Peter Schmeichel was left unimpressed with the “absolutely dead” atmosphere at the Etihad last night – admitting he would rather have been at Celtic Park.
The Manchester United legend was on Champions League duties for CBS Sports, covering Manchester City’s goalless draw with Inter Milan which the former goalkeeper branded “boring”.
Schmeichel revealed he spent the first half trying to tune into the Celtic game instead, as the Hoops demolished Slovan Bratislava 5-1 in front of a raucous home support, and Peter's son Kasper made his first Champions League appearance for the club.
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Speaking on CBS Sports after the City game, Schmeichel said: '"I thought it was a really, really boring game. I'm sorry to say that. I thought Inter did really well in stopping Man City.
"I like good football and I like excitement from the crowd. It was dead. The Etihad today was absolutely dead. The only people we could hear were the Inter supporters who were quite good. But there's no atmosphere in the Etihad today. Normally you'd think 'well, a big European night', but it didn't happen for them."
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He continued: "I'm going to let you in a secret. I spent a lot of time during the first half trying to connect to something that would make me watch [the Celtic] game as well. The wifi isn't great here. I was reading on live commentary all the way throughout the game."
After being shown the highlights, he gushed: "I've been dying to see this - and what a handsome fella [Kasper] is! I've been watching every Celtic game apart from this one and they've got a lot of really good players. They've got a lot of pace up front, they've got the three Japanese players who are so fantastic and they've got Kuhn on the righthand side.
"The pace they have is incredible and the test is, of course, can they transfer the form they have from the Scottish league to the Champions League. Slovan Bratislava isn't a great team but today was a really, really good test for them. Can they go up against a weaker team and produce the same kind of form? 5-1 is a great result."
The Dane went on to reveal CBS has given him permission to cover Brendan Rodgers’ side’s next UCL game at the Signal Iduna Park, which houses Borussia Dortmund's 25,000-strong Yellow Wall.
"I'm going to be there! I have got permission to be - not in the yellow wall - it's going to be in the green wall."
