Guardiola’s treble City beat Inter and climbed to… 7th heaven!

Manchester City made history! His team Pep Guardiola he found them dark against the extraordinary Interlost early for another final ton De Bruyne but thanks to his collar Rodri won the first Champions League in its history!

Terrible match from the spirited Nerazzurri, who had a goal post after the Citizens’ lead and unimaginable missed opportunity with Lukaku to send it to overtime!

Second… city after Milan, Manchester with two teams that win the Champions League (City and United), with Pep Guardiola’s team achieving the historic treble and leaving Simone Inzaghi’s players with an “ah”!

THE Guardiola became the 6th coach to win the prestigious trophy with two different teams, having also lifted it with Barcelona. Third victory in his career, first after 12 years.

In the coach’s mind

With the well-known 3-2-4-1, Pep Guardiola brought down Manchester City, but leaving Walker on the bench. At home, Ederson and Dias, Akanji, Ake were in the trio of stoppers. Stones, Rodri the two midfielders, with Bernardo Silva, Guidogan, De Bruyne, Grealish in front of them and Haaland at the top of the attack.

Simone Inzaghi on the other hand lined up Inter with the classic 3-5-2, choosing Brozovic instead of Mkhitaryan who had little practice. At the end Onana and Darmian, Acerbi, Bastoni in the stoppers. Dumfries, Dimarko are the full-backs, with the axis trio consisting of Barela, Brozovic, Tsalhanoglou. The… well-known duo with Lautaro Martinez and Dzeko in the attack.

The match

THE Inter showed willingness from the start to keep her lines high, but also to take risks with build-up from her defense. THE City at the same time, whenever he found space, he tried to catch the Nerazzurri disorganized, as he did in the 6th minute, but Bernardo Silva’s cross went wide. Haaland was fighting a lot between Inter’s three stoppers and looked alone, De Bruyne, Grealis were well closed and the Nerazzurri were putting a lot of effort into their game Dimarco, Dumfriestrying to take advantage of their speed.

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THE Injagi he had excellently read his… counterpart, Pep, with Inter easily taking the lead in the 20th minute, but also having a good moment with Brozovic’s shot that went wide. As the rest of the half passed with relative ease, with City not having the momentum and freshness of other matches. The best moment for the “Citizens” came in the 27th minute when Haaland put his back Stick and shot from the side and left through the area to take it out Onanawhile two minutes after his place De Bruyne it was weak. This was also the last time the Milanese defense felt the Belgian, since for the second consecutive final (as in the one in 2021 with Chelsea) he left with an injury problem, giving his place to Foden.

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The loss of De Bruyne looked pivotal for City, but they could potentially be energized by Foden’s entry. With the Inter to take out the first part unscathed and with characteristic comfort, partially controlling it even after she did not allow her opponent to impose her rhythm. Inter came into the second half better, had a clearer mind and came out in a more correct way in attack that looked… asleep, with the Nerazzurri watching the Jacko to leave with a problem and Lukakus to take his place.

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In fact, two minutes later Inter had a huge chance to open the scoring when City’s defense made a terrible mistake, Lautaro went out to the side four-a-four and instead of passing to Lukaku, he decided to finish the phase himself with Ederson expels.

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City continued to control the tempo but not create clear-cut chances, however they took advantage of Inter’s only defensive mistake of the match. In the 68th minute, after Akanji’s cross, Bernardo Silva made the counter-turn with the ball laying on the unmarked Rodri who, with an amazing place on the move, executed Onana for 1-0.

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The final was on fire and there was almost half an hour of stoppage time left to find out the European champion, with Simone Inzaghi’s players giving their all until the final, reaching the equalizer on several occasions. In the 71st minute, Di Marco saw his first header hit the crossbar and his second over Lukaku, while seven minutes later City almost sealed the match, but Fonten, after a superb individual effort, failed to perfectly place the Onana.

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Inter gave it their all in the final, got too high up the pitch and put too much pressure on City who held the cup in their hands tooth and nail. Of course, for Guardiola’s team to win the first trophy in its history, Ederson also had to put his hand in because initially in the 88th minute, even instinctively, he took out Lukaku’s header from two meters away, while in the 6th minute of stoppage time he had a terrific reaction to D’Ambrosio’s spinning header as he caught Inter players coming from behind to score. With Marciniak then blowing the final whistle and… redeeming Manchester City and Pep Guardiola.

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MVP: Rodri could be because of the goal, but if it wasn’t for Anderson with three big interventions (57′, 88′, 96′) now we would be talking differently. The Brazilian rightly takes the title of his top match, although surely the… top is Pep Guardiola with City’s historic treble.

The whistle: Marciniak didn’t make the big mistake, he tried to let the match play out enough and didn’t whistle enough. It helped with the way he played so there was a good pace, he didn’t get the looks or the… voices.