Champions League final: Man City

Turkey Man City face Inter Milan in the 2022-2023 Champions League final. The ball rolls at Ataturk Stadium at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 11.

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Man City are aiming for a historic treble after winning the Premier League and FA Cup double. Only Man Utd have achieved this in English football history, in 1999. Inter are only the fourth team in history to reach the Champions League final after losing their opening game, after AC Milan in 1994-95, Bayern in 1998-99 and Tottenham in 2018-19. All of these teams lost in the final.

The Italians have benefited greatly from being drawn in the easy knockout stages of this season's Champions League. They only had to overcome Porto, Benfica and Milan on their way to the final. Meanwhile, Man City's losers were Leipzig, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

Haaland (left) and Dzeko are the strikers expected to shine for Man City and Inter. Photo: Sun — Haaland (left) and Dzeko are the strikers expected to shine for Man City and Inter. Photo: *Sun*

Opta statistics also said that Man City's chance of winning is up to 65%, Inter's is only 16%, with a 19% chance of the two teams drawing and going into extra time. Supercomputer statistics FiveThirtyEight also said that Pep Guardiola's team's chance of winning the championship is up to 75%, three times higher than their opponents.

One factor that could make the match unpredictable is that the two teams have never met in a competitive match, the first time this has happened in a Champions League final since Milan and Liverpool in 2005. Guardiola said he had spent a lot of time studying Inter, over the past week, but would not want to "think too much".

In terms of form, if we exclude the 0-1 defeat to Brentford in the final round of the Premier League, which was just a formality, Pep Guardiola's team are unbeaten in 26 matches in all competitions. Inter have won 11 of their last 12 matches, but their opponents are not at the level of Man City.

Man City have the strongest squad, while Inter also welcome back centre-back Milan Skriniar and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Inter players who cannot play this match rarely get to play, such as defender Mattia Zanotti and midfielder Valentin Carboni who are busy playing in the U20 World Cup.

Xuan Binh

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