CITY 5 SCHALKE 04 1
European Cup Winners Cup Semi-final 2nd leg
15th April 1970
Attendance 46,361
Scorers
City Doyle(9), Young(14 & 27), Lee(52), Bell(81)
Schalke Libuda(89)
Ref L Van Ravens
City Corrigan, Book, Paroloe, Doyle, Booth, Oakes, Towers, Bell, Lee, Young, Summerbee – subs Carrodus(68), Heslop(84), Dowd(unused), Mann(unused), Bowyer(unused)
Schalke Nigbur, Slomiany Becher; Ruessmann, Fichler; Wittkamp, Libuda, Neuser; Pohlschmidt, Erlhoff, Van Haaren – used subs Scheer(45), Wet(62)
MIKE DOYLE OPENS THE SCORING
FROM FRANCIS LEE, TRIUMPH, TREACHERY AND TOILET ROLLS
… training was good, and we were ready for Schalke with both Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell passed fit to play after niggling injuries. We worked hard in training with tactics to counter their sweeper and it paid off when the game got underway. Malcolm wanted lots of movement from our forward players in and around the box to isolate and confuse the man sweeping up. This involved our forwards pulling The defence to our right side before switching play to Alan Oakes on the left, exploiting the space.
It worked a treat when Alan pounced to set up Mike Doyle, breaking forward to give us the lead on nine minutes. Alan repeated the trick five minutes later by providing the pass to Neil Young, coming in from the right, who rattled in our second. Incredibly, Alan did it again by threading the needle with another pass to Neil, who notched with a 16-yard ripper of a left foot drive on 27 minutes.
So, it was 3-1 at half-time and we’d got the game plan just right. It was even more comfortable when I chipped in with our fourth, moving from the left towards the box. I collected Mike Doyle’s pass and crashed a right footer in from 14 yards. Our fifth wrapped it up when Neil Young’s left-wing cross was met by Colin Bell at the near post, and his deft flick shot inside The keeper’s left hand post. Virtually our only fault on the night was allowing a last minute consolation, with ‘Stan’ Libuda poking in after big Joe had parried Erlhoff’s shot.
A big semi-final win, 5-2 on aggregate, and we were absolutely over the moon with that.
COLIN BELL SCORES CITY’S FIFTH
From NEIL YOUNG, CATCH A FALLING STAR
Schalke were a good team with four or five German internationals in the side, but on the night we outfought, outthought, outplayed and outclassed them. Doyley scored our first then I weighed in with the next two, put on a plate for me by Alan Oakes. I remember Doyley with his arms raised, he must have raced the length of the pitch to get to the end of that cross and must have been ecstatic because he didn’t score that often.
Nobody could have lived with us that night. That’s exactly what the Schalke coach said as well.