UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season

[Bananington]

One thing unique about Manchester city beating Bayern Munich and Real Madrid on their road to the finals is the way they did it. At both occasions they damaged the two clubs by scoring them alots of goals and made the giant clubs look little. They did the same thing they would had down to a smaller clubs to the big guys of the champions league and that just shows how talented Manchester city is.

Manchester City have the storyline to currently intimidate any other team regardless of any old record they have. Their players are very good and very confident in their abilities. The coach is also very good and knows the exact players that every game needs. They have a better chance and unstoppable in the Champions League final. If the Manchester City players don't get overconfident that winning Inter Milan is already a job done then they can actually do the job. But if overconfidence gets in, they can make mistakes that would hurt them.

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[Leviathan.007]

it's too naive if they should be afraid now because if they are not too confident just with the condition of Manchester City who put the ball in at a very fast time they indirectly give up and I think that doesn't reflect a big club.
Now, even though Manchester City is the favorite, they still have to face it because there really is no other way. If indeed they still intend to have the same goal for the treble as Manchester City's goal, then they must be able to play well, even if they are not too favorite.

I think Inter Milan is a big team that has a long history in the Champions League. So it's not a strong benchmark if Inter Milan will experience fear over because Manchester City managed to get the FA Cup Trophy. There is even a strong gap if Inter milan has a strength that is difficult for everyone to guess in the Final Match later. Simone Inzaghi does not yet have a career history in the Champions League which is quite impressive in his career. Even I don't think he can be underestimated because he managed to bring Inter Milan to the Final has shown that he is one of the quite sensational coaches this season. Apart from that, Simone Inzaghi was able to make Inter Milan under his control this season, becoming a team that his opponents really feared.

In this case, I believe that these two teams have their own characteristics in their playing patterns, especially with the atmosphere of the final match, of course it will be quite difficult to predict who will goal first in this match.

As what I said before. In terms of current probabilities, Inter is indeed a big club and of course we cannot hide the fact that it is still a club that cannot be underestimated.
But on the other hand, of course we also have to be aware that even though in this case Inter is a big club, still Manchester City can be said to be bigger than that so that Mancehster City is indeed the real thing in this final.
On the other hand, but in this case there is also no reason that Inter should give up before fighting because they fought from the group phase to the final this time it took a big struggle so it would be too naive if they just gave up for now because it's really a shame if they play hard from the start but had to give up easily just because the opponent was stronger than them in favourites

Man city is the favorite to when the finals due to the fact that they are well prepared for the game. We saw this in their performance last weekend in FA cup finals against Man united. This shows that they will win Inter in the finals. The moment Man have started winning,nothing can decline their performance. Inter is also a good club but I don't think that they will be able to defeat city because they are not prepared for the victory. If they can hold city to penalty shoot out,then I see hope for Inter in winning the finals.

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

But I can't be sure about it and I think there is a possibility for Inter Milan to win this game against Manchester City and since Inter Milan's completely unstable situation in some games they were performing very well recently I won't be surprised if I see them winning this game.
However, with the experience I know from Guardiola he is not a coach to get into traps and he knows how to beat Inter Milan and Inzaghi in the final match.

[asriloni]

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

There are so many metricts that will be greatly affecting the performance from the club but my concern was on the starting line up. In my opinion that if manchester city gonna use same line ups like when it was facing manchester united in the final of FA cup.
Intermilan can learn from manchester united. Intermilan just need to be even better in the defensive line compared with manchester united.

Im sure that if intermilan gonna use lukaku instead of dzeko as this guy is always able helping team mates to give free space while he was holding one or more players on his line.

He was having capability to make it even better compared with haaland in term of holding its opponents and make its team mates get free space.

[Prince Malik]

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

There are so many metricts that will be greatly affecting the performance from the club but my concern was on the starting line up. In my opinion that if manchester city gonna use same line ups like when it was facing manchester united in the final of FA cup.
Intermilan can learn from manchester united. Intermilan just need to be even better in the defensive line compared with manchester united.

