Image: Pep Guardiola with the Champions League trophy following Man City's win 'Winning this competition and the treble is so difficult, and that is why today is not important the way. 'The momentum started winning the Premier League, then the FA Cup, and now we finish here,' he added.

Even when we make mistakes, we have the feeling we are solid.' We have four central defenders, proper defenders. I think it was written in the stars this season that it belonged to us and we did it.'Īsked what was different about this team after years of near misses, Guardiola said: 'I think we defended a little bit better in the box. 'At the end, Ederson, they mis-hit it, they could draw, and then maybe Phil could score the second one. We adjusted some things but you have to be lucky in this competition. I said at half-time, last time, in Porto, we were 1-0 down, now it is 0-0. 'We could not find the free man, John Stones. 'The first half we were so anxious,' Guardiola told BT Sport. We feel very fortunate that it was ours.' Guardiola: Written in the stars 'One goal made the difference as it does many times in finals. That is what we did but still it was probably a 50-50 game. Even though we had a couple of good chances we knew we had to do better in the second half. 'We were not at our best in the first half of the game,' agreed Ilkay Gundogan. The way they defended and counter-attacked was unbelievable.' Tactically, their head coach Simone Inzaghi had his team set up perfectly. It was credit to Inter that City were made to look less than their best. You cannot expect to play how we normally play. I scored a goal, unbelievable,' said the Spain international.

'I said to myself I had to overcome the situation, the mentality. I am so happy.' Rodri, the scorer of the game's only goal, expressed a similar sentiment. This is what you work your whole life for. 'To win the treble with this group of players is so special. 'I was awful but I don't care,' Jack Grealish told BT Sport afterwards.

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