Final of the Champions League: Manchester City-Inter
The biggest in European football will be determined in the UEFA Champions League final at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium. The match between Manchester City and Inter will begin at 10:00 p.m. Polish referees will direct the fight.
The English team will be chasing their first title, and the Italian representative will be chasing their fourth title. Taking the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup to his museum in the 1969-1970 season; Manchester City, who played their first Cup 1 final against Chelsea in 2021, was defeated 1-0 from the field.
- 11 possible:
- City of Manchester: Ederson, Akanji, Dias, Walker, Rodri, Stones, Grealish, Ilkah, De Bruyne, Silva, Haaland.
Technical director: Pep Guardiola - Bury: Onana, Darmian, Acerbi, Bastoni, Barella, Brozovic, Dimarco, Hakan, Dumfries, Martinez, Dzeko.
Technical director: simone inzaghi - Broadcasting: TV8
- Judge: Szymon Marciniak
- Hour: 22.00
The Atatürk Olympic Stadium is ready for the Champions League final.
ENGLISH-ITALIAN SECOND FINAL
It will be the fourth time in Inter’s history (after 1964, 1965 and 2010) that they take the field for the championship. The Milan team won its last trophy in 2010 with the Eto’o team under the guidance of coach José Mourinho.
Due to the 2020 and 2021 pandemic and requests to play without an audience, Istanbul, which remains this year, will be the scene of the second Anglo-Italian final. In the 2005 final, Liverpool, which closed the first half trailing 3-0 against Milan, rallied 3-3 in the second half and won the cup with a series of penalties.
ILKAY OR HAKAN?
For the first time in history, a Turkish footballer will lift the biggest trophy in European football.
Hakan Calhanoglu
İlkay Gündoğan, the captain of Manchester City, who wears the jersey of the German team, and Hakan Çalhanoğlu, the captain of Inter, who also wears the armbands of our National Team, will compete against each other. This season, Ilkay 12 and Hakan 11 had 1 goal and 2 assists while playing in the Giants League games.
The number of Turkish footballers who qualified for the Champions League final increased to 6. Previously, Yıldıray Baştürk (Bayer Leverkusen, 2002), Hamit Altıntop (Bayen Munich, 2010), Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund, 2013) and Arda Turan (Atlético Madrid, 2014), they could not enjoy the cup because their teams lost the final. .
Ilkay Gundogan.
22 HAALAND TOGETHER
City won 7 out of 12 games, got 5 draws, undefeated. He scored 31 goals on 85 shots on goal; He conceded 5 goals. Team’s top scorer (52 goals in all competitions this season) Haaland: 12 goals. The Norwegian, who hit the net 5 times in the Leipzig game in the last 16 round of 16, became the fastest (25 games) and youngest player to reach 30 goals in the tournament.
Having turned 30 on his 22nd and 236th day, Haaland also buried Mbappé’s record of 22 years and 352 days.
Erling Haaland and Pep Guardiola
37 DZEKO ONE SIDE
Inter, one of the three greats of Italian football (along with Juventus and Milan), has 7 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses in 12 group games. The blue-blacks lost 2 times to Bayern Munich only in the first round group. He scored 19 goals on 57 hits; He scored 10 goals in his goal.
The top scorer for the Milanese team in the Champions League is the 37-year-old Bosnian Dzeko, who lifted the rival nets 4 times. Martínez and Lukaku also scored 3 goals each.
Ed Dzeko.
THE TRADITION OF THE ONLY GOAL
The number of goals in finals has decreased with the influence of modern football. The nets have been raised 2 times in 6 finals played since 2003, 3 times in 4 finals, 4 times in 3 finals, 5 times in 2 finals and 6 times in 1 final. While the last 3 finals (with goals scored in the first 60 minutes) ended 1-0, Bayern Munich in 2020, Chelsea in 2021 and Real Madrid in 2022 were proclaimed champions. The highest scoring final of the 21st century was played at the same Istanbul stadium in 2005.
Ball of the Champions League final.
72 THOUSAND FANS
UEFA announced that approximately 72,000 fans will follow the final. In the section where the north (Inter) and south (Manchester City) stands are located, there will be areas for fans. 447 volunteers will work in and around the stadium. 1,800 members of the media were accredited for the historic final match.
1.6 BILLION EUROS FINAL
The estimated market value of the players from the Manchester City and Inter squads, who will face each other in the final, is 1,000 million 584 million euros.
Celebrating their third consecutive championship in the English Premier League, which stands out as the most valuable league in the world, Manchester City has an estimated squad market value of 1.05 billion euros, according to Transfermarkt data. Inter, which finished third in Serie A of the Italian league, has a more modest squad value at 534.45 million euros.