Spain international Rodri scored the game’s only goal in the 68th minute, contributing to a historic hat-trick for his side after the local league and FA Cup, repeating the feat of neighbors United in 1999 and Inter in 2010.
It is the first title for Manchester City in the second final game of their twelfth appearance in the Champions League competition, having lost to compatriots Chelsea 0-1 in 2021, and the second continental after the European Cup. European Cup winners in 1970.
And Manchester City deserved the title in sympathy with their marvelous career in this year’s edition, including their toppling of Germans Leipzig and Bayern Munich and Spanish champions Real Madrid in the Round of 16.
And Spanish City manager Pep Guardiola has finally managed to break the curse that has accompanied him in continental competition since he crowned his two titles with his former side Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, as he never hadn’t been able to during his time with Bayern Munich (2013). -2016) and with City since signing a contract with him in order to win it in the summer of 2016.
Rodri, who Guardiola paid the price for staying on the bench in the final game of the penultimate game against Chelsea, emerged as the star of the game and acted as the savior after the painful blow received by his team by injuring his Belgian international playmaker Kevin De Bruyne in the 36th minute.
City became the 23rd team to win the competition.
City settled the first official confrontation between them and Inter in their favor and deprived the Italian side of their fourth title in the competition after 1964, 1965 and 2010, inflicting a third defeat in the final of continental competition after 1967 and 1972.
Inter Milan turned out to be a strong game against Manchester City, who did not appear at their usual level and struggled to create chances in the face of the high pressure approached by the Italian team, who surprised everyone with his magnificent performance and his ability to follow the spirited attack of the English team.
Inter Milan could have scored more than one goal but for the brilliance of Manchester City’s Brazilian international goalkeeper Ederson, who saved more than one chance, especially in the last quarter of the match, as well as the crossbar that responded to defender Federico. Head of Demarco, but whose most striking remains the Argentinian international Lautaro Martinez in the 59th. The turning point of the match since City manages to open the scoring nine minutes later.
Inter consecrated the failure of Italian clubs in the last matches of the three continental competitions this season, while Roma fell to Seville, Spain, in the final of the European League, “Europa League”, and Fiorentina, at West Ham United, England. , in the Conference League final.
It is the fourth consecutive final match which ends in a victory of the champion by only one goal.
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