Both Inter and Bayern Munich have enjoyed a season of great domestic achievement, but as the two colossal clubs move toward the final of the Champions League – the undoubted highlight of the European footballing calendar – both stand on the brink of a significant treble.
Unique success will not just lay at the feet of the players of each squad. Coaches Jose Mourinho and Louis van Gaal, who are student and mentor in that order, can both join a best group of trainers who have guided two dissimilar teams to success in the most memorable of club competitions. Put quite simply, history is on the line in Madrid, appropriately the city most closely associated with the European Cup.
Inter have been the leading force in Serie A since the middle part of the 2000s, but in spite of preeminence in one of the continent’s toughest leagues, continental success has wholly escaped the Nerazzurri over the route of almost 50 years. Back-to-back European Cup victories in 1964 and 1965 are relics of a past age, and ‘the Big Eared Cup’ is preferred more than any other at La Pinetina.
With the Serie A circlet and the Coppa Italia previously safely on display in Inter’s growing trophy cupboard, all that remains to cap a extraordinary season is a win on Saturday.
The trail to the final has not been simple for the Beneamata. rutted against Barcelona in the group stages, Mourinho’s men needed a final day achievement over Rubin Kazan to see off the Russian champions and Dynamo Kyiv to maintain the second qualifying berth from a potentially ill at ease pool.
It was in the knockout stages where Inter truthfully began to thrive. A meeting with former club Chelsea provided Mourinho with a chance to showcase the Italian side’s title winning qualifications, with a 2-1 home accomplishment followed up by a textbook 1-0 triumph in London. CSKA Moscow provided obstinate but eventually powerless opposition in the quarter-finals as the Nerazzurri recorded a couple of 1-0 victories, before a rematch with Barcelona.
After falling 1-0 down in the opening leg, it seemed a case of business as customary for the reigning champions, but Inter graveled their teeth and raised their height to claim a unforgettable 3-1 victory at San Siro. The second leg at Camp Nou proved to be a planned master class from Mourinho and his Beneamata squad. Only in the closing stages of the match did Barca truthfully intimidate to turn over the two goal shortfall, but the Catalans’ luminous attacking unit couldn’t fathom a method by which to break down ten-man Inter twice.
PREDICTION
Inter Milan 3-0 Bayern Munich
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