‘The pressure was there but this team is built to handle the pressure in the best possible way,’ said City captain Ilkay Gundogan.
ISTANBUL — Manchester City won the Champions League title for the first time by beating Inter Milan 1-0 in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium on Saturday.
While it is the first time City has won European soccer’s biggest club competition, it is a third Champions League crown for Pep Guardiola as a coach. City triumphed despite losing inspirational midfielder Kevin De Bruyne to an injury in the first half and star striker Erling Haaland having an unusually quiet evening, finally achieving its ambition of reaching the summit of European soccer — 15 years after Abu Dhabi’s ruling family transformed it into one of the richest teams in the world.
City’s winner came when Rodri collected Bernardo Silva’s cutback and fired through a crowded penalty box.Inter almost evened the score within minutes of that goal when Federico Dimarco hit the bar from close range.For all the talk of City’s superiority leading up to the game, it was won by the finest of margins.Had Dimarco not headed against the legs of the Belgium striker with the goal to aim at, Inter could have made an immediate reply to Rodri’s goal.
It was as if the nerves had got to Guardiola’s players. The weight of expectation felt like it was too much even at the end of a season when it has swept all rivals aside.
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