last night I don't think any Inter fan would have expected a result like this! after the various bad matches in Serie A no one would have bet a penny on Inter's victory last night! and it was a nice surprise because the second leg will be played at san siro with 80,000 Inter supporters pushing the team to victory, we'll know the verdict on 19 April!
Inter fans did not expect that good result in Portugal but their players made it. Fairly said, Inter Milan did not play too much better than Benfica and their second goal was very lucky. However, that goal is important for Inter Milan to go to semi final because if they only win with 1 goal difference, Benfica will have good confidence that they can win 1 - 0 at Giuseppe Meazza and bring Inter Milan to extra halfs or penalty shoot-out. Fortunatley, with two goal difference after the first leg, chance for Benfica to revert it in the second leg is very small, if not say it is impossible mission.
Manchester City are a really solid team, it is difficult to see or imagine any team that can defeat them seeing how hard working and committed the players are to every game they play. After scoring the first goal, they did not cool things down but went ahead to see how many more goals they will be able to score, and they scored more while still maintaining a clean sheet, Manchester made full use of the home advantage, maybe Bayern can do the same in the second leg. With what I saw in the game, I am wondering why they really replaced their old coach with Tuchel.
Manchester City played well and won big but they even can win bigger and finalize quarter final after the first leg. Some excellent saves from Yann Sommer helped Bayern Munich to avoid a bigger loss and somewhat helped Bayern Munich to have small chance in a second leg. Imagine if Manchester City win 4 - 0 or 5 - 0, we don't have anything to discuss about a second leg in Munich.