This Saturday, Manchester City and Inter Milan will face off in the Champions League final, where the English are looking for an unprecedented trophy against an Italian team that already has three “ears” in its history.
At Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium, newly proclaimed three-time English champions, including Portugal’s Ruben Dias and Bernardo Silva, have a second opportunity for the first time to lift the trophy that eluded them in the 2020/21 season when they lost a decision to Chelsea, at the Estadio do Dragao .
Having won the Premier League and FA Cup this season, City are now looking for the treble that only Manchester United achieved in England in 1998/99. Leipzig in the round of 16, Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals and trophy winner Real Madrid in the semi-finals.
Inter Milan, on the other hand, “survived” Group C, in which Bayern and Barcelona were rivals, and later became the “executioner” of two Portuguese teams: Porto in the 1/8 finals and Benfica in “quarters”, in addition to the fact that they overtook the eternal rival “Milan” in the “half”.
Although the Nerazzurri reach the Champions decision with less favoritism than Manchester City, they show a much richer track record than the opposition, given that they have already won the main European club competition three times: in 1963/64, 1964. /65 (against Benfica), both in the old European Cup and in the 2009/10 season under the command of the Portuguese José Mourinho.
Manchester City and Inter Milan will play from 20:00 (Lisbon time) at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, in a match headed by Pole Szymon Marchiniak.