The wait is over. Twelve long years of disappointment, painful defeats, suffering and criticism have passed. Pep Guardiola finally got his hands on the Champions League trophy again and made history. He brought Manchester City the triple crown and introduced them to the company of only seven clubs who managed to do the same before him, but he also made the history of football, becoming the only coach with two trebles.Manchester City join Manchester United as the only English men’s teams to win the treble 🙃 pic.twitter.com/7pUeqIZR5T— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 10, 2023 He managed to silence the critics. But he doesn’t seem to be interested in that at the moment.”Does this change anything? Am I smarter? Am I a better coach? What if Ederson hadn’t saved that shot? You can say what you want, but the most important thing is that we’re here. We don’t want to win the Champions League and then disappear forever. You have to be here consistently, seven or eight years. It’s our turn, just like it could have been our turn two years ago. If we haven’t won the Champions League before, it means the opponents were very strong. If people think we will be different now that we have won the Champions League, they are mistaken. This f*****g trophy it is so difficult to win” Guardiola emphasized after the match.MANCHESTER CITY WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!And that is what is most important to Guardiola, that his team repeats itself again and again in the final of the Champions League, just like the masters of the competition, Real Madrid. The former Barcelona coach took the opportunity to make a joke.”We are now only 13 Champions League trophies away from Real. Only 13. Let Real be on their guard because we are coming for them! If they are sleeping, we will catch them. We can’t to compare with them. We just won the first trophy but I don’t want us to disappear after the first one. We have to work hard and next season be here again. There are teams that win the Champions League and then disappear after one, two seasons. We have to avoid that . Knowing ourselves, it’s not going to happen to us, but it’s a big relief for the club to have won this trophy, because now they won’t be asking me if we’re going to win the Champions League. Now they’ll have to find another question” said the Spaniard.PLAYER RATINGS Versatile Rodri and Stones for the cherry on top, Lukaku’s sitters are here to stayEven thou they were the biggest outsider in recent years, Inter didn’t disappoint and certainly didn’t surprise Guardiola, who also had a message to his counterpart Simeone Inzaghi.“I expected this kind of Inter. When you have a goalkeeper like Onana who knows perfectly where to stand, with Calhanoglu and Barrella, strikers who hold the ball well and distribute it, it was very, very difficult. It might be a little easier without this goalkeeper, but it would still be very difficult. They are also physically very strong. Winning this trophy is so difficult. It couldn’t be otherwise and we knew it, primarily because Inter are really good. Congratulations to them, what a good team! I say that as a winner, but I would have said the same if we had lost. They absolutely deserved to be here and I knew it would be a tough match. This competition, it’s like a coin toss, it’s so uncertain. We could have easily conceded a goal and gone to extra time… It was as if this season was written in the stars, we had to win the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history. I would just like to tell Simeone that right now he feels what we felt two years ago and he has to understand that he has the second best team in Europe. When you have a team like that, it’s an extremely high level. They will be here again. This is sport, someone has to lose and someone else has to win” said Guardiola.##NAJAVA_MECA_7312223##
