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Metz magic and Dons' taming of Munich

Source: The Guardian

Nov 06, 2009

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From Metz feeding Bernd Schuster ham to Aberdeen lighting up the north, here are some of the great European shocks

1. Barcelona 1-4 Metz (agg: 5-6), 10 October 1984, Cup Winners' Cup, first round

No one saw this coming – almost literally, because after Metz had lost the home leg 4-2 no French TV or radio station bothered to cover the seemingly pointless return match and the Camp Nou was only a quarter full. The pessimism surrounding Metz was understandable: their previous two away matches in the league had been a 6-0 defeat at Bordeaux and a 7-0 mauling at Monaco, and, after the Catalans had benefited from a series of mistakes to win the first leg 4-2, the Barcelona playmaker Bernd Schuster said he would "give the Metz players some ham when they come to our place to thank them for the presents that they give us tonight".

"They really looked down on us – and that made us so angry," Michel Ettore, the Metz goalkeeper, recalled recently. "We wanted to wipe away their insults." After half an hour at Camp Nou, however, Barça's belief grew even stronger as Lobo Carras

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