Guardiola’s City is crowned in Europe with a goal from Rodrigo (1-0)

He Manchester City finally entered the small elite of the European champions. He entered led by the hand of Pep Guardiola, the coach who has changed football since he put on his coach’s tracksuit. He entered through a parabolic, clinical shot, from Rodriadjusted to a minimum space between a cloud of defenders and the left post of Onana.

The long path of the sky-blue club ended to be the sixth English club to be crowned king of the Europe that the British scorn and culminated the million-dollar investment of the Sheikh Mansour, who was seeing his club for the second time 13 years after the first. He closed off the pressing pressure he was submitting to. Pep Guardiola, demanded to revalidate the two titles he won with the unforgettable barca which he directed for four seasons. About to finish the seventh in Manchester, after having transformed the red of United that the city dyed to blue, he became the only coach to possess, among other feats (11 leagues out of 14 disputed), two League, Cup and Champions League trebles. half way, with City, of the Barça sextet that raised him to heaven in 2009.

magic hand

And there he goes up there, thanks to that fascinating hand to create a magical team, vulgar yesterday, always choral, with the telescopic shot of Rodri and the miraculous knee of Ederson who rejected a header from lukaku after the crossbar repelled a header from dimarco in the rush of Inter seeing themselves below on the scoreboard.

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It was the desperate reaction of the Italian team to see that the trophy slipped from their hands in the last quarter of an hour, when they really went for it, in the same way that the City could have finished off through Foden or of Haaland, the tournament’s top scorer who was never even seen until he was bleary-eyed at the end. Just like everyone else. Also Guardiola, so used to epic nights.

three losses out of three

Three Italian teams participated in the three European finals and all three succumbed. He Inter did not know how to force the destiny that previously condemned the Rome Yet the Fiorentina against the best and most influential coach in the world, capable of turning an ordinary club into England in a referent that has marked an era, even without signing the definitive masterpiece the day that the whole world looked towards Istanbul.

he did it guardiola with the eleven gala except Kyle Walker, who did not recover from a back ailment. With Akehe City repeated seven players from the 2021 final. Among them kevin debruynewhich then collided with a rock called rudiger and this time he suffered a subtle but devastating tear in the hamstrings of his right thigh that forced him to retire after one last race in which he verified the physical incapacity to remain in the field. Foden, starter in Porto, he took his place without changing the structure of City in the core area, the three behind and the three in front fixed with Rodri in the middle.

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maximum suffering

This City It was another one that lost to him Chelsea, more evolved in its internal interactions even though it brings together four power stations of which one, stones, works indoors. Nothing to do with Xavi or Iniesta, champions with Pep in two finals that had nothing to do with the one in Istanbul either. nor the one of Istanbul of 2023 with that of 2005, when at halftime three goals had been counted. All Italian. Of the Milan.

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suffered as much or more Pep that in the final lost. Rodri was placed in the command post that he only abandoned a couple of times -he advanced a few meters to score the goal-, while Stones, Gundogan and Foden They were trying to destabilize Inter from within. Little did City look for the ends attached to the band to widen the field. Especially on the right, where Stones was located, the least gifted to combine, and the least pressured by Inter, with each player jumping to his pair and forcing an exit from behind on the left with Ake.

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Consecrated to controlling a game without the ball, Inzaghi’s team only looked into the penalty area Ederson in the indecisions of the Brazilian goalkeeper with his foot during the first half. The body of Ederson deflected a selfish shot from Lautaro who took the ball in a monumental light blue error that kneeled guardiola crying out for mercy and the hand deflected the last attempt to Gosens.