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UCL Final Reaction: How Manchester City beat Inter Milan

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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City's Preparation in the First Half

Manchester City's four first half shots tied their third fewest in any of their 61 games this season. It didn't feel like they, you know, Walker's super strength, right? Is that incredible speed in defending defensive transitions and actually in Terraza we saw in the first half on a few occasions when Jekko was the sort of final man making that run in behind and just didn't have the legs really on any of the City defenders. I also think it was City being deliberately cautious. Guardiola in these big games these days is very conservative. They weren't really creating overloads in any particular area of the pitch. But yeah, in possession I think they did relatively

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