An amazing year ended for her in the most fabulous way. Manchester. In the final, the “citizens” beat “Inter”. Champions Leaguewith a score of 1:0, lifting the prestigious European trophy for the first time in its history and at the same time winning the treble after the championship and the FA Cup.

Pep Guardiola’s team, which had been chasing the Champions League for the past 12 years but failed to do so, deservedly climbed to the top of Europe and became the second English club after Manchester United in 1989 to achieve a historic treble.

In doing so, they became the fourth English team to win the trophy after United (1999, 2008), Liverpool (2005, 2019) and Chelsea (2012, 2021). Thus, England became the country with the largest number of teams that became European champions.

Inter’s tactical plan had the English trapped in the first half, unable to move properly. Constant high pressure, all-court coverage, combined with the failure of Guardiola’s team, which saw their most organized player, De Bruyne, injured in the 36th minute, pushed the match and its pace to the nerazuri limit. Two good chances by Bernardo Silva (6 minutes) and Haaland (27 minutes) were not enough for City to take the lead.

The spectacle in the 2nd half improved, and errors in the defense of both played their role. In one of them, Alakdzi’s wrong turn on 57th, Inter were close to the goal, but Anderson deflected a cross from Lautaro Martinez.
In the first weakness of the Italians in the defense in the 68th minute, M. City scored Rodri, who, after a beautiful vertical pass from Akanji to Silva, took advantage of the opponent’s advantage and beat Onana with a powerful shot.

The Italians immediately tried to answer Dimarco, who hung his head high, sent the ball into the crossbar, and Lukaku’s partner blocked his shot on a rebound. The final turned out to be dramatic, the main character again became Lukaku, who in the 88th minute sent the ball to the feet of Ederson with a header into the empty net, and Dimarco headed in stoppage time.

M. CITY (Pepe Guardiola): Ederson, Diaz, Akanji, Ake, Stones (Walker, 82′), Rodri, Guidogan, Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne (Foden, 36′), Grealish, Haaland.
INTER (Simone Inzaghi): Onana, Darmian (Ambrosio 84), Acerbi, Bastoni (Gozens 76), Dumfries (Belanova 76), Barela, Brozovic, Tsalkhanoglu (Mikitaryan 84), Dimarco, Lautaro Martinez, Dzeko (57) ). Lukaku).