While it was tempting to compare the game against Milan to Barcelona's frustrating semifinal against Chelsea, this first leg was actually more worrying.
In 1989, he was an aspiring Barca midfielder when the then 22-year-old suffered a serious knee against Milan in the European Super Cup - an injury that would bring his career to a premature end four years later.
While Gill reiterated the Glazers' commitment to the club, supporters are planning a 10-minute boycott of the Champions League last 16 match against AC Milan on 10 March.
Warnock was making reference to United's game against Chelsea in the FA Cup final this Saturday and Liverpool's match against AC Milan in the Champions League final on 23 May.
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney had a police escort to see him through passport control after arriving at the airport only 35 minutes before the flight to Italy for the Champions League match against AC Milan.
The tireless striker, hoping to make up for his sending off against Inter Milan, intercepted a Blackburn breakaway with a sliding tackle and set up Malouda, who strolled through the defence but shot straight at the keeper.
Barcelona are travelling 450 miles by coach over two days to Italy for Tuesday's first leg against Inter Milan, while French side Lyon will make a 360-mile road trip for their tie at Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Chelsea will be hoping he keeps his scoring touch for their midweek Champions League home game against Inter Milan, who lead 2-1 from the first leg of the last 16 tie and are managed by their old boss Jose Mourinho.
Meanwhile, Silvio Berlusconi, who has been dogged by corruption and sexual misconduct allegations for years, insisted he was innocent on Friday at an appeal trial in Milan against a tax fraud conviction in October.
Earlier this season, it was reported that former Stuttgart midfielder Hleb, 26, held secret talks with Inter while in the city ahead of Arsenal's Champions League game against rivals AC Milan at the San Siro.
In other games, Russia needed a fortuitous 84th minute penalty to defeat Azerbaijan 1-0 in Moscow, Belgium continued their impressive form when beating Scotland 2-0 at home while Italy made light of losing Pablo Osvaldo to a red card after 46 minutes as they won 3-1 in Milan against Denmark .
But those statistics were rendered meaningless on an afternoon of triumph for City coach and former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini, who pitted his wits in the Premier League for the first time against ex-AC Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti.
The visitors went close when David Strihavka hooked a shot against the post and Milan Ivana had a free-kick tipped wide but Spurs held on.
Rangers face tough away games at Celtic, Porto and Hibernian in November and Murray mentioned the matches against Falkirk and Inter Milan on 3 and 6 December.
Iniesta is set to miss the Champions League semifinals against Italian champions Inter Milan on April 20 and 28, but may return for the final on May 22 in Madrid if Barca progress that far.
Whichever team progresses to the last four will face a semifinal against either Italian champions Inter Milan or Russia's CSKA Moscow .
Two goals from Rodrigo Palacio put Inter Milan in a commanding position against CFR Cluj-Napoca before the second leg in Romania.
Berlusconi has been campaigning as a Milan court weighs his appeal against a tax fraud conviction, for which he was sentenced to four years in jail last year.
The septuagenarian playboy billionaire nicknamed "Il Cavaliere" has been campaigning as a Milan court weighs his appeal against a tax fraud conviction, for which he was sentenced to four years in jail last year.
"FIFA can confirm that AC Milan and Anderlecht have lodged complaints against the agent Paulo Teixeira and that FIFA has opened a case, " FIFA told CNN.
Barca, who beat Real in the semifinals last year before going on to defeat Manchester United in the final, face a heavyweight clash against Italy's seven-time winners AC Milan on Wednesday.
Next week - in a case that has captured the public imagination - a court outside Milan is due to consider murder charges against a group of young people accused of killing two teenagers as part of a Satanic rite.
Milan lost in a penalty shoot-out against the Reds in Istanbul, having given away a 3-0 half-time lead and with Maldini having scored the opener after only 51 seconds.
Pellegrini himself labeled the last 32 first leg shock a "disgrace" and received further disappointing news on Wednesday as star signing Cristiano Ronaldo was ruled out of the weekend league match against Getafe and the midweek Champions League clash with AC Milan.
But Milan have said that they will not be appealing against the decision.
After being selected as the UK potential venue, it competed against the likes of Moscow and Lausanne in Switzerland before facing Milan in the final stage.
Following last year's comprehensive 3-1 aggregate defeat against Lionel Messi and colleagues in the Champions League quarterfinals, Milan overhauled their squad -- with Gennaro Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf, Alessandro Nesta and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among those moved on.
They played a single match against Greece just months before the finals, winning 4-0 in Milan before the Greeks withdrew from the return match.
Beckham, who won his 115th cap when coming on as a substitute in Wednesday's game against Belarus, returned to the England squad during a successful loan period at Milan last season.
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