Manchester City and Chelsea in a crash to win All English Champions League Final in Porto.

Manchester City and Pep Guardiola side are favourites to lift the UEFA Champions League this Saturday

The finalists were among the 12 clubs that announced their breakaway from the European Super League in April but were also among the first to withdraw in the face of fan anger — those supporters are now hoping to celebrate European glory in Portugal this Saturday.

This is the third final of Europe’s elite club competition to be played between two Premier League sides, and the second in just three seasons.

2008: Manchester United 1-1 (6-5 pens) Chelsea

2019: Liverpool 2-0 Tottenham

Chelsea and City haven’t met since 1986 in the short-lived Full Members Cup finals, when the London club won 5-4 at Wembley.

Manchester City and Chelsea have now won seven of the last 10 Premier League titles after Roman Abramovich and Abu Dhabi took over in 2003, 2008.

Chelsea have the experience over Manchester city having beaten Bayern Munich on penalties in the 2012 final. They have also won the Europa League twice since then.

Manchester City has never made it this far after 13 years of an investment by the owners of the club but are finally here for the first time in their history

“When you reach the final of the Champions League you finish part of the process that started five years ago,” said Guardiola on Friday.

After romping to the Premier League title, their third in four seasons, and having also won the League Cup, a City side starring the likes of Kevin De Bruyne and Ruben Dias are the clear favourites at the Estadio do Dragao.

“We as players understand the magnitude of the game,” playmaker De Bruyne said on Friday. “If you win you’re a hero, if you lose you’re almost a failure.”

Chelsea have been transformed since Tuchel replaced Frank Lampard as coach in January, even if they did finish the domestic season with three defeats in four games including the FA Cup final against Leicester City.

They have beaten City twice in the last six weeks, first in the Cup semi-final and then in Manchester in the league.

“They are maybe in the moment the strongest team in Europe and maybe the world. They have built a huge gap between them and us in the league but we closed the gap for 90 minutes at Wembley and away at City and this is what we want to do tomorrow,” Tuchel said on Friday.

Source: Tribune.com