Manchester City – Chelsea, Prediction – Champions League

⏩ City lives for this match

Guardiola’s Man City is a team built over the years, gone through various stages, and ingeniously improved by the Spaniard. At the moment, the citizens are demonstrating the strongest football in the world and the consistency they show is, to put it mildly, impressive. The whole project, as soon as the sheiks came, however, aims for City to reach the big clubs by name, and that goes through winning the Champions League and dominating the tournament after that. The citizens showed weaknesses in key moments in most times against weaker teams during the years in the tournament and dropped out of the elimination phase, although they were favorites. However, after the way they eliminated Dortmund and especially PSG, they now look really mature and fully ready to win the cup.

⚽ Chelsea have a long way to go

When Tuchel came to Chelsea, he changed some things in a short period of time. The defense was strengthened, the team began to dominate, it looked much fresher. Players like Azpilicueta, Rüdiger, who were not Lampard’s favorites, began to be starters in every game with the German. The Blues had a great 3 months with many clean sheets and a lot of key victories, which brought them to the top 4 and two finals, which they reached by passing through top teams. It reminds us a bit of Solskjaer’s first 15-20 games when he came to United. Then the Red Devils also had exceptional first months, they even eliminated PSG with the reserves in the Champions League, but to this day they do not have a trophy with the Norwegian. Returning to Chelsea, they had some difficulties with Lampard. Tuchel came and “plugged some holes”, but this did not solve any major problems in general, and accordingly the Blues began to fail again in recent weeks. We see a clear example of how a potentially top team can reach the final in the Champions League with a strong period covering exactly the elimination phase, but this team is far from complete and Tuchel is still facing serious questions for the coming seasons.

Sometimes we have to rely on logic

 Expert view: Two years ago, Liverpool easily beat Tottenham in the Champions League final, and honestly there is a possibility that something similar will happen this time in favor of City. At the moment, the sky blues have a unique defense, and Chelsea is simply not effective enough in attack and this is a huge problem. In addition, Guardiola has lost twice to Tuchel in recent months and for the third time, the Spaniard is unlikely to make a mistake in the most important match. We don’t write off Chelsea, and anything can happen in the final, but sometimes there is perfect logic in football and this time we will trust it. Prediction – Man City -0.5 Asian Handicap at 1.93.