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Manchester City has been the favorite for the Champions League for the last few seasons. They spent a lot of money and built a strong team. Also the performance of this team was excellent. Even then they failed to win the Champions League title. This team is in excellent form this season as well. And compared to the previous seasons, they are playing better this year. The players are also very confident. Hopefully, luck will be with Manchester City this time. Manchester City will not make the same mistakes as in previous seasons.

Yes, in general, everything makes sense and even bookmakers are betting on Manchester City's victory odds of 1.7 vs. 7 for Inter. Everyone expects City to win and it should be the easiest final for them. The main thing for the players to withstand such pressure when everyone expects City's players to win with almost 100% confidence and this can play into Inter's hands. Inter know how to play from defense like no one else, and Lowtaro Martinez and Lukaku can basically create chances alone and realize them.

But of course I believe in City's victory this time more than ever.

This season I don't have the slightest doubt about Manchester City's first Champions League title. Manchester City's run to the final has been great and they should have won more titles than Inter.

Even though I have no doubts about Manchester City, Inter are also a dangerous team. There are several players to watch out for because they are of sufficient quality and have the potential to ruin Manchester City's winning plan in the final. Lautaro Martínez is one of them, of course because he is one of the most productive players so far as a striker. Lautaro Martínez is a striker who has scored 21 goals for Inter this season in Serie A, he has only failed to become top scorer as Victor Osimhen has 5 goals more.

Manchester City probably deserved to win the Champions League a long time ago, and several times already, but all the time the trophy has passed them by. Now Manchester City is probably the strongest team in the world, with an excellent balanced squad, where almost every player can be replaced and the team will not notice it. Perhaps only the absence of De Bruyne and Haaland can somehow weaken the game, but still Manchester City won without them.

I would also like to note that Inter at one time knocked everyone out in the Champions League when they won the Champions League in the season of 2010, when they were coached by Mourinho and Wesley Sneijder was shining there. So there is no need to write off Inter completely, although now Inter's squad is not as "star".