CITY 3 ATLETICO BILBAO 0
City win 6-3 on aggregate
European Cup Winners Cup 1st Round 2nd Leg
1st October 1969
Attendance 49,664
Scorers Oakes(57), Bell(67), Bowyer(85)
Ref I Zsolt
City Corrigan, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Booth, Oakes, Summerbee, Bell, Lee, Young, Bowyer – subs Mulhearn(unused), Bowles(unused), Connor(unused), Heslop(unused), Owen(unused)
Bilbao Iribar, Zugazaga, Aranguren, Igartua, Larrauri, Echeberria, Rojo, Argoitia, Betzuen, Clemente, Arieta
ALAN OAKES OPENS THE SCORING
FROM THE PRESS BOX
SPANIARDS OUTSHONE
EDITORIAL FROM THE TIMES 2ND OCTOBER 1969 Manchester City`s indomitable spirit and ceaseless attacking enthusiasm were the factors which proved decisive in their 3-0 win against Atletico Bilbao at Maine Road Iast night, and gave them an aggregate victory by 6-3 and a place in the second round of the European Cup Winners Cup. In fact by the end the Spanish side were almost humiliated by the Manchester club. whose success was their first in a Continental competition.
Bilbao had little answer to the countless attacks and innumerable shots from City’s eager forwards. Indeed it was only the skill of Iribar, and the number of defenders they packed into the goalmouth, that kept the score down. City`s pressure never eased though no score came before half-time. In the 58th minute Oakes. their tireless wing forward. swept through the Atletico defence to score a superb goal from 25 yards.
COLIN BELL MAKES IT 2-0
Nine minutes later it was Oakes again who provided a long through ball, Iribar chased frantically to the edge of the goal area but could only stand watching as Bell headed home Young`s deflected shot. Five minutes from the end Iribar deflected a drive from Young. which Bowyer pushed home.
IAN BOWYER CRACKS HOME THE THIRD
FROM FRANCIS LEE, TRIUMPH, TREACHERY AND TOILET ROLLS
I don’t know how the game was goalless At the break, probably down to the heroics of their keeper Iribar and the packed defence in front of him. I was still sure We’d crack them. We kept the pressure on but had to wait until 12 minutes after the interval before the breakthrough came.
Alan Oakes picked the ball up on halfway and he ran forward, and ran, and ran, they just backed off and Alan tried his look, brilliantly from 25 yards, and it absolutely flew in. Our second one seemed to end up in the back of the net in slow motion. Iribar dashed out to try to block Mike Summerbee on the edge of the area, but the ball squirted out to Neil Young and his shot was half blocked, the ball looping high towards the goal. When it finally dropped, Colin Bell was able to nod in from almost under the bar.
We wrapped it up five minutes from time when I played an angled ball through to Neil Young. When he again had a shot blocked by keeper Iribar, Ian Bowyer pounced to pounced To despatch the rebound. That was it, 3-0 and our first success in European competition.
