The big moment has arrived! Manchester City and Inter cross their swords in a few hours (22:00) at the “Ataturk Olympic Stadium” in Istanbul, aiming to win the Champions League trophy!
The “citizens” ardently desire the precious trophy in order to have it recognition which they deserve in recent years (but also to make a mythical treble with the English championship, FA Cup and Champions League), as despite the fact that they have an excellent roster and have swept almost everything in England in recent years, they have not managed never in their history to lift the big-eared trophy. In their only appearance in a final, the 2021 against Chelsea, they could not make it happen, as the “blues” found a way to leave the “Dragão” in triumph, despite having – in theory – a lower quality team.
In the competitive part, Pep Guardiola he will not have a headache, since he will have all the players at his disposal. “It really is a dream. But in the end, it’s a struggle. The team that will be better in 95 minutes will win. Historically Inter are bigger than us. It is not important. It is important that tomorrow at 22:00 in Istanbul we try to have the best possible performance.
I’m not here to discuss Haaland’s goal average. If you have doubts about this, you are the only person. I have no doubts, tomorrow he will be ready to help us win the Champions League.
To be successful you have to have good players. I had Messi before, Haaland now. This is my success. I’m not kidding. Let them feel that alone they can’t do it, together we are a strong team.” stated, among other things, the Catalan technician.
On the contrary, Inter will find themselves for seventh time in the final of the premier inter-club competition, seeking their fourth trophy and first since 2010, when the Diego Milito wrote his name in golden letters in the team’s history, cleaning up Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu with two goals of his own.
However, whatever happens in tonight’s match, Simone Inzaghi’s team will be in the Champions League next season as well, having finished in the top four of Serie A, while a few days ago they also won the Italian Cup.
Mkhitaryan and Korea will be doubtful for the big game, with Brozovic looking set to take the Armenian midfielder’s place in the starting line-up.
Possible lineups:
Manchester City (Pep Guardiola): Anderson, Walker, Diaz, Ake, Stones, Rodry, Guidogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Grealish, Haaland.
Inter (Simone Inzaghi): Onana, Darmian, Acerbi, Bastoni, Dumfries, Barela, Calhanoglu, Brozovic, Dimarco, Lautaro, Dzeko.
Referee: Simon Marciniak (Poland)
Source: Sport Fm
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