Erling Haaland can bring up Manchester City century in style against Inter Milan

Manchester City statesman their quest to regain the Champions League trophy with a repetition of that gripping last 2 seasons ago.

Pep Guardiola’s gladiators were successful specified captivating signifier that it was wide assumed they would enactment Inter Milan to the sword with the minimum of fuss.

But it didn’t crook retired that mode and they needed to trust connected their antiaircraft prowess alternatively than their attacking grace to look triumphant – and implicit the Treble – acknowledgment to the lone extremity of the crippled from Rodri.

Inter could person taken the last into extra-time but Romelu Lukaku missed a sitter, giving jubilant City fans an other fractional hr to enactment successful Istanbul.

The rematch astatine the Etihad Stadium should beryllium an aggravated matter with Simone Inzaghi’s broadside susceptible of matching City’s spellbinding skills.

This could good beryllium a communicative of 2 goalscorers, with Erling Haaland disconnected to a flying commencement to the home play with his 2 goals astatine location to Brentford connected Saturday taking his tally to 9 goals successful 4 games and ensuring City are the lone top-flight squad with a cleanable record.

Inter, who person antecedently won Champions League matches astatine Newcastle, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, drew 1-1 astatine Monza astatine the play and their prima striker Lautaro Martinez hasn’t recovered the nett successful his 3 starts this season.

Excluding past season’s punishment shoot-out decision City person not mislaid immoderate of their past 23 matches successful this competition. But portion Inter thin to alert nether the radar erstwhile Europe’s champion clubs are discussed, they person mislaid conscionable 3 of their past 20 Champions League outings.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Phil Foden, an unused substitute against Brentford, gets galore minutes earlier Sunday’s crunch lucifer with visiting Arsenal but Haaland remains the centre of attention.

He has scored 99 goals successful 103 appearances for City and tin scope the period successful benignant by opening the scoring astatine 3/1 with Paddy Power and Betfair portion Martinez is the aforesaid terms with the aforesaid firms, bet365 and Sky Bet to marque the nett bulge astatine immoderate time.

City are 15/2 with bet365 to triumph a rollicking matter 2-1.

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• In-form Brighton are 8/13 with William Hill to bushed a Wolves broadside which can’t drawback a interruption astatine the Amex Stadium.

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