and would be replaced by Celina in the 80th minute.
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It was Iheanacho’s first game in the competition after recovering from a knee injury.This latest setback will be a blow to Nigeria-20 team officials who were considering including the player in the squad to the African Youth Championship which starts next weekend in Senegal.
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After a 1-1 draw in normal time, spot-kicks were
required to separate the sides and it was City –
inspired by the impressive Angus Gunn and a vocal
home following – who triumphed.
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The hosts had looked to be sailing through to the
next round, thanks to Jack Byrne’s sixth goal in seven
games in the tournament but a last-gasp deflected
Christian Sivodedov strike rescued a draw for the
visitors, sending the tie to penalties.
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Having surrendered their lead so late on in the game, it was feared the blow would affect the home side going into the shoot-out but the young Blues showed
character to bounce back and clinch a 3-1 shoot-out victory.
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