The UCL triumph is a special one for the blues since this is their first title in Europe’s elite competition.
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Manchester City could not have wished for a better ending to the Premier League season after winning an incredible treble. The blue half of Manchester first got their hands on the Premier League trophy and followed it by winning the FA Cup and the Champions League titles. The UCL triumph is a special one for the blues since this is their first title in Europe’s elite competition. Man City had edged Inter Milan 1-0 to lift the coveted trophy.
Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, was understandably over the moon with the victory. He also believed it was “written in the stars” for them to get the trophy. “Sometimes it looks like this competition this year, this final was written in the stars. The goal, the chances they had. Ederson’s save where in extra-time you could lose the game. I will be the same person and we will be the same team and we will be the same Club,” he was quoted by the club’s website.
“Today was our year, but in the past to do it of course we are incredibly satisfied to achieve something unique, the Treble for this club. The feeling I have right now is we leave the Champions League and give credit to the five Premier Leagues. In seven years, two FA Cups, four Carabao Cups, Community Shields. That gives credit to what we have done.”
Guardiola also spoke about how a team requires luck in certain situations to get over the line. “We have to win Europe to be considered one of the really good teams and we win it. Suffering, you could expect it because Inter is an exceptional team. Physicality that battles to win. Sometimes you need this type of luck that in the past, against Tottenham and in other games, the final against Chelsea, we didn’t have it. Today we had it,” he stated.
Even though Guardiola is happy with Manchester City winning their first Champions League title, he does not want the team to disappear after this triumph. “Now we have the first and the people can say ‘Manchester City have already the first Champions League’. But I don’t want after one Champions League to disappear,” he added.
“So, we have to work harder in the next few years, next season and be there. There are teams who win the Champions League after one or two seasons and disappear. We have to avoid it. Knowing where we’ve been this is not going to happen. But in the same time I have to admit it is a big relief for the Club, and for everyone we have this trophy.”
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