City’s previous meetings with Inter | OneFootball

City’s meeting with Inter in Hong Kong this summer will undoubtedly stir up memories of 2023.

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We face the Nerazzurri at the Hong Kong Stadium on Saturday 1 August as part of our preparations for the 2026/27 season.

And while matches such as this are all about looking to the future and the prospects for the coming campaign, this will also be an opportunity to remember perhaps our greatest night in our 132-year history.

When the two sides do get together in east Asia, it will be just over three years since we met at the westernmost tip of the same continent.

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City’s previous matches in Hong Kong

Istanbul is unique in that it spreads over two continents, with the Bosphorus river that dissects it marking the split between Europe and Asia.

And that was the setting for the 2023 Champions League final on 10 June 2023.

It was the first ever competitive meeting between the sides and on the grandest stage available in club football, ensuring our histories will forever be intertwined.

City were magnificent en route to the final, swatting aside Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, City went into the game as favourites.

Even with the confidence that brings, the nerves inside the Ataturk Stadium were palpable ahead of kick-off and once the game got going, as you’d expect when a first-ever Champions League and a European Treble are on the line.

We dominated possession throughout the game without ever getting to our free-flowing best, while Ederson had to make several interventions as Inter leapt onto any lapse in concentration.

However, when Manuel Akanji set Bernardo free down the right and the Portuguese playmaker’s cross was deflected back towards the edge of the box, Rodri was the calmest man in all of Europe as he stepped up and sidefooted it home.

It sparked wild celebrations from the players, the bench and the thousands of Blues filling one end of the stadium.

Focus was required to see out the job, with Ederson again pulling off some stunning stops right up to the final whistle, when once again, everyone of a City persuasion could let loose.

The two sides met again in the very first matchday of the 2024/25 campaign as a new era of the Champions League came into force, with the current league phase model implemented.

It was decidedly less dramatic that night, with two stubborn defences holding out for a 0-0 draw.

There’s since been plenty of change both in Manchester and Milan, and there’ll likely never be celebrations to match those after the June 2023 final, but coming up against Inter will always take City fans back to that night.

Here’s hoping an entertaining fixture in Hong Kong follows…