Im sure that if intermilan gonna use lukaku instead of dzeko as this guy is always able helping team mates to give free space while he was holding one or more players on his line.

He was having capability to make it even better compared with haaland in term of holding its opponents and make its team mates get free space.

I don't think we can compare between fa cup final and UCL final, no matter what the line up will be i believe the club will have better motivation and will be more realistic against inter Milan, i believe inter mission will be very complicated and they should focus on the defense if they want to make the surprise and get the trophy

[Juggy777]

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

There are so many metricts that will be greatly affecting the performance from the club but my concern was on the starting line up. In my opinion that if manchester city gonna use same line ups like when it was facing manchester united in the final of FA cup.
Intermilan can learn from manchester united. Intermilan just need to be even better in the defensive line compared with manchester united.

Im sure that if intermilan gonna use lukaku instead of dzeko as this guy is always able helping team mates to give free space while he was holding one or more players on his line.

He was having capability to make it even better compared with haaland in term of holding its opponents and make its team mates get free space.

I don't think we can compare between fa cup final and UCL final, no matter what the line up will be i believe the club will have better motivation and will be more realistic against inter Milan, i believe inter mission will be very complicated and they should focus on the defense if they want to make the surprise and get the trophy

@Prince Malik I too believe that Inter will try and hurt City on the counter but City have gotten themselves under unnecessary pressure with the talks of winning the treble and sometimes player’s can underperform due to such pressure. Furthermore people are definitely underestimating Inter and thus if Inter can take a lead then it’ll become very interesting to watch and hopefully they can then go on to win the match too.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

That's gonna be a very big achievement for lukaku if he will able to take the trophy that is one step away from his face. City has become the biggest wall for intermilan to win it right now. I know that will not be an easy task to beat manchester city. Even mostly people thought that if intermilan has very small chance to win against city caused by city has owned the best squads in the world right now. It will be disappointed if lukaku will be missing UCL trophy caused by it's one of his dream.

Lukaku is a very strong man in mentality that helped him to survive through many challenges in his career. From Anderlecht, Chelsea, West Brom, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Inter Milan, he has many chaos in his career. There are some seasons when Lukaku was under deep mud at Chelsea (two times), Manchester United and even Inter Milan with this season.

However we can not deny that Lukaku is a very dangerous striker when he is in form when his strength covers all his weaknesses. If he can win Champions League, we should congratulate him about that but if he won't, I don't feel any regret. Even Ronaldo Brazil, Ibrahimovic, Totti did not win Champions League and frankly Lukaku is far in quality than those legendary players.

@Prince Malik I too believe that Inter will try and hurt City on the counter but City have gotten themselves under unnecessary pressure with the talks of winning the treble and sometimes player’s can underperform due to such pressure. Furthermore people are definitely underestimating Inter and thus if Inter can take a lead then it’ll become very interesting to watch and hopefully they can then go on to win the match too.

If you are eligible to play in a big final match like Champions League, you are due want to play it, enjoy it and surely want to win it. All clubs play in a final match do want to win it to lift the trophy. Inter Milan would be the same but they will have to overcome themselves first, exceed their normal performance to beat a strong opposition like Manchester City.

It will be a very big test for Inter Milan but if they go through it successfully, they will be a very memorable Champions League winner by beating one of strongest clubs in Europe latest years and in this season.

[Prince Malik]

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

There are so many metricts that will be greatly affecting the performance from the club but my concern was on the starting line up. In my opinion that if manchester city gonna use same line ups like when it was facing manchester united in the final of FA cup.
Intermilan can learn from manchester united. Intermilan just need to be even better in the defensive line compared with manchester united.

Im sure that if intermilan gonna use lukaku instead of dzeko as this guy is always able helping team mates to give free space while he was holding one or more players on his line.

He was having capability to make it even better compared with haaland in term of holding its opponents and make its team mates get free space.

