Sylvinho talks about the Champions League final: Pep is a genius, but Inter is a deadly team

2023-05-31 17:20:08Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Sylvinho talks about the Champions League final: Pep is a genius, but Inter is a
Sylvinho

A Champions League won with Guardiola on the bench at Barcelona; one season as a Manchester City player and two seasons as Roberto Mancini's assistant at Inter. In short, no one is looking forward to the Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan more than Sylvinho on June 10.

"Unfortunately, I won't be able to go to Istanbul", says the Brazilian, who is now in charge of the Albanian national team. However, he is already preparing to experience that night in front of the TV. "It will be a great match between two teams that play a different kind of football," he explains to "Gianlucadimarzio.com".

Reaching the Champions League final is not something that happens every day. Both teams have had a crazy run. Perhaps we forget that Inter topped a group with Bayern Munich and Barcelona, ​​two teams that won their respective championships. And then the semi-final derby. In short: not insignificant match".

But of course there are also two philosophies of the game in comparison: "Guardiola has been giving football lessons to City for years and adds something new every season. Even the players have grown a lot with him. While Inter is a deadly team. It defends with 3-5-2, but there are physically strong players to close the spaces and restart with a quality transition.

This is all; Inter has a reaction team. I am convinced that this match will be difficult for Manchester City as well. I don't think that Inter play only with long balls and 'pedaling'. Zikaltri start well and can do bad".

If you say Manchester City, then Sylvinho immediately opens the memory drawer:

"When we finished in fifth place and therefore out of the Champions League, behind Tottenham, the president went into the dressing room after the last game and spoke. We expected something strong, but no: he told us we had done very well. There I realized that he was laying the foundations to open a winning cycle. We footballers were destroyed, but I understood that that team would become great".

It was 2010 and since then the first titles of the new Manchester City would come. What is missing, however, is the Champions League:

"There is no secret to winning it, there is no recipe. Anyone can win in 90 minutes, that's the beauty of football: you play 11 against 11 and the rest follows itself."

He won the Champions League in the 2008-2009 season, that of Barcelona's treble:

"We won the treble with Pep, who gave us a lot in terms of ideas. Today he is a very different coach, he also works hard in the defense phase. For me, Guardiola is a football genius".


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