This Saturday evening, Manchester City and Chelsea will play a 100% British football Champions League final.

The Mancuniens start favorites, but the Londoners won their last confrontation.

The final kicks off at 9 p.m. 

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It is the most anticipated match on the European stage.

The final of the Champions League opposes this Saturday evening at 9 p.m. the two English teams of Manchester City and Chelsea, in Porto.

The Citizens, impressive in the league, are favorites to win their first European title.

In front of them, the Chelsea Blues, led by former PSG coach Thomas Tuchel, will try to foil the predictions to clinch a second success in C1.

Overview of the main questions surrounding this match.

You can listen to the Champions League final live on Europe 1, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

What are the stakes of this final?

Manchester City-Chelsea is an unprecedented poster in the Champions League final.

For the third time in the history of the competition, two English clubs find themselves at the top of Europe.

Manchester City are playing their first final and are therefore looking for a consecration at European level, while the London club Chelsea can win the cup with the big ears a second time.

A sporting and economic stake: the winning club will receive 19 million euros, against 15 for the vice-champion of Europe.

Will there be spectators in the stands?

Yes.

UEFA, the body of European football, confirmed this on May 13: 16,500 spectators will be able to attend the Champions League final.

Scheduled first in Turkey, in Istanbul, the meeting was relocated to Porto to allow British supporters to travel more easily due to the health context.

They will be 6,000 from each team to come and support their club in the stands.

The last tickets have been reserved for the general public and for invitations.

Can Manchester City win their first European title?

The Mancunian club has in any case the favor of the forecasts.

Pep Guardiola's men flew over the English league this year to clinch a sixth Premier League title, the fourth since 2012. On the European scene, the club notably defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals thanks to two wins (2-1, 2-0).

The Citizens count on a formidable workforce and a fiery attack (Kevin De Bruyne, Riyad Mahrez…) to reach their end.

However, they lost in the last confrontation with their opponents in the evening, at home in the league on May 8 (1-2).

The final of this Saturday evening therefore remains uncertain.

Revenge for ex-Parisians?

German coach Thomas Tuchel and Brazilian defender Thiago Silva were at PSG last year, in the Champions League final lost against Bayern Munich (0-1).

The two sidekicks then rebounded in Chelsea and will play a second final in a row.

If the German coach wins this evening, it will be a revenge for the one who was thanked at the end of December by the Parisian leaders.

For the Brazilian, also sacked last summer when he wanted to stay in the capital club, a victory would also be symbolic after being so often criticized at PSG.

For this, it will be necessary to thwart the plans of the Spanish tactician Pep Guardiola, who has not won the Champions League since 2011 with FC Barcelona.

Will there be French people on the lawn?

Yes, and one of them is almost certain to play the leading roles: Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kanté, selected for the next Euro, is coming out of a remarkable new season. He was notably elected twice man of the match in the semi-finals of the Champions League against Real Madrid (1-1, 2-0). The world champion is just recovering from a groin injury, but there is no doubt that Thomas Tuchel is counting on his contribution to the midfield. Also in Didier Deschamps' 26, French defender Kurt Zouma has a chance to start the meeting. As for striker Olivier Giroud, he should start the final on the bench due to his low playing time.

In Manchester City, the only tricolor Benjamin Mendy has little hope of starting the meeting on the lawn, he who has been content with a replacement status for months. Aymeric Laporte, often titular in the central defense of the Citizens, has recently chosen to represent Spain with whom he will play Euro 2020.