I don't think we can compare between fa cup final and UCL final, no matter what the line up will be i believe the club will have better motivation and will be more realistic against inter Milan, i believe inter mission will be very complicated and they should focus on the defense if they want to make the surprise and get the trophy

@Prince Malik I too believe that Inter will try and hurt City on the counter but City have gotten themselves under unnecessary pressure with the talks of winning the treble and sometimes player’s can underperform due to such pressure. Furthermore people are definitely underestimating Inter and thus if Inter can take a lead then it’ll become very interesting to watch and hopefully they can then go on to win the match too.

Not just normal football fans but also bookmakers, the ods are extremely in man cit favour and i never expected to see such odds to be honest, i looked for previous finals and the ods was never being like this in a champoins league final

[BRINIRHA]

Maybe not many people talk about it. namely about the meeting of these two teams in a match on the field. Because there is very little information about it. Because Man City vs Inter Milan have never even had a match meeting in the near future.

And the last meeting of these two teams was on July 31, 2011 in the Super Cup competition. And at that time Man City managed to win with a score of 3-0. I know this meeting cannot be used as any reference for the final match later. but I want to see history in the meeting of these two teams. There are at least 2 encounters that I found. and one of the others in a friendly match in 2010 And Inter Milan won the match with a score of 3-0.

And now the two teams meet again after 12 years of not meeting on the field. And the meeting between the two is in a special place, namely in the Final match to fight for the UCL Trophy this season.

[asriloni]

I don't think we can compare between fa cup final and UCL final, no matter what the line up will be i believe the club will have better motivation and will be more realistic against inter Milan, i believe inter mission will be very complicated and they should focus on the defense if they want to make the surprise and get the trophy

We can't but we will able to take it as a reliable data to determine which line up that will be used by manchester city against intermilan. I think that there will be no different and the only change that will happen on the goal keeper of manchester city.
It seems like that final UCL gonna be the last match from gundogan with manchester city. Inter has some good stats in the defensive line. Im not feeling doubt if intermilan will able to create a very good defensive line.

I saw that if bastoni was interesting to copy rudiger's trick against haaland. Bastoni has been preparing everything to stop haaland at any cost. I hope that bastoni itself will able to do that and then his teammate will able to guard haaland's friends.

That being said that if haaland needs to be guarded only with a defender. It will make city's attacking line has no room to launch attack.
There's no need to use more than 1 player to guarded haaland.

[TheGreatPython]

In this Champions League final match we will see both teams score. But Manchester City is obviously going to be a lot more ruthless compared to Inter. My prediction the result is going to be a 3-1 win for Manchester City. All of us are expecting Manchester City to win this match. I just hope that Manchester City do not take this match lightly at all. After all, this is the final of the Champions League competition. Both of the teams are in the finals because they deserve to be. The only way Manchester City is going to lose this match is if they underestimate their opponent.

Too many predictions about final of the Champions League with Manchester City is clearly hot favourite in this final even we all know this is going to be high pressure game with both teams will give their best for the win and any result is possible because Champions League have history of surprises and shocking results like we have Real Madrid champions in last season with no one expecting them as champions in early rounds, but they won double right now Manchester City is clearly leading from all way but still Inter can change the momentum and also can break hearts of Citizens which could be surely disastrous for them and their fans.

Even I am also favouring them for this title and also completing their treble but still it's never been easy while we will all have perfect results on ground.

[tusandii]

Inter Milan tasks will be defending as best as possible, making Manchester City players become as most confident as possible but at the same time more careless defense when the match goes on. If the match has a draw result temporarily, a later a match goes on, a bigger chance for Inter Milan.

It seems that this is unlikely to happen because during this season Manchester City has played well and has a strong line of attack and defense, even Manchester City this season have never conceded more than 1 goal during the match in the round of 16 until the Champions League final later.
This proves that their defense is better than Inter Milan and in every game Manchester City can win the game easily.
I'm not sure Inter Milan will be able to compete with Manchester City in the final.
If there is a draw until the end of the match then Manchester City's chances are even greater because they have players who are very accurate when they have to take a penalty kick, moreover they have a great goalkeeper, Ederson Moraes.

It is highly probable that Manchester City will secure victory in the Champions League final. And if this is true Manchester City will be able to set a world record, as securing three titles in a row in the same season is a remarkable feat.

Yes, it's true that this will be a good achievement for Manchester City if it really can have a championship trophy in the Champions League and get 3 titles.
Not only that, Pep Guardiola as a coach also a title because he managed to become a coach who led his team to win 3 leagues in one season.
We'll see and hopefully what we hope for Manchester City they can actually achieve.

[wiss19]

Inter Milan is a team that I didn't hope to see in a final against the likes of Manchester City. In fact, I would have preferred to watch Arsenal Vs Manchester City again. Although, Arsenal haven't been able to find there way into the champions league until this season. Still, Inter isn't that team as, the game looks finished from the semi finals after Manchester City did beat Real Madrid.
The finals is going to look less of a finals by my speculation. Inter is no match for a hungry Manchester City and like we have now, its going to be a run through. Should Inter Milan resolve to a more defensive style of play, the most they could do is damage control but still, its victory for Manchester City.

Soccer is game of unpredictable results and surprises with no one can predict what is going to happen in next moment just like this no one was expecting Intermilan will be in final of the UEFA Champions Leagues against Manchester City, but they achieve this after beating few top teams in this event even their season in Serie A is not as expected but still they have done good performance and have 3rd spot and now going to face Manchester City in final of the Champions League with on their day they can achieve better result.

Manchester City is surely currently one of the best club in world with their available sources and also having great hard work by Pepe in last few years but still things can go in any way while they are looking for the first title of their history if they are able to won against Intermilan after beating Manchester United into FA Cup their confidence level is high for having treble into this season.

[Sebas.tian]

Maybe not many people talk about it. namely about the meeting of these two teams in a match on the field. Because there is very little information about it. Because Man City vs Inter Milan have never even had a match meeting in the near future.

And the last meeting of these two teams was on July 31, 2011 in the Super Cup competition. And at that time Man City managed to win with a score of 3-0. I know this meeting cannot be used as any reference for the final match later. but I want to see history in the meeting of these two teams. There are at least 2 encounters that I found. and one of the others in a friendly match in 2010 And Inter Milan won the match with a score of 3-0.

Based on what Manchester city has demonstrated in some of the competition in this season, showed that this match will not going to be a tough match because Inter Milan don't have the strength to stop Manchester city not to embrace this UCL trophy. If Manchester city coach can make all the players that participated In the FA cup trophy to play this UCL final, I believe they will definitely achieve victory from Inter Milan because their strikers have the skills of achieving goals in any competition. I think, this match will end up 3-1 for the favour of Manchester city because they are well organized in this season to defeat any strong teams which they will definitely apply it in this final battle.

[abhiseshakana]

I don't doubt Manchester City will win this final either, but it's football and it's only one game. The result could turn out to be the opposite of what was expected. For example a red card or a penalty. Inter are not a weak team either and have played well in recent games. I think this final will be very interesting.

There are so many metricts that will be greatly affecting the performance from the club but my concern was on the starting line up. In my opinion that if manchester city gonna use same line ups like when it was facing manchester united in the final of FA cup.
Intermilan can learn from manchester united. Intermilan just need to be even better in the defensive line compared with manchester united.

Im sure that if intermilan gonna use lukaku instead of dzeko as this guy is always able helping team mates to give free space while he was holding one or more players on his line.

He was having capability to make it even better compared with haaland in term of holding its opponents and make its team mates get free space.

Just one step away for Man City to realize the treble winner and I think they have a pretty good chance of making that happen. They just got their second trophy, and the victory against Man United should have further boosted their morale and confidence. It's just that they also have to realize that Inter Milan is not an easy opponent to beat. As long as Man City plays like they have been doing so far and they are not burdened with the final atmosphere, I think they will be able to beat Inter Milan.

[shogun47]

I believe that the game against Manchester United in the FA Cup showed both the strength of Manchester City and especially their midfielders, but also the chance for the opponent to play attacks till the end.

Manchester City have many star players who have played together in many seasons. They digested the philosophy of Pep Guardiola very well too and they are actually a very solid strong team, not only from midfield. Their whole system can play with very high ball possession and in good days, Manchester City don't let the opposition have enough time to breath and in such matches, chances for counter attacks from oppositions is so low.

Inter does have a few guys on board who know how to dribble quickly and they have offenders that are in good form.

Inter Milan don't need to chase the ball and aim at ball possession because it is the strength of Manchester City. They only need their players to find each other within 2 or 3 passes for their counter attacking. It is a very challenging task for Inter Milan players but if their players can find each other in counter attacking, Manchester City will be in danger.

One thing is for sure and that is that Manchester City will have more chances than Inter, but with efficiency Inter is able to shock Manchester City in that game the same way that Manchester United could have shocked them if the last chance hit the target.

Inter Milan tasks will be defending as best as possible, making Manchester City players become as most confident as possible but at the same time more careless defense when the match goes on. If the match has a draw result temporarily, a later a match goes on, a bigger chance for Inter Milan.

This sums it up pretty well and if you want to put it into just a few words, those few words be "they must not concede an early goal". That would open the box for the Manchester City in all regards conceivable. Ball possession, counter attacking themselves, taking time off the clock with 20-30 contacts in a row and no pressure at all at that moment. Inter would have to throw their tactic aboard at some point in time and there is never the right moment to open up against Manchester City. I think this duel is going to be very tactical and Manchester City will press, but only modestly without facing too much counter attack potential. I can't actually wait for the game to start.

[bering]

Maybe not many people talk about it. namely about the meeting of these two teams in a match on the field. Because there is very little information about it. Because Man City vs Inter Milan have never even had a match meeting in the near future.

And the last meeting of these two teams was on July 31, 2011 in the Super Cup competition. And at that time Man City managed to win with a score of 3-0. I know this meeting cannot be used as any reference for the final match later. but I want to see history in the meeting of these two teams. There are at least 2 encounters that I found. and one of the others in a friendly match in 2010 And Inter Milan won the match with a score of 3-0.

And now the two teams meet again after 12 years of not meeting on the field. And the meeting between the two is in a special place, namely in the Final match to fight for the UCL Trophy this season.

These meetings statistics cannot be used anymore because whether it Inter or Manchester City currently have different squads and also different coaches but we can used some data such as their recent performance or squad conditions to predict the outcomes from this match although these method cannot be guarantee 100% accurate because it is depend on the performance of the team while playing at the final match later and indeed with their strength obviously Manchester City has good chances to get their first trophy from this competition but hopefully Guardiola wouldn't do the same mistakes just like from his previous final match on 2021 and at that time Manchester City as the favourite but they were failed to win from Chelsea because lose 1-0 from Havertz goal

[swogerino]

Maybe not many people talk about it. namely about the meeting of these two teams in a match on the field. Because there is very little information about it. Because Man City vs Inter Milan have never even had a match meeting in the near future.

And the last meeting of these two teams was on July 31, 2011 in the Super Cup competition. And at that time Man City managed to win with a score of 3-0. I know this meeting cannot be used as any reference for the final match later. but I want to see history in the meeting of these two teams. There are at least 2 encounters that I found. and one of the others in a friendly match in 2010 And Inter Milan won the match with a score of 3-0.

And now the two teams meet again after 12 years of not meeting on the field. And the meeting between the two is in a special place, namely in the Final match to fight for the UCL Trophy this season.

