The Borussia Dortmund players and staff in the dressing room could be heard outside as Neil Wood sidled over to chat. The Manchester United striker Charlie McNeill, scorer in the first-half, denied a penalty in added time and one of the three who failed to convert their spotkick, was 'upset'.
"I don't feel like we got much through that game, so it’s frustrating," Wood said of the referee. The few of us with press passes had managed to find a clip of the tackle on McNeill that not only confirmed it was a patent penalty but that the referee had a perfect view.
Twice the United Under-19s recovered from conceding to draw 2-2 with Dortmund. There is no extra-time in the Uefa Youth League, so it went straight to a penalty shootout. McNeill struck the post while Hannibal Mejbri and Noam Emeran's tame attempts were saved.
