Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne Out To Cement His Legacy In Champions League Showdown

Kevin De Bruyne does not remember much of his first Champions League final. At the hour mark, Chelsea’s Antonio Rudiger body-checked the Belgian, who had to leave the field with a concussion and a fractured nose and eye socket. He departed in tears and does not remember the way to the hospital. The match he had so looked forward to ended in tragedy with Chelsea prevailing through a goal by Kai Havertz. On Saturday against Inter Milan and his compatriot Romelu Lukaku, however, he gets a new chance at winning Europe’s most coveted prize.

“You don’t get to the final of the Champions League if you are not top,” said De Bruyne. ”They did win two prizes in Italy and toward the end of the season they won just about every game they’ve played. They have their fixed system, their typical style and what they do on the field, they do very well. So I don’t have the feeling that anyone with us thinks it will be an easy game. It’s a final and so it starts fifty-fifty in terms of chances.”