These meetings statistics cannot be used anymore because whether it Inter or Manchester City currently have different squads and also different coaches but we can used some data such as their recent performance or squad conditions to predict the outcomes from this match although these method cannot be guarantee 100% accurate because it is depend on the performance of the team while playing at the final match later and indeed with their strength obviously Manchester City has good chances to get their first trophy from this competition but hopefully Guardiola wouldn't do the same mistakes just like from his previous final match on 2021 and at that time Manchester City as the favourite but they were failed to win from Chelsea because lose 1-0 from Havertz goal

We have a completely different Manchester City this time,a team that have never lost a game in the Champions League this season if I am not mistaken.Beside that they have crushed without mercy two of the strongest teams like Bayern Munchen who had 0 lost games before this encounter in Champions also and then Real Madrid,one of the strongest contenders.Based on this Manchester City is a heavy favorite this time as the odd shows of less than 1.50 for a final.Inter Milan can only hope for a miracle in this game but miracles do happen from time to time  .

[Patrol69]

Maybe not many people talk about it. namely about the meeting of these two teams in a match on the field. Because there is very little information about it. Because Man City vs Inter Milan have never even had a match meeting in the near future.

And the last meeting of these two teams was on July 31, 2011 in the Super Cup competition. And at that time Man City managed to win with a score of 3-0. I know this meeting cannot be used as any reference for the final match later. but I want to see history in the meeting of these two teams. There are at least 2 encounters that I found. and one of the others in a friendly match in 2010 And Inter Milan won the match with a score of 3-0.

And now the two teams meet again after 12 years of not meeting on the field. And the meeting between the two is in a special place, namely in the Final match to fight for the UCL Trophy this season.

Manchester City and Inter Milan last met in 2011 and in that match Manchester City won by 3-0 margin then 12 years have passed since these 12 teams have not played any match against each other so I think we have to discard past statistics. We have to make the final match prediction based on how the two teams are currently performing.  

Manchester City are at their best. Manchester City have won three of their last five matches, drawn one match and lost one match to Brentford while Inter Milan have won four of their last five matches and lost one match.  

Considering the current statistics, it is going to be a tough competition between the two teams.

[Docnaster]

We have a completely different Manchester City this time,a team that have never lost a game in the Champions League this season if I am not mistaken.Beside that they have crushed without mercy two of the strongest teams like Bayern Munchen who had 0 lost games before this encounter in Champions also and then Real Madrid,one of the strongest contenders.Based on this Manchester City is a heavy favorite this time as the odd shows of less than 1.50 for a final.Inter Milan can only hope for a miracle in this game but miracles do happen from time to time  .

I actually know that in football we do not do without history of both teams that are to play together. But in this case of the Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan. I choose not to look at the history because any history we look at is not current and the Manchester City team we used to know in 2013, 2010 etc is not the Manchester City team we have now in 2023. There is a very big difference in the team mentality and team form.

[Ahli38]

We have a completely different Manchester City this time,a team that have never lost a game in the Champions League this season if I am not mistaken.Beside that they have crushed without mercy two of the strongest teams like Bayern Munchen who had 0 lost games before this encounter in Champions also and then Real Madrid,one of the strongest contenders.Based on this Manchester City is a heavy favorite this time as the odd shows of less than 1.50 for a final.Inter Milan can only hope for a miracle in this game but miracles do happen from time to time  .

I actually know that in football we do not do without history of both teams that are to play together. But in this case of the Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan. I choose not to look at the history because any history we look at is not current and the Manchester City team we used to know in 2013, 2010 etc is not the Manchester City team we have now in 2023. There is a very big difference in the team mentality and team form.

And indeed the records of the meeting several years ago will not be able to be used as material for any analysis for this match. Because even when Manchester City met Inter Milan in the past, there were conditions that were completely different from now. In fact, we also know that now Manchester City is also owned by a different owner and since Manchester City changed ownership and since then Manchester City has turned into a rich club and also has amazing players and coaches. so what we need to pay attention to right now is Manchester City's performance this season which has far improved compared to last season. And I'm also sure that in the end Pep Guardiola will be able to present the Champions League trophy for Manchester City this season. I do not underestimate Inter Milan. I only measure Man City's strength based on existing statistics and compared to Inter Milan's